Marisa Ruiz Trejo

Marisa G. Ruiz Trejo is a feminist anthropologist and Tenured Full Professor at FCHDIS, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH), Mexico, and a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (Level II). She holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Anthropology and Latin American Studies and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Gender and Feminist Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her research focuses on feminist and decolonial epistemologies, academic freedom, feminist thinkers' genealogies, and gender-based violence in Chiapas and Central America.

She contributed an expert report to the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala, the landmark national court ruling that recognized sexual and domestic slavery committed by the Guatemalan army against Maya Q'eqchi' women during the internal armed conflict. Marisa Ruiz Trejo has received international recognition through fellowships and research grants from organizations including CLACSO and CAFA, Edmundo O'Gorman Fellow at Columbia University, a Fulbright-García Robles Fellow at New York University, and Heath Visiting Professor at Grinnell College.

Ruiz Trejo is the author and editor of several books on feminist thought and decolonial social sciences, including Epistemologías feministas: cuerpo y emociones en investigación (2023), Antropologías feministas en rebeldía en Chiapas y Centroamérica (2022), and Descolonizar y despatriarcalizar las Ciencias Sociales (2020). Her forthcoming book, Antropólogas y pensadoras críticas desde el Sur: de las pioneras a las feministas insurgentes y activistas (CLACSO–UNACH, 2026), presents twenty-eight interviews with leading feminist scholars and activists, tracing the history of feminist anthropological thought from the Global South.