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M. Cristina Alcalde

Biography

As a gender and women's studies scholar and anthropologist, Dr. Alcalde's research areas include gender, migration, gender violence, racialization, exclusion, and leadership. She speaks on these topics nationally and internationally. Before joining Miami, Dr. Alcalde was professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Associate Dean of Inclusion and Internationalization at the University of Kentucky, where she also held the Marie Rich Endowed Professorship. Dr. Alcalde joined Miami in 2021 as Vice President for Transformational and Inclusive Excellence, a role she held until the office’s closure in 2025. In that role, she provided an integrated and holistic vision and leadership, using an inclusive excellence framework, to advance and strengthen an inclusive learning, teaching, and workplace environment for ºÚÁÏÉçÇøs, faculty, and staff. In 2025, Dr. Alcalde was awarded a Fulbright International Administrator Award to India. Dr. Alcalde was also selected to participate in the 2025-26 cohort of the AGB Institute for Leadership & Governance in Higher Education.

Research Interests

Gender; gender violence; migration; exclusion; racialization; leadership; Latin America

Selected Publications: Books

2022

• Familia, exclusión, y el racismo de la peruanidad: La tia Eliana. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP.
• #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement. Co-editor, with Paula-Irene Villa. University Press of Kentucky.
• Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education. Co-editor, with Mangala Subramaniam. Purdue University Press.

2018 

• Peruvian Lives Across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

2015

• Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought. Co-editor, with Susan Bordo and Ellen Rosenman. University of California Press.

2014

• La mujer en la violencia: Género, pobreza, y resistencia en el Perú. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. (Spanish edition of The Woman in the Violence)

2010

• The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

2008

• Visión del Perú de académicos peruanos en Estados Unidos (Vision of Peru of Peruvian Academics in the United States). Co-editor, with Joseph Zavala. Lima: Academia Diplomática del Perú.

Selected Publications: Peer-Reviewed Journals

2020

• “Coloniality, Belonging and Indigeneity in Peruvian Migration Narratives.” Latin American, Caribbean, and Ethnic Studies.
  • Honorable Mention, José Maria Arguedas Best 2020 Article Prize, Peru Section, LASA
• “Gender, Autonomy, and Return Migration: Negotiating Street Harassment in Lima, Peru.” Global Networks 20 (1): 25-41.

2019

• “Home and the Limits of Belonging: Homophobia and Return Migration to Peru.”Sexualities 22 (5/6): 916-931.

2016

• “Racializing Undocumented Immigrants in the Age of Colorblindness: Millennials 'Views from Kentucky." Latino Studies 14 (2): 234-257.

2015

• “Transformative Journeys: The Impact of First-Time Motherhood on Mexican Women’s Migration Experiences in the US South.” Chicana/Latina Studies 14 (2): 64-101.

2014

• “An Intersectional Approach to Latino Anti-Violence Engagement.” Culture, Society & Masculinities 6 (1): 35-51.
•  “What it Means to be a Man? Violence and Homophobia in Latino Masculinities On and Off Screen.” Journal of Popular Culture 47 (3): 537- 554.

2013

• “Feminist Identification and Women’s Control over their Bodies in a Neoliberal Context: A Closer Look at Pregnant Women on Bed Rest.” Feminist Formations 25 (3): 33-56.

Works in Progress

• “El cosmopolitismo excluyente en las trayectorias de los peruanos en el extranjero.” Book Chapter for El privilegio en el Perú: múltiples dimensiones, edited by Alvaro Grompone and Luciana Reategui. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
• “Experiencias de otredad y empoderamiento: Trayectorias transformativas en identidades contemporáneas tusanes.” Book chapter for Los chinos de ultramar: Tusanes, transnacionalidad y transformaciones, edited by Rodrigo Campos, Gonzalo Paroy, Ricardo Martinez Esquivel. Lima: CEAS.
• “Encouraging, Defining, and Evaluating ‘Expanded Scholarship’ as Productivity in Academic Institutions.” Co-authored with Ellen Riggle.

Education

• Ph.D., Indiana University, Anthropology