Maria Schrupp

Department / Division

  • Cultural Anthropology

Title

  • Graduate Student

Maria graduated in 2020 from the College of Saint Benedict with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, concentration in Anthropology, and minor in Hispanic Studies. Her undergraduate thesis explored the affective responses of Venezuelan migrants in Santiago, Chile to the State and bureaucratic entities. Maria’s research interests are environmental justice, political ecology, decolonization, and migration. Additionally, Maria is committed to community-based participatory research and using anthropological research to contest and dismantle institutionalized forms of discrimination and to aid in activist movements.