Daniela Mansilla is a social anthropologist from the University of Chile and holds a Master’s in Sociology from the Alberto Hurtado University. Her professional career has focused on research related to human rights, historical memory, political violence, and transitional justice, working on projects for the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Chile, the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and the Alberto Hurtado University.
She has specialized in documentary research, working with human rights archives, political technologies of memory, and reparations policies. Her academic work has focused on human rights, transitional justice, truth commissions, and qualitative methodology. Additionally, she has taught anthropology and ethnography in the Sociology program at UAH, focusing on qualitative research and ethnographic methods.
She has published in specialized journals such as Educación y Humanismo, Revista Sophia Austral, Antípoda and Revista Austral de Ciencias Socialesaddressing topics such as historical memory, the use of human rights archives, and the processes of silencing related to the dictatorship in Chile.