Orcid ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-124X
Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Ethics and UC Center for Dialogue and Peace, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Oriana is a sociologist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, MA in Cultural Studies and Sociology from Birmingham University and PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Her research addresses the sociology of violence and human rights, sociology of knowledge applied to human rights, sociology of the subject and subjectivity; sociology of memory, citizenship and education; human rights violations, reparation and public policies; social theory, cultural theory and its relationship with social research methods. In the last decade, she has developed research in Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.
In addition to directing Data Justa, Oriana is the researcher in charge of the Fondecyt project Knowledge infrastructures and State intervention regimes: a Latin American study of National Search Plans for missing persons and Principal Researcher of the Millennium Institute on Violence and Democracy - VioDemos.
In the last 10 years she has obtained 10 research funds from Chilean and British institutions, leading six projects, among them: the Anillos en in Social Sciences Political Technologies of Memory: Contemporary uses and appropriation of past human rights violations registry devices in Chile, in collaboration with the Austral University of Chile and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights of Chile and funded by ANID; Political violence and human rights violations accountability: circumstances, uses and effects of forced disappearance registration. Lessons from a comparative perspective in the Americas, in collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Iberoamericana, and Goldsmiths College, and funded by the Newton Fund; Political Technologies of Memory: a genealogy of the mechanisms for recording and denouncing human rights violations under the military dictatorship in Chile (1973-2013), , in collaboration with the University of Oxford and funded by the Newton Foundation and the National Commission for Science and Technology of Chile, recognized with the 2018 Newton Prize for the Americas for its scientific excellence and global impact; Documentality and Display: Archiving and curating the violent past in contemporary Argentina, Chile and Colombia (Co-researcher) in collaboration with Pontificial Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Tres de Febrero, Goldsmiths College, and funded by the British Academy; Beyond the Victim Paradigm, financiado por Fondecyt-ANID.
Her scientific production includes two books, over 45 articles and chapters, and the editing of four special issues in scientific journals.
Oriana has been invited to give lectures, courses, seminars, and summer schools at more than 25 universities in Chile, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. She has been a visiting professor at Goldsmiths College, University of Edinburgh, University College London, Warwick University, Universidad Iberoamericana, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, among others.