Mafe Moscoso
Mafe Moscoso is a writer, professor, and researcher at BAU, College of Arts and Design in Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin (2011), an MA in Migration and Refuge from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2006), and an MA in Cultural Studies from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2004). Following her doctoral studies, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Area Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2012.
Dr. Moscoso has been recognized for her contributions to the field of anthropology, receiving the third Marqués de Lozoya National Research Prize in Spain (2011) and being nominated for the Ernst Reuter Prize by the Department of Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin in the same year. She works, writes and does research between/through/for/with/from the intersections of ethnography and fiction. Her main research interests are memory, migration and water, experimental ethnography, and anti-racist and feminist studies and practices.
Her recent publications include La Santita (Consonni, 2024), Hostal España. El gesto hospedante, la etnografía hospedante (Mr. Griffin, 2023), Desintegrar el hechizo, versitos anticoloniales and Crónica roja (La Reci, 2021), Etnografías experimentales y sensoriales: una introducción (Bau Ediciones, 2021), and Biografía para uso de los pájaros: infancia, memoria y migración (Iaen, 2013). In 2023, she was awarded the artistic research grant from Fundación Banco Sabadell/HANGAR for her project UN OCEANO (POR) VENIR: etno-ficciones/cuir.