Mariana Mora is Associate Professor – Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. Her research focuses on struggles for justice against violence and the continued processes of colonization as part of State formation in Latin America and her scholarship is situated within critical race theories, feminist studies, decoloniality and the political.

Her recent scholarship centers on conceptualizing the political through expanded forms of care-work, healing and restorative senses of justice in contexts of patriarchal and racial forms of violence. She is part of the Decolonial Feminist Network in Mexico.