Ricardo A. Velasco Trujillo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Spanish / Latin American Cultural Studies
Contact
Department of Languages
Office: 310 Strode
Website: https://culturalecologies.com/
Email: ricardv@clemson.edu
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), The University of Texas at Austin (2020); M.A. Social Documentation, University of California, Santa Cruz. (2014); M.A. Cultural Studies, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (2012)
Courses
SPAN 3080 The Hispanic World. Latin America; LANG 4550 Hispanic Film: Documentary and Feature; SPAN 4990 Special Topics: Cine, Cultural Visual y Memoria Histórica.
Research Interests
Cultural Production in Post-Conflict & Post-Authoritarian Societies; Memorialization and Cultural Activism; Transitional Justice; Symbolic Reparation; Social Documentation; Critical Digital Media Practices; Digital & Public Humanities; Fieldwork and Ethnography in the Humanities.
Ricardo Velasco (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is a Latin American Cultural Studies scholar and documentarian whose research focuses on cultural production in post-conflict and post-authoritarian societies. Since 2009, he has been studying official memorialization practices, as well as cultural activism and micro-scale movements for reparation and historical redress among grassroots organizations, Afro-descendant, displaced and refugee communities in Colombia. His work as a social documentarian has also encompassed the experiences and patterns of forced migration and human rights violations committed against rural black communities in the border region between Colombia and Panama. He is author of the testimonial documentary “After the Crossfire: Memories of Violence and Displacement” (www.afterthecrossfire.com), which premiered at Bogota's International Human Rights Film Festival in 2016. Dr. Velasco Trujillo uses audiovisual and new digital media as tools for making his work publicly accessible, and for the dissemination of the struggles and ways of knowing of the communities that contribute to his research. He is currently working on his first book entitled "Cultural Ecologies of Memory and Symbolic Reparation in Transitional Colombia" and the accompanying digital platform www.culturalecologies.com
Professional/Research Links
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-0879-6360
Awards
Mellon Just Futures Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-2024); National Postdoctoral Association IMPACT Fellowship (2022-2023); Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020-2021); Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities - University of Texas at Austin Graduate School (2020)
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Velasco, Ricardo A. 2020. “Toward Resilient Initiatives of Memory and Reconciliation among Rural Displaced Populations in Transitional Colombia.” In Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence. Imagination, Empathy, and Resilience, edited by Eve Monique Zucker and Laura McGrew. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Velasco Trujillo, Ricardo A. 2020. “Border Crossing Cultural Initiatives of Memory and Reconciliation Across the Colombian-Panamanian Border.” In Agency in Transnational Memory Politics, edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Aline Sierp. New York: Berghahn Books.
Velasco, Ricardo. 2016. “El registro testimonial y la construcción de la memoria en el documental El Salado: Rostro de una masacre.” In Memoria y conflicto. Memorias en conflicto, edited by Mónika Contreras Saiz, Tatjana Louis and Stefan Rinke. Historamericana (37): 75-102.
