Marlen Rosas

Marlen Rosas is an Assistant Professor of History at Haverford College, specializing in modern Latin America. Her work focuses on Indigenous education, Indigenous feminisms, and intersections of class, gender, and ethnicity in Andean rural social movements. She has published in the Hispanic American Historical Review and co-founded the Thinking Andean Studies Interdisciplinary Conference.

• Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania (2021)
• M.A., History, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
• B.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Columbia University (2014)

Her research explores how Indigenous communities in Ecuador used literacy, memory, and narrative to assert political agency against systemic marginalization. By analyzing oral histories and educational initiatives, she highlights grassroots consciousness formation and alliances with leftist movements like the Communist Party of Ecuador. Her forthcoming book, Recording Indigenous Resistance (University of New Mexico Press), reframes Indigenous activism as a continuous intellectual tradition.

Rosas' publications examine the evolution of Indigenous education through socialist schools and labor unions in 20th-century Ecuador, emphasizing contested visions of modernity and autonomy. Her courses include topics on Andean history, Latin American knowledge production, and Indigenous women's roles in social movements.

Notable contributions:

• Co-founder of the interdisciplinary Thinking Andean Studies Conference
• Advocacy for "history from below" methodologies in research and teaching