Vita

María do Mar Castro Varela is Professor of General Education and Social Work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. She holds a degree in psychology, a degree in education, and a doctorate in political science. Among other positions, she was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Science of Man (IWM) in 2015/16 and held the Sir Peter Ustinov Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna in winter 2021/22.

Her research interests include queer studies, postcolonial theory, critical migration and education studies, trauma, and conspiracy narratives. María do Mar is also a member of the research group "Radiating Globality" led by Gayatri C. Spivak, founder and member of bildungsLab* (bildungsla.net), Chair of the Berlin Institute for Counterpoint Social Analysis (BIKA) and Principal Investigator of the research project DigitalerHass (IFAF).