Education:

• PhD, Vanderbilt University (2015)
• Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of South Florida (2010)
• MA, University of South Florida (2009)
• BA, University of North Florida (2006)

About:

Andrea Pitts (they/them/elle en español) is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator whose publications and pedagogy focus on carceral medicine and radical health activism, Latin American and U.S. Latina/x feminisms, prison and police abolition, queer migration studies, critical transgender politics, and disability justice. They are author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021), and co-editor of Trans Philosophy (2024), Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance (2020), and Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019). Their current book project Latina/x Abolitionist Feminisms: Incarceration, Agency, and Coalitional Politics examines the philosophical contributions made by U.S Latina/x activists and scholars critiquing state violence, prisons, and policing from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Research Areas:

Latin American and U.S. Latinx feminisms, critical prison studies, radical health activism, queer of color critique, transgender studies, and disability justice

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By Appointment

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