Maria Sonderéguer Bio

Maria Sonderéguer has a B.A in Literature form the University of Buenos Aires and received a D.E.A (Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies) in Latin American Studies from the University of Sorbonne in Paris.  She is a full Professor and Investigator at the Center for Studies in History, Culture and Memory at the National University of Quilmes and a member of the Academic Committee for the Masters in Human Rights and Democratization for Latin America (within the International Center of Political Studies at the National University of San Martín).  She is also associated with the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC) and is a Graduate Professor at various Argentine universities.  Previously, she was the Director of the Human Rights Center “Emilio Mignone” at the National University of Quilmes and is currently the Co-Director of the Human Rights Collection of the UNQ Editorial and directs the Memory, Gender and Human Rights Observatory at the same university.  She has previously worked with Service Peace and Justice (SERPAJ) and is currently a Professor associated with the Center for Peace and Human Rights located in the Political Science Department of the University of Buenos Aires.  She acted as an expert and co-editor of the National Plan Against Argentine Discrimination, a consultant on human rights themes with the Ministry of Education, and was the National Director of Human Rights Training for the National Ministry of Human Rights.  She led investigations about: Crisis and Argentine Culture of the 1970s; The Human Rights Movement in Argentina between 1973 to 1976; History of the Life of the Worker’s Movement: A politics of Memory; Memory and Narrativization of Identity: The Century of the Cacerolazos; Sexual Violence and Gender Violence in State Terrorism; Memory, Violence and Gender in Recent Argentine History, and other Investigations.  Her results have been disseminated in numerous published articles in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, France, Germany and the United States. Her latest books are: Crisis (1973-1976). Del Intelectual comprometido al intelectual revolucionario, redited in 2010 and Género y Poder: violencias de género en conflictos armados y contextos represivos, published in 2012.