Pascha Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. As an activist-scholar, Bueno-Hansen is involved in several transnational collaborative projects in solidarity with indigenous women’s and LGBTI resistance struggles in defense of human rights in the Américas. In the Delaware Bay region, she is committed to repairing relations with Lenape and Nanticoke.
The Spanish edition of first book, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice (2015), was published in 2020 by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Her current book project Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes examines the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Bueno-Hansen has published articles in journals including the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Latino Studies, Hypatia, and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
Born in Berkeley California, Bueno-Hansen grew up in an inter-generational family with her Peruvian mother, U.S. born father of Danish descent, and Peruvian grandparents. She is a queer mix heritage Peruvian American person.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Gender and Sexualities Studies
- Transnational, decolonial, indigenous communitarian, intersectional, U.S. women of color and Latin American feminisms
- Latin American and Latino/a/x Studies, hemispheric study of the Americas
- Transitional Justice, Human Rights, Social Movements