M. Cristina Alcalde

M. Cristina Alcalde is Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion at Miami University. Previously, she served as Marie Rich Endowed Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Kentucky, where she was also Associate Dean of Inclusion and Internationalization in the College of Arts and Sciences at the university. There, she was also an affiliate faculty member in the Social Theory, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, and Anthropology departments and worked with the Center for Research on Violence Against Women. Her research focuses on exclusion, leadership, gender violence, migration, and race and racialization.

Education
Alcalde earned her Masters of Arts (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) at Indiana University Bloomington in Latin American Studies and anthropology, respectively.

Research
Alcalde researches exclusion, belonging, migration, and racialization, as well as the experiences of women of color particularly in leadership. She also has extensive experience with research on domestic violence, particularly in Peru, and on the "interconnections among intimate, institutional, and structural violence in Peru and among Latinos in the U.S., as well as on masculinities and motherhood". She finds that the responsibility of preventing domestic violence and protecting those who are being abused does not belong to any one person or institution, and it includes the police, the prosecutors office, ministries, courts, and the public.