Anne-Marie Veillette
About
Anne-Marie Veillette (Ph.D. in Urban Studies, National Institute of Scientific Research 2022; M.A. in Political Science and Feminist Studies, the University of Quebec in Montreal, 2017, Canada) is a professor of urban studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her Ph.D. research focused on urban transformations in Brazil, more specifically in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where she conducted research in 2016, 2018, and 2019. Building on feminist and Afro-diasporic epistemologies, her work’s main objective was to offer a microanalysis of urban transformations based on the embodied experiences and knowledge of women living in the favela. She accomplished this work thanks to the doctoral fellowships from the “Fonds de recherche société et culture du Gouvernement du Québec (2017) and the Canada Graduate Scholarship Joseph-Armand-Bombardier (2018-2021). Her dissertation won two awards, the first given by her research center (INRS) and the second by the "Réseau Ville Région Monde." Anne-Marie also won the award for international outreach (from the INRS) for her publications and presentations. Her current research compares women’s role in urbanization processes in the marginalized and peripheral urban areas of Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro (SSHRC, Insight Development Grant, 2024-2026).