Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Comparative Politics, International Relations and Gender and Politics
Office: 463 Smith Hall
Biography
Pascha Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware, USA. As an activist-scholar, Bueno-Hansen is involved in several transnational collaborative projects in solidarity with Indigenous women’s and LGBTI resistance struggles in defense of human rights in the Américas. In the Delaware Bay region, she is committed to repairing relations with Lenape and Nanticoke communities. The Spanish edition of her first book, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice (2015), was published in 2020 by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Her current book project Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Interventions in Transitional Justice examines the resistance practices of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Bueno-Hansen has published articles in journals including the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Latino Studies, Hypatia and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. She received the University of Delaware Faculty Senate 2020 Mid-Career Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award and the John and Patricia Cochran Scholar of Inclusive Excellence award 2025-2030.
Recent Publications
“Queering Transitional Justice” The Justice Visions podcast hosted at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. January 30, 2025.
“The Politics of Desire and Peace,” (co-authored with Ahmad Qais Munhazim and Purita Pelayo) International Feminist Journal of Politics. Forthcoming 2025.
“Cisheteronormativity and Transitional Justice,” in Douglas, Lawrence, Meierhenrich, Jens and Hinton, Alexander eds. Oxford Handbook on Transitional Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2025.
“The Heterosexual System Denuded: Ecuador’s Truth Commission” in Schulz, Philipp, Brandon Hamber, and Heleen Touquet ed. Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice. Intersentia. 2024.
“Concluding Thoughts and Calls to Action” (co-authored with Heleen Touquet, Philipp Schulz, José Fernando Serrano-Amaya, Katherine Fobear, and Brandon Hamber) in Schulz, Philipp, Brandon Hamber, and Heleen Touquet ed. Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice. Intersentia. 2024.
