IGU Gender Commission Grant Award Winners 2023
The Commission is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023 IGU Gender and Geography Commission Research and Travel Grant Award, Elybeth Sofia Alcantar and Stefany Paula Álvarez Alvarez. The Commission is pleased to support their participation at the 9th International Conference of Critical Geographies (ICCG) in Mexico City, Mexico from October 23 - 29, 2023. Congratulations to both of you on your research in gender and feminist geography!
Elybeth Sofia Alcantar (she/her/they) is a doctoral student in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin. Although born and raised in San Diego, California, Elybeth’s family are Mixteco (Ñuu Savi) migrants from the municipality of San Mateo Etlatongo. Elybeth uses ethnographic methodologies, story mapping, testimonios, and photography to demonstrate the current political and ecological landscape of the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, Mexico as well as the geographies of displacement from the region. Her projects have been featured in museum installations, such as Arte Américas’s exhibit, “Boom, Oaxaca,” in Fresno, California and a forthcoming manuscript will be published in the journal, Latino Studies, later this year.
Website: https://www.elybethalcantar.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elybethalcantar
Stefany Paula Álvarez Alvarez (Temuco, Chile) es Geógrafa titulada por la Universidad Católica de Temuco (2015); Máster en Estudios de Mujeres, Género y Ciudadanía por la Universidad de Barcelona (2022) y actualmente es Doctoranda en Geografía en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2022-2023). Sus postgrados los realizó gracias al financiamiento del programa Becas Chile para Máster (2019) y Doctorado en el extranjero (2022). En el área profesional, se ha desempeñado como docente en universidades regionales de La Araucanía, además de trabajar en proyectos de investigación con financiamiento de FONDECYT, FONDART, WWF, FONDEF y otras instituciones de investigación y desarrollo. En el ámbito científico, fue premiada en el XVII Encuentro de Geógrafos de América Latina en Ecuador (2019) y por el Instituto Geográfico Militar (2022) en la categoría poster científico. La Corporación +Mujeres líderes en La Araucanía (2022) le brindo un reconocimiento en la categoría Ciencia, Innovación y Tecnología. La línea de investigación desarrollada en sus años de estudios se enfoca en la comprensión territorial, género y mujeres, interculturalidad e interseccionalidad; geoenseñanzas y divulgación científica a través de diferentes estrategias formativas como Sistemas de Información Geográfica online, charlas y debates, exposición en seminarios y congresos nacionales e internacionales. Actualmente vive en Catalunya.
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Stefany Paula Álvarez Alvarez (Temuco, Chile) graduated from the Catholic University of Temuco (2015). She has a master's degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies from the University of Barcelona (2022) and is currently a PhD candidate in Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2022-2023). Her postgraduate studies were financed by the Chile Scholarships program for Masters (2019) and Doctorates abroad (2022). Stefany has worked as a professor at regional universities in La Araucanía, in addition to working on research projects financed by FONDECYT, FONDART, WWF, FONDEF, and other research and development institutions. She received awards at the XVII Meeting of Latin American Geographers in Ecuador (2019), the Military Geographic Institute (2022) in the scientific poster category, and the Corporation +Mujeres leaders in La Araucanía (2022) in the Science, Innovation and Technology category. Her research focuses on territorial understanding, gender and women, interculturality and intersectionality, as well as geoteaching and scientific dissemination through different training strategies such as online Geographic Information Systems and presentations at national and international seminars and congresses. She currently lives in Catalonia
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