Teaching staff

MARIA RUIZ TORRADO

Knowledge area

Social Anthropology

Department

Philosophy of Values and Social Anthropology

Centre

Faculty of Education, Philosophy and Anthropology

Electronic mail

maria.ruizt@ehu.eus

María Ruiz Torrado is an anthropologist and a doctor in Feminist and Gender Studies (UPV/EHU, 2016). Currently, she is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy of Values and Social Anthropology (UPV/EHU).

After obtaining a bachelor’s in History (UPV/EHU, 2006) and Social and Cultural Anthropology (UPV/EHU, 2008), she completed a master’s in Feminist and Gender Studies (UPV/EHU, 2010). Later, she did her doctorate under the supervision of Mari Luz Esteban, with a Predoctoral Grant (Basque Government, 2013-2016). The result was her doctoral thesis Kartzela genero-erakunde bezala: genero-bereizkeriak, erresistentzia-praktikak eta agentzia Euskal Herrian espetxeratutako emakumeen artean (Prison as an gender institution: Gender discriminations, resistance practices and agency amongst women imprisoned in the Basque Country, 2016), in which she addresses the experiences of women imprisoned in the prisons of Araba/Álava, Martutene and Pamplona, emphasising the gender inequalities of incarceration and the resistance practices that women prisoners carry out to face up to these.

She is a member of AFIT (Antropologia Feminista Ikerketa Taldea) and the research networks Red GEISPE and SinRejas.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2150-2045

https://afit-antropologiafeminista.eus/en/taldekideak/maria-ruiz-torrado/