Leydy Diossa-Jiménez is a comparative-historical and international migration sociologist who studies violence, migration, rights, and gender. She is interested in how political violence produces exile and shapes emigrant political rights. Her dissertation research compares the effects of state terrorism on the recognition of exile political rights in Argentina and Colombia. This research has received support from the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright-Hays Program. In a separate project with Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA), they examine how family ideologies are embedded in violence against women’s laws and how the legal articulation of these laws undermines women’s rights in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. This work has been published in the Latin American Research Review and Social Politics.
Education
- 2024 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Ph.D. in Sociology
- 2015 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), M.A. in Sociology
- 2012 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, M.A. with University Honors, Political Sociology
- 2005 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, B.A. in Sociology
Awards and Honors
- 2022 - Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder (declined)
- 2020-2022 - National Science Foundation, Law and Science Program, Dissertation Improvement Grant
- 2020-2021 - UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
- 2020-2021 - Dissertation Fellowship, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
- 2021 - P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) Chapter FR, Candidate Contribution
- 2020 - Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
- 2019 - Charles Tilly Travel Award, Social Science History Association, SSHA
- 2017-2018 - Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
- 2016-2017 - Will Rogers Memorial Fellowship
- 2015-2016 - Peter Kollock Award to the Most Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
