About

Dr. Carla Macal is an interdisciplinary anti-colonial feminist scholar dedicated to community-engaged research addressing the intersections between state violence and intergenerational healing. She received her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Oregon in 2024. Her dissertation research was supported by the American Association of University Women and the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. Her journey through the academy began at the University of California Irvine and she is currently a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego’s Department of Literature. Dr. Macal is working on her book-in-progress, Healing Cartographies: Weaving Transformative Memory across the Hemisphere by GuateMaya Feminist Groups, which follows the oral and embodied testimonies of Guatemalan and Maya women survivors of the 36-year (1960-1996) war and their production of counter-cultural memory.

She is the creator of Ixoq Arte, an herbalist project preserving ancestral Indigenous knowledge.