Fellow
Professor, Department of Law - CIDE México
Tatiana Alfonso Sierra is a socio-legal scholar whose research examines the relationship between law and social inequality. She focuses in particular on how legal and political institutions shape the distribution of resources between actors in unequal social positions. Trained as both a lawyer and a psychologist at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, she holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a researcher at CIDE in Mexico City, where she teaches courses on intersectional perspectives on human rights violations and on the rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples and communities. Her work covers racial discrimination and human rights, social movements and legal change, structural inequalities in the administration of justice, and the land rights of Indigenous, Afro-descendant and peasant communities in Latin America. She co-edited the Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America (Routledge, 2019) with Rachel Sieder and Karina Ansolabehere. She has also advised organisations such as the Inter-American Development Bank and Global Land Alliance on land tenure and rural development. She is part of the PluriLand project and a member of the Mexico chapter of the Red ALAS network.
Website:
https://www.redalas.net/integrantes/tatiana-alfonso-sierra