Maria Ruiz Torrado

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MARÍA RUIZ TORRADO (Irún, 1984) 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 (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.

Beyond her doctoral thesis, her first steps in the field of Feminist Anthropology were as co-author of the following research works: “La aportación de las mujeres a la Historia de Tolosa” (Tolosa Town Council, 2008-2009), “Mujeres en Irún (1931-1992): etnografía de sus memorias” (Irún Town Council, 2009-2011) and “Mujeres ex-presas: vulnerabilidad y autonomía” (Emakunde, 2011-2012).

She is a member of the research networks Red GEISPE and SinRejas, as well as the ANKULEGI Anthropology Association.