Rita Segato

Rita Segato

Rita Segato is an emeritus professor of the University of Brasilia, where she taught at the Department of Anthropology and at the graduate programs in bioethics and human rights. She is also a senior researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research in Brazil (CNPq). She has served as Aníbal Quijano Chair at the Museo Reina Sofía of Madrid since 2018 and, in 2019, the National University of San Martín-UNSAM in Argentina created the Cátedra Rita Segato de Pensamiento Incómodo (Rita Segato Chair of Uneasy Thinking).

She is currently one of the Directors of the International Course of Afro-Latin American and Caribbean studies, at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She has been a visiting researcher and has taught postgraduate seminars at numerous academic institutions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. For two consecutive years, 2017 and 2018, the Spanish news agency EsGlobal included Segato among the most influential Ibero-American intellectuals and at the 2018 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) there was a session dedicated to a “conversation with Rita Segato”. In 2019 she was invited by the International University Menéndez y Pelayo to offer the prestigious Master Course “The Author and her Work”, at the Magdalena Palace, Santander, Spain. In 2018, she received the Latin American and Caribbean Social Science Prize CLACSO 50 years. In 2021, she received the Frantz Fanon Award of the Caribbean Association of Philosophy for her career. In 2022, she received the Daniel Cossio Villegas Award for Social Sciences from the Colegio de México – COLMEX. In 2018, she received the Silver Medal of the Jesuit Order of San Ignacio de Loyola at the Ibero-American University of Mexico. In 2022 she received the Honoris Causa Doctorate from the University of Salamanca. She also has several other Honoris Causa doctorates and other distinctions.

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