Guadalupe Escalante Rengifo ( She/Her )

Contract Instructor

• Paterson Hall, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

Dr. Guadalupe Escalante Rengifo is a Contract Instructor in the Department of History at Carleton University and has served as a Part-Time Professor at the University of Ottawa since 2018. She is recipient of the University of Ottawa’s Part-Time Professor of the Year Award (2024–2025), an honor that reflects her commitment to “teaching that connects and transforms” Dr. Escalante-Rengifo holds dual Ph.D. degrees: one in History from the University of Puerto Rico and another in Spanish, specialized in Latin American Cultural Studies, from the University of Ottawa.

Her interdisciplinary work spans the colonial and modern eras, focusing on Latin America history and culture, and Latin American migration and forced displacement, human rights, and memory in the Global North. In 2025, she was nominated for the Governor General’s Academic Medal.

(Guadalupe Escalante Rengifo: Teaching that connects and transforms | University of Ottawa).

Professional Affiliation:

• Department of History, Carleton University
• Department of History and the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa

Professional Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in History, University of Puerto Rico
• Ph.D. in Spanish, specialization in Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Ottawa
• Certificate in University Teaching, University of Ottawa
• Master in Spanish, specialization in Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Ottawa
• Master in Public Communication, University of Puerto Rico
• Bachelor in Social Communication, specialization in Journalism, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.

Awards & Nominations:

• Winner of the Part-Time Professor Award, University of Ottawa (2024-2025).
• Nominated for the Governor General’s Academic Medal, 2025.
• Recipient of the Shared Online Projects Initiative (SOPI) funds, 2021.

Peer-Reviewed Publications (Selection):

• Book Chapter:

Escalante Rengifo, G & Pantaleon, J. (2025). Essentiels, mais temporaires? la médiatisation des travailleurs agricoles mexicains et guatémaltèques au Canada en temps de la pandémie de Covid-19 dans Leila Benhadjoudja, Christina Clark-Kazak, and Stéphanie Garneau (dir.). Migration et racialisation en temps de « crise ». La fabrique des crises et ses effets. Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa.

Escalante Rengifo, G. (2019). ¿De argentino a latino-gaspésien?: la música híbrida de Juan Sebastián Larobina. Perspectivas multidisciplinarias sobre la Argentina contemporánea. El caso argentino. U. Nacional de Río Negro; Editorial de la U. Nacional de Mar del Plata; U. Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 367-380.

• Journal Article:

Escalante Rengifo, G. y Vázquez Zúñiga, I. (2023). “Narrar la migración latinoamericana en Quebec: entre la ficción y la realidad social. Entrevista a Mauricio Segura”. Diarios del Terruño. “Migraciones latinoamericanas a Canadá: nuevos actores y miradas en el estudio de las movilidades.”, Número 14, julio-diciembre 2022. (published in March, 2023). http:// wwww.revistadiariosdelterruno.com.

Escalante Rengifo, G. (Julio 2021). “J’y vais sur le champ!: narrativas mediáticas en clave biopolítica sobre los trabajadores agrícolas latinos en Quebec durante la pandemia del Covid-19”. The Journal of Latin American Communication Research (JLACR), Volume Vol 8, No 1-2 (2020) (published in 2021).

http://journal.pubalaic.org/index.php/jlacr/index

Research Interests:

Digital Humanities and Educational Technology

Latin American History (Colonial and Contemporary)

Latin American Migration in the Global North and Latino Studies

Forced Migration, Human Rights, and Memory

Media Studies and Hispanic Literatures