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Karina Alejandra Felitti

Visiting Scholars

Center for International Studies (CERI)

National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) - Sciences Po/Université Paris Cité Visiting Faculty Program

Duration: from 01 September 2026 to 28 February 2027

Research Interest(s): History of contraception and family planning in Latin America; Sexual and reproductive health in Argentina: policies, activism, and lived experiences since the 1960s; Contemporary intimacies and affective relations; Spirituality, religion, and sexual politics in Latin America

Discipline(s): History

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations; Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination

Geographical Area(s): Latin America and the Caribbean

Country(ies): Argentina

Biography

Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. Independent researcher (full-time, equivalent to Senior Scholar) at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), affiliated with the Institute for Gender Studies (Instituto de Investigaciones en Estudios de Género, IIEGE) at the University of Buenos Aires. Senior Consultant for Gender Equity in Health at the Ministry of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires. Guest Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine (IHEAL), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (2023–2024). Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (2019–2023), El Colegio de México (2014–2015), Université Paris Diderot (2013), and the Fulbright Program (2010, Summer Institute “Religious Pluralism in the United States,” University of California, Santa Barbara).

Current Research

Transnational Connections between Latin American and French Feminisms: From Exiles in the Seventies to the Green Tide and the Rise of Right-Wing Governments in Latin America

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