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Dr. Diana Carolina García Gómez

Dr. Diana Carolina Garcia Gomez smiling with shoulder length straight black hair wearing a black blazer over a red blouse
Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies
Burrill Office Complex, Room 101G
Pronouns
she/her/hers

BS, Universidad Javeriana (COL) 
MA, University of Copenhagen (DK) 
PhD, Rutgers University (USA)

Diana's work emphasizes children's and youth's self-constructions as political subjects by focusing on their participation in peacebuilding through collective memory and peace education processes. Her multidisciplinary approach to the Colombian post-accord context draws from Childhood Studies, Memory Studies, and Political Theory. She combines Latin-American scholarship, decolonial and postcolonial theories, and ethnographic methods. She has published work about children's representation in the Colombian Truth Commission; children's views on Colombian lived citizenship; about the coloniality of temporality in relation to childhood studies by focusing on youth activism in collective memory; and on the status as political actors of Colombian child soldiers. Diana is also a member of the transnational research group Children, Media and Parenting. The group studies the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in family relations by analyzing media usage in households in 7 countries, among them Colombia.

Area of Expertise

Childhood Studies, Memory Studies, Youth Studies, Media Studies, Transitional Justice, and Post-Conflict studies