Verónica Vicencio
Contract Instructor
- Ph.D. Anthropology (Carleton University), M.A. Anthropology (Carleton University), B.A. Women and Gender Studies (Carleton University)
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Research Interests
Critical race theory
Feminist and queer studies
Identity politics
Chicano(a) and Latinx Studies
Migration
Diaspora
Political economy
Transnationalism
Globalization
About
Verónica Vicencio completed her PhD in Anthropology at Carleton University in 2025. Verónica’s research focuses on the racialized experiences of queer migrant Latinas in Ottawa. Based on people who self-identify as women, her study examines how queer migrant Latinas (as women who defy both normative femininities or the gender binary as well as normative sexual identities and/or expressions), challenge, negotiate, mediate and, at times maybe, even reproduce heteronormativity. Verónica explores the ways in which these women transgress both normative gender and sexuality within the white spaces of the city, including white queer spaces. She analyses how queer migrant Latinas contest gender and sexual policing and participate in existing queer social spaces and in making new ones. Although her investigation aims to understand queer Latinas’ gender and sexual transgressions, Verónica also seeks to emphasize the ways in which these women create, maintain, and reinforce social connections, social support, agency, and identity-based pride.
Verónica’s PhD project continues the work she undertook for her M.A. thesis entitled, Gender and Sexual Fluidity in Veracruz, Mexico during the summer of 2017 and where she observed how queer Mexicans from the towns of Poza Rica and Coatzintla, Veracruz, through their intimate networks of friends, made queer worlds possible for themselves within contexts socially perceived as highly conservative.
Publications
Vicencio Diaz, V. (Forthcoming). La putería (whoring), as used in Poza Rica and Coatzintla, Veracruz, México. Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care.
Vicencio Diaz, V. (2025). Living and navigating Ottawa as migrant Latina(s). Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes, pp. 1–20.
Vicencio Diaz, V. (2025). Diversidad sexual in Poza Rica and Coatzintla, Veracruz, Mexico. Revista de Estudios de Género, La Ventana, 7(61), pp. 391-430.
Vicencio Diaz, V. (2023). Yolanda Valentino: Reiterating and criticizing Latina stereotypes through drag performance. Brazilian Journal of Latin American Studies, 22(47), pp. 140-163.
Vicencio Diaz, V. (2022, May 10). Review of the book Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, by J. Salazar Parreñas. Durham, pp. 1-4, NC: Duke University Press.
Editing and translation services
Núñez Patiño, Khatia. (2024). Zapatista’s childhoods: Children’s participation and the possibilities for collective knowledge. In Julie C. Garlen and Neil T. Ramjewan, Refusing the limits of contemporary childhood: Beyond innocence, pp. 103-128. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic.