Margarita Martínez-Osorio

Ph.D Student in History at Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences

Margarita is a historian from Bogotá, Colombia. In 2014, she earned a B.A. in Philosophy and in 2015 a B.A. in History from Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. Since 2020, she holds an M.A. degree in History from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Before starting her studies at IU, Margarita worked as a researcher in the Colombian based think-tank of human rights, Dejusticia, studying gender inequalities in Colombia, sexual and reproductive rights, and the gender impacts of the Colombian peace process.

Since 2014, she also served as a lecturer at the School of Human Sciences at Universidad del Rosario where she taught classes on modern Colombia’s history, ethics, and historical memory.

In 2018, she started her doctoral studies in Latin American History at Indiana University sponsored by the Fulbright-Colciencias scholarship. Her current research focuses on the intersections between gender and citizenship in rural Colombia during the 20th century.