Claire Branigan is a multi-disciplinary educator and scholar and serves as the Program Advisor for Spanish and Portuguese.

In the department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures she teaches a variety of courses in Spanish that are grounded in medical humanities, Latin American Studies, and gender, women, and sexuality studies. She is passionate about empowering students to take their work in the classroom to the world through digital storytelling and other public-facing platforms.

Her research unfolds at the intersection of political/legal, feminist, and medical anthropology and the particular ways that human beings respond to violence, specifically the violence of impunity and feminicide.  

In 2020, she founded La Red Interamericana Anti-Femicidio (RIAF)  a multilingual/interdisciplinary community for academic and activist dialogue on feminicide in the Américas.
 
She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in sociocultural anthropology with a minor in Gender Relations in International Development.  

You can read her research and learn more about her work at her website clairebranigan.phd.