Nina María Navajas Pertegas

Nina María Navajas Pertegas is a faculty member at the Universitat de València, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Department of Social Work and Social Services. She is an Ajudant Doctor, indicating an early-career academic position following the completion of her PhD in 2023. She is actively involved in the research group GECOHIS (Gender, Knowledge, History and Subjectivity), which focuses on gender, subjectivity, and critical social epistemologies.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist theory, body studies, and social work, with a particular focus on fatness and embodied experiences. Her doctoral thesis, Vivir siendo gordas: una exploración feminista sobre experiencias encorporadas de la gordura (2023), reflects a deep engagement with feminist methodologies and critical analyses of body norms. Key areas include gender, embodiment, identity, and social justice within welfare systems.

The research group GECOHIS provides a collaborative environment for interdisciplinary work on gender, history, and subjectivity, where she contributes to advancing feminist scholarship in social sciences.

She was supervised by Dr. Lucía Gómez Sánchez, Dr. Amparo Bonilla Campos, and Dr. Mónica Bolufer Peruga during her doctoral studies. While no formal advisees or grants are listed in the current information, her academic trajectory suggests active involvement in research and teaching within critical social work and feminist academia.