Andrea is a feminist researcher focusing on women’s rights in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador and the Andean region. Her work aims to understand how women interact with laws, projects, and institutions. She is interested in how women react, adapt, and/or normalise behaviours to survive, endure or disrupt hierarchical and subordinative power structures.

Andrea's research follows a feminist and decolonial epistemology and relies on ethnographic and arts-based research methods.

She has an MSc in Latin American Development and a PhD in Gender and Development from King’s College London. Before working as an academic, Andrea worked as a journalist in Ecuador (2009-2016). Andrea previously worked at King's as a Lecturer in International Relations and Gender Education.

Publications:

Espinoza Carvajal, A. (2021) ‘COVID-19 and the Limitations of Official Responses to Gender-

Based Violence in Latin America: Evidence from Ecuador.’ Bulletin of Latin America Research, Special Issue on Covid in Latin America and the Caribbean

Espinoza Carvajal, A., Medina Cordova, L. ‘Building on Transnational Indigeneity: Representations of Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Literature and Photography’. (Submitted for the edited volume Indigenous Studies in and of Latin America, edited by Dr Tracy Devine Guzmán, University of Miami)

Research output:

Espinoza Carvajal, A., Diaz Arcos, D., Sefla, N. (2021) ‘Resistencias. Lugares, Tiempos y Espacios.’ Arts Cabinet [Online]

Espinoza Carvajal, A., Diaz Arcos, D., Sefla, N. (2021) ‘Historias que nos cuentan. Historias que nos contamos.’ Arts Cabinet [Online]

Espinoza Carvajal, A., Diaz Arcos, D., Sefla, N. (2020) ‘Before the Image.’ Arts Cabinet [Online]

Espinoza Carvajal, A. (2018) Hybridity and Identity. Research output: Non textual form– Photographic exhibition.