Under President Bukele’s perpetual 'State of Exception', El Salvador has made international news for its historic decline in homicides. Despite this, women report that problems of violence are far from over in the country, write Julia Zulver and Anne Ruelle
PhD Candidate, Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago
Anne's research aims to better understand the lived experiences of people affected by community and state violence through a gendered lens.
Her current research, 'Now Only Good People Live Free: Insecurity, Gender, and Care', focuses on the impact of El Salvador's State of Exception on the family members of people incarcerated under an emergent dictatorial regime.
Through her scholarship, she strives to build more robust, situated knowledge about gendered experiences of violence, and how security responses are experienced in the most affected homes and communities.
Anne's most recent article, 'El paquete and el varejón: Women’s Material Cultures of Care Under El Salvador’s Carceral State of Exception', has been accepted for publication in Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work.
Her work has been funded by the Fulbright Program and numerous internal grants.
Anne has over ten years' research and work experience in El Salvador, and holds a master's in social work from the University of Chicago and a BA in Global Studies and Spanish from Providence College.
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