Grazzia Grimaldi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology
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Education
Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A. in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
B.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology, Universidad de El Salvador (Summa Cum Laude).
Selected Publications and Activities
“Prison Bars Will Not Silence the Truth” NACLA Report on the Americas. Vol. 57 (2): 150-156. Grimaldi, Grazzia & López, Yanci, 2025.
"Del no saber al saber (y viceversa): inseguridad e intimidad en El Salvador de la posguerra." Alteridades 32, no. 63 (2022): 13-25. Grimaldi, Grazzia, and Ellen Moodie.
"Violencia visible e invisible en la vida cotidiana de Mejicanos, San Salvador." Revista Humanidades 6 (2018). Alvarez, Yessenia, and Grazzia Grimaldi.
Book chapter:
“Los Siempre Sospechosos de Todo: Towards a Feminist and Abolitionist Perspective on El Salvador’s Carceral Politics” in Abolitionist Dialogues in Central American Studies edited by Katy Maldonado Domínguez and Alejandro Villalpando, n.p press (Forthcoming)
“Figuras clandestinas de intimidad en la violencia. Los pesos de la democratización en la posguerra salvadoreña” en Morar y narrar al ras de la ciudad violenta. Experiencias salvadoreñas y guatemaltecas, Francisco Rodolfo González y Yuri Arón Escamilla (eds). Zamora: El Colegio de Michoacán, 2023.
Public Scholarship:
“The Family’s Movement: In Defense of the Life of Imprisoned People Under State of Emergency in El Salvador.” The Abolitionist Vol. 43. Grimaldi, Grazzia & López, Yanci.
“Response to David Scott’s Lecture: A Moral and Reparatory History of New World Slavery”. In Kritik, Blog of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory. March 27, 2020.
Teaching and Research Interests
Sociocultural Anthropology; Carceral Studies; Abolition and Anti-Punitivism; Feminist Theories and Methods; Family and Intimacy; Legal Anthropology: Social Movements and Justice; Post-Conflict, Democratization and Authoritarian Politics; El Salvador and Central America.
Courses and Seminars
ANTH 027C.Ethnographies of Contemporary Latin America
ANTH 037E. Carceral States in Central America
