Rita Segato

Born in Argentina, she has also lived in Venezuela, Northern Ireland, United States and Brazil.

She holds a Master of Arts (1978) and a Ph.D. (1984) from the Department of Social Anthropology of Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. She is a Professor Emeritus of the Universidade de Brasília, where she was a professor of the Department of Anthropology from 1985 to 2010, and of the Postgraduate Programs in Bioethics and Human Rights from 2011 to 2017. She is a top-level researcher of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico in Brazil. 

In 2014, her name was included in Heroinas.net. In March 2017, she was recognized by the Mexican magazine La Tempestad as one of the four intellectuals representative of “Latin American Thought”. The Spanish news agency esglobal included her for two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018, among the 30 most influential Latin American intellectuals. In 2018, the Universidad Nacional de Salta, the Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos and the Universidad Provincial de Córdoba granted her an Honorary Doctorate. In 2018 she received the CLACSO 50 años Latin American and Caribbean Award for Social Sciences. That same year she received the San Ignacio de Loyola Silver Medal from the Jesuit order at the Universidad Iberoamericana de México, and the legislature of the City of Buenos Aires named her “Outstanding Figure of Culture”. In 2019, the city of Montevideo granted her the title of “Illustrious Visitor”.

In 2018, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid founded the Aníbal Quijano Cathedra and she was designated as its Chair. In 2019 the Universidad Nacional de San Martín-UNSAM, Argentina, created the Rita Segato Cathedra on Uncomfortable Thought. 

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