Catalina Vallejo

Catalina Vallejo is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia. Her​ research interests include cultural-economic sociology, political sociology and social memory studies. Her work examines how societies come to terms with violent pasts and other major disruptions of the social order and how, through the mobilization of narratives and economic resources, they address suffering. In her dissertation, she investigate how the Colombian and Peruvian states value suffering and develop institutional channels to offer reparations to victims of human rights violations related with armed conflict. She is originally from Bogotá, Colombia.