Hayley Serpa

Hayley Maritza Serpa is a PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine (HSHM) Program and the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M) Program.

Her research examines how ‘population’ has functioned as a racialized and gendered category for knowing and managing life and death in Peru. She is invested in other ways of knowing and being in community that resist or exist outside demographic logics, particularly through feminist and Indigenous epistemologies. Her broader interests include the human and life sciences in Latin America and globally, especially the history of anthropology, biology, ecology, and sociology.

Originally from Miami, FL, she earned her B.A. and M.A. in History from Florida International University. She was a community archivist and oral historian at the University of Miami Libraries alongside migrant Florida farmworkers before starting her doctoral studies.

She is always happy to chat with interested students and collaborators @HayleySerpa