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Claudia Diaz-Diaz

Assistant Professor
Education
Faculty of Education

Dr. Claudia Diaz-Diaz (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her research focuses on social movement learning and women-led grassroots organizations working at the intersection of climate and gender justice, with a special focus on Latin American contexts. She works in long-term collaboration with women water and land defenders, centring their knowledges as educators and political actors to amplify their theories of change and advance community organizing.

Her work draws on decolonial and feminist frameworks, community-engaged research, and critical qualitative methodologies. She is the Principal Investigator of Pedagogies for Climate and Gender Justice, an SSHRC-funded project, and has sustained research partnerships with women's grassroots organizations in Chile.

school PhD Supervision Status: Open to New Students

Research

Interests

  • Adult learning and education
  • Critical leadership studies
  • Affect studies
  • Climate and gender justice
  • Social movement learning and solidarity
  • Decoloniality and intersectional feminisms
  • Intergenerational learning

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Keywords

community-engaged research; climate justice; gender justice; decolonial feminist methodologies and pedagogies; social movement learning; adult education; affect theory; place-based pedagogy; popular education; land and water defenders 

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Last Updated: 07/08/26