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Prof Mónica Moreno Figueroa

Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa is a Black-mestiza, Mexican-British, woman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge.

Her research focusses on the intersectional lived experience of ‘race’ and racism in Mexico and Latin America; antiracism and academic-based impact; feminist theory, intersectionality and racism. She is an expert in qualitative research methods, visual methodologies and thrives in interdisciplinary collaborations.

Mónica is currently leading the development of a new research institute on Global Race, Racism and Anti-Racism in the Department of Sociology, and has secured seed funding from the W.K.K. Foundation.

Mónica has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career fellowship 2022-23 for the project: “Internalised Oppression, Defensiveness and Resentment”.  Her other latest research projects are: a project on blackness, representation and women’s economic trajectories in the Costa Chica in Mexico; a British Academy funded project on Institutional Racism in Oaxaca, Mexico; and a recently-completed large ESRC-funded research project, which she directed (together with Prof Peter Wade), Latin American Anti-racism in a Post-Racial Age, LAPORA, on antiracist practices and discourses in Latin America, comparing experiences in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. 

A book edited with Peter Wade, Against racism: organizing for social change in Latin America (Pittsburgh University Press) was published in March 2022, Portuguese and Spanish translations have been published in 2023.

Mónica is an award-winning teacher. She has lectured at Newcastle, Princeton and Nottingham Universities, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck College, and El Colegio de Mexico.

Mónica has been Chair of the Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous People’s section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2014-16).

She has recently joint the editorial team of Book Series 21st Century Standpoints for Policy Press / Bristol University Press. She is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies and Journal of Latin American Studies

Mónica co-leads the Decolonise Sociology Working Group and with Dr Ella McPherson she runs the End Everyday Racism project, a web-based platform to report and monitor racism in higher education.

From 2017-2021 she was the University of Cambridge Race Equality Co-Champion.

From 2019-2022 Mónica was a member of the University of Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Advisory Board, which launched in Sept 2022 the Legacies of Enslavement Enquiry.

Since 2010, alongside Emiko Saldívar and Judith Bautista, Mónica has co-led the Collective for the Elimination of Racism in Mexico, COPERA, dedicated to making racism public.

Job Title:
Professor in Sociology, Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College
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Supervisor availability:
Mónica would normally be available to supervise students interested in exploring the lived experience of ‘race’ and racism; racism and antiracism in Latin America; intersectionality, feminist theory and the interconnections between beauty, emotions & race

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