Pascha Bueno-Hansen

Biography

Pascha Bueno-Hansen is associate professor of Women and Gender Studies and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. As an activist-scholar, she is involved in several collaborative projects in solidarity with Indigenous women’s and LGBTI resistance struggles in defense of human rights in the Américas. In the Delaware Bay region, she is committed to repairing relations with Lenape and Nanticoke communities. The Spanish edition of her first book, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice (2015), was published in 2020 by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. Her forthcoming book, Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Truth, Justice and Reparations, examines the resistance practices of people of nonnormative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Bueno-Hansen has published articles in journals including International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Latino Studies, Hypatia and Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. She received the University of Delaware Faculty Senate’s 2020 Mid-Career Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award and the John and Patricia Cochran Scholar of Inclusive Excellence award for 2025–30.
 

Recent Publications 

Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Truth, Justice and Reparations. Rutgers University Press “Genocide, Human Rights and Political Violence” book series. Forthcoming January 2027.

“Dissident Genders, Sexualities, and Transitional Justice” Special issue International Journal of Transitional Justice. (Co-edited with José Fernando Serrano Amaya). 2026.

“The Politics of Desire and Peace,” (co-authored with Ahmad Qais Munhazim and Purita Pelayo) International Feminist Journal of Politics. 2025.

“Queering Transitional Justice” The Justice Visions podcast hosted at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. January 30, 2025.

“Cisheteronormativity and Transitional Justice,” in Douglas, Lawrence, Meierhenrich, Jens and Hinton, Alexander eds. Oxford Handbook on Transitional Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2025.

“The Heterosexual System Denuded: Ecuador’s Truth Commission” in Schulz, Philipp, Brandon Hamber, and Heleen Touquet ed. Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice. 2025. New York: Routledge.

“Concluding Thoughts and Calls to Action” (co-authored with Heleen Touquet, Philipp Schulz, José Fernando Serrano-Amaya, Katherine Fobear, and Brandon Hamber) in Schulz, Philipp, Brandon Hamber, and Heleen Touquet ed. Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice. New York: Routledge. 2025.