Roxana Chiappa

Roxana Chiappa serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tarapacá, Chile, following her prior role as a CHERTL Associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her scholarly work confronts historical and structural inequalities in global higher education systems through critical frameworks centered on humility, scepticism, and care, challenging colonial legacies in research and pedagogy.

Her research prioritizes:

• Colonial continuities in internationalization and scholarship programs
• Intersection of social class, institutional prestige, and academic career outcomes
• Ranking systems' role in reproducing educational inequities
• Decolonial approaches to reshape academic ecosystems

Publications from 2018-2021 reveal cohesive analytical threads: empirical examinations of how coloniality manifests in Brazilian-Chilean scholarship exchanges, social class barriers in Chilean faculty hiring, and global rankings' privileging of elite institutions. These works collectively expose systemic mechanisms that sustain academic inequity while advocating for transformative practices grounded in critical theory.

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