Andrea Gill

Andréa Gill is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in the International Politics and Decoloniality department. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies (NEABI-UFRJ). Associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Afro-descendant Reflection and Memory (NIREMA) and the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM) of the BRICS Studies and Research Centre (BPC) at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). She is a member of the Fiscal Council of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI), as well as the Coordination of the Thematic Area of Teaching, Research and Extension; the Equity Forum; and ABRI’s Commission for the Evaluation of Affirmative Policies. She is a member of the editorial team of the journal Sexualities published by Sage. Her education consists of a BA in Social and Political Thought from Western University (UWO-Canada) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN-South Africa), and an MA and PhD in Political Science, with a specialisation in Cultural, Social and Political Thought, from the University of Victoria (UVIC-Canada).