Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Latin American & Latino Studies, “Inhabiting the Transit: Migrant Spatial Struggles from Global South America to the U.S.”
Faculty Fellow Lecture Series
January 20, 2026
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, 153 Behavioral Sciences Building
Address
1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Download iCal FileDr. Soledad Álvarez Velasco is a social anthropologist and human geographer analyzing the interrelationship between mobility, control, and spatial transformations across the Americas. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from King’s College London. Before joining the University of Illinois Chicago in January 2023 as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Latin American and Latino Studies, she was an Assistant Professor at Heidelberg University. She is the author of Frontera sur chiapaneca: El muro humano de la violencia (Mexico: CIESAS-UIA, 2016) and co-editor of Luchas Migrantes en Tiempos Pandémicos y de Crisis (Puerto Rico: Editorial Educación Emergente, 2025). Her research has appeared in Geopolitics, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Studies in Social Justice, Antipode, Migration and Society, and the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She co-founded and co-coordinated the transnational digital projects (Im)Mobilities in the Americas (2020) and Children on the Move: An Ethnographic Mosaic of the Americas, funded by the National Geographic Society (2019).
Date posted
Sep 5, 2025
Date updated
Dec 4, 2025