PhD student in Political Science International Relations track at Central European University in Vienna. Dissertation's working title: ¿Y sí yo lo encuentro qué? Madres Buscadoras and the transformative potential of ‘La Búsqueda’ as a cosmopraxis for the IR
My interests lie at the intersection of the coloniality of knowledge production, relational ontologies, and feminist IR, with a focus on arts-based praxis and methodologies.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
-Before re-joining the academic world, I was Head of International Affairs Monitoring at the National Women’s Institute in Mexico, where I was in charge of the linkage between grassroots peacebuilding and the 1325 SC Resolution. Promoted the development of the first Iberoamerican Women Mediators Network, and built an academic network on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.
-In 2017 I co-founded Org Genera A.C., NGO focused on dismantling female isolation through feminist support networks, based in Mexico. We delivered workshops, facilitated dialogue spaces, and conducted research on the impacts of female isolation and how to eradicate it. We are specialists in collecting data through participative methods on social networks.
-Since 2016 I have been part of an ongoing international research cluster funded by the National Science Foundation on the sociology of epidemics and knowledge production, where I have designed and conducted research and published academic articles on the subject (Mexico and UK hubs).
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
-Shrum, W., Aggrey, J., Campos, A., Pamplona da Costa, J., Joseph, J., Kreimer, P., Kroeger, R., Rodriguez Medina, L., Miller, P, Palackal, A., Pandal de la Peza, A., & Traore, A. (2020) Who’s afraid of Ebola? Epidemic fires and locative fears in the Information Age. Social Studies of Science, 1-21.
-Rodríguez Medina, L. Pandal de la Peza, A. & Shum, W. (2018) Sobre la confianza en la ciencia y la política: el brote de zika en México, 2016-2018 (On trust in science and politics: the outbreak of zika in Mexico, 2016-2018) Sociológica Mexico.
BOOK CHAPTERS
-2024, Sachseder, J. Pandal de la Peza, A. The Coloniality of Non-Knowledge in the WPS Agenda: Studying Strategic Ignorance in Mexico’s National Action Plan, forthcoming in Feminist Security Studies in the Americas: pushing the fronteras. Palgrave McMillan.
-2025, Rodriguez-Medina, L. Pandal de la Peza, A. Galanakis, L. Living in times of coronavirus: relationships, information and perceptions
during the pandemic in Mexico., forthcoming in Paradox of Precaution: A Comparative Study of Response to COVID-19. Edward Elgar Publishing.
