Ailynn Torres (summer term 2021 and winter term 2021/22)
Ailynn Torres Santana is a postdoctoral fellow at the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter Strategies (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation). Her research project analyses the authoritarian and conservative tide in Latin American through a feminist lens. The research project proposes a regional and globally connected analysis of three fields: government measures, religious fundamentalisms, and feminist responses. Ailynn is a social scientist that has worked as a social researcher and has been a visiting professor at the University of Havana (2006–2012), FLACSO Ecuador (2016–2018, 2020), the University of Barcelona (2015, 2018), and other universities. She has been visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts (2018) and Harvard University (2019). Ailynn is a member of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s regional project “The Future Is Feminist.”