Disability and citizenship

Directors

Florencia Herrera

Florencia Herrera

Director
florencia.herrera@udp.cl

Florencia is a sociologist from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad de Barcelona. She has been working as an associate professor at the School of Sociology at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile since 2010. Her teaching focuses on methodologies for social research, especially qualitative methods, in both undergraduate and graduate programs.

Her areas of interest are related to parenthood -including non-hegemonic forms such as same-sex parenting, assisted reproduction, and adoption-, disability, and qualitative methodologies. Her experience as a researcher and mother with visual impairment has led her to investigate the parental experiences of people with disabilities in Chile (Fondecyt Regular DisPar Project 1210575). She is also an associate researcher at the MICARE Millennium Institute.

Florencia has published 5 children’s books that deal with topics related to citizenship, disability, inclusion, and gender. In 2019, she won the Colibrí Medal from IBBY in Chile in the Children’s Fiction category for the book “Adela and the Missing Socks” (illustrated by Bernardita Ojeda) published by Amanuta.