The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics is thrilled to announce Ángeles Donoso Macaya‘s appointment as Interim Associate Director while Peter Hitchcock is on leave for the 2025–26 academic year.

Ángeles Donoso Macaya (she/they) is an immigrant feminist scholar and writer from Santiago, Chile, based in New York. She is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at BMCC and affiliated faculty in the PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures and in the Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her teaching interests and writing span Latin American and Caribbean photography theory and history, human rights activism, and counter-archival production during the Latin American Cold War, documentary film, (trans)feminisms in the Southern Cone, migration studies, memory studies, public humanities, and environmental humanities. She has published on these topics in journals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, the US, and the UK. She is the author of the award-winning book The Insubordination of Photography (U Florida Press 2020; 2^nd ed. 2023), translated as La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales 2021); Lanallwe (Tusquets 2023); and archivo imperfecto (Metales Pesados 2023; co-authored with photographer Paz Errázuriz); and co-editor of WSQ´s volume “No estamos a la intemperie: Open Call” (Spring 2025). Her most recent articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Visual in Latin American History (U Texas Press, forthcoming); The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship (2024); Revista Anuario de Historia (2024); The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice (2023); Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies/Travesía (2023); Cold War Camera (Duke UP 2023); and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (2021). Between 2020–2023, she co-led Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory, part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at The Center for the Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center. Ángeles is member of The Social Text Collective and CUNY FSJP (CUNY Faculty and Staff Justice for Palestine). She is co-founder of the creative-research collective somoslacélula.

Welcome, Ángeles!

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