PhD Thesis
PhD Supervisor: Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff
Expected completion date: 2022
Profile
I am a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology and a Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. My dissertation project investigates the Latin-American indigenous peoples’ participation within some the United Nations mechanisms in Geneva, New York and Peru. I focus on the Peruvian indigenous peoples’ participation. Before starting my PhD, I worked in the Peruvian Ministry of Culture in Cusco, and as a researcher in the field of legal pluralism. Furthermore, I was a lecturer (2014-2016) in Anthropology at the Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco, in Cusco, Peru. I hold a bachelor's degree (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and a master's degree (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, Swiss Excellency Scholarship), both in Anthropology.
Country of origin: Peru
Research Interests
- Indigenous peoples
- United Nations
- Human Rights
- Institutional Ethnography
- Legal Pluralism
- Anthropology of Law
- Peru
- International UN settings (Geneva, Switzerland; New York, United States of America)
Relevant Publications and Works
Saco Chung, Urpi (2020). ‘Occupying and Expanding (Un)Expected Categories: Ways of Being and Becoming Indigenous Within the United Nations System’. Alternautas. Vol.7 – Issue 1. ISSN - 2057-4924.
Academic Work Experience
Teaching Experience
- Lecturer (2014-2016) in Anthropology at the Universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco, in Cusco, Peru.
- Department of Anthropology and Sociology - Graduate Institute Geneva:
Teaching Assistant (2016- 2021) for the following courses:
Fall 2016: Sept 2016 - Feb 2017
ANSO066: Anthropologie francophone: De Durkheim à Bourdieu en passant par Foucault
ANSO005: Inégalités de genre, développement et théories féministes postcoloniales
ANSO067: Race and Ethnic Relations in Comparative Perspective
Spring 2017: Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
ANSO077: Social Stratification: Views from Latin America
ANSO074: Les structures anthropologiques du religieux: religions, sorcelleries et conversions
Fall 2017: Sept 2017 - Feb 2018
ANSO084: Des femmes, des biens et des terres: parenté et transmission
ANSO095: Inégalités de genre, développement et théories féministes décoloniales
Spring 2018: Feb 2018 - Sept 2018 - Department of Interdisciplinary Masters
DE139: Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice
Fall 2018: Sept 2018 - Feb 2019 - Department of Anthropology and Sociology
ANSO037: Research Design and Proposal Writing in the Social Sciences
ANSO106: Gender and Terrorism
Fall 2019: Sept 2019 - Feb 2020 - Department of Interdisciplinary Masters
DE139: Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice
Spring 2020: Feb 2020 - August 2020
MINT059: Image and Violence
MINT126: Anthropology of Development Projects
Fall 2020: Sept 2020 - Feb 2021
DE139: Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
SNF Doc.Mobility grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation