Participant Info
- First Name
- Diana
- Last Name
- Sierra Becerra
- Country
- United States
- State
- 21
- dbecerra@smith.edu
- Affiliation
- Smith College
- Website URL
- https://smith.academia.edu/DianaCarolinaSierraBecerra
- Keywords
- Women and gender in twentieth-century Latin America. Social movements and revolutions. Nationalism and neoliberalism. Memory, public history, and museums. Women-of-color, transnational and intersectional feminisms. US imperialism and anti-imperialist movements. Immigration policy, immigrant and worker rights and organizing.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am currently the Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Coordinator in Digital Humanities and Popular Political Education for the project, Putting History in Domestic Workers’ Hands. The project is a collaboration between Smith College and the National Domestic Workers Alliance. In 2020, I will begin my position as an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
From 2015 to late 2018, I worked as a labor and immigrant rights organizer at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center.
My book manuscript, tentatively titled Insurgent Butterflies: Gender and Revolution in El Salvador, documents the feminist praxis that working-class and peasant women developed within labor and armed movements during the late 20th century.
- Recent Publications
- “For Our Total Emancipation: The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in Insurgent El Salvador, 1977-1987.” InMaking the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left, edited by Kevin A. Young. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Media Coverage
- Country Focus
- El Salvador, the United States, Colombia
- Expertise by Geography
- Central America, Latin America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 7, 8, 9
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Gender, Migration & Immigration, Museums, Pedagogy, Politics, Public History, Rebellion & Revolution, Women
