Korinta Maldonado

Korinta Maldonado is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work bridges Indigenous Studies, Legal and Political Anthropology, and Critical Race Studies in the Americas.

Education:

• B.A. in Ethnology, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City
• M.A. in Rural Development, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City
• Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Maldonado's research examines how indigenous movements in Latin America intersect with human rights frameworks and state multicultural policies. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Puebla and Chiapas, Mexico, collaborating with indigenous organizations to analyze normative systems and subjectivities under global rights regimes. Her publications focus on indigenous courts and identity formation in the Totonac region, though detailed chronology remains unspecified in available texts.

She teaches courses such as Introduction to Latin American Cultures, Indigenous Thinkers of the Americas, and Collaborative Methodologies, emphasizing critical engagement with indigenous epistemologies and anthropological practice.