Claudia Donoso, Ph.D.

Ph.D., University of British Columbia (Canada)
M.A., Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-FLACSO (Ecuador)
B.A., Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador)

Feminism and Development
Critical Human Security
Human Rights
International Political Economy
Ethics in International Relations
Sustainable Development
Conflict Transformation
Inter-American Security Issues

Critical security studies
Border security
Human security
Latin American politics
Feminist international relations
Intersectional feminism

Claudia Donoso, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Graduate International Relations at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She holds a B.A. in Social Communication and a M.A. in International Relations. She completed her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. The topic of her doctoral research was Feminist Critical Human Security: Women’s (In) Security and Smuggling on Ecuador’s Borders. This research, which utilized qualitative methods, was carried out with a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.

In addition to her experience in academia, she worked as a Security Advisor for the Ecuadorian Government. From April 2007 to September 2010, she served as Security and Defense Advisor in the Ministry of Internal and External Security and as Human Security Consultant at the National Migrants Secretariat, the Ecuadorian Agency for International Cooperation and the National Secretariat of Intelligence. As Under Secretary of Sovereignty and Border Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she coordinated the visit of the General Secretary and the Verification Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS). The purpose of that visit was to show to the OAS Mission the effects of the Colombian conflict on Ecuador’s border region.

Donoso, Claudia (2020). “The Biopolitics of Migration: Ecuadorian Foreign Policy and Venezuelan Migratory Crisis,” Journal of Borderlands Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2020.1713854

Donoso, Claudia (2020). “Securitisation of female asylum seekers and healthcare in detention centres in Texas,” Int. J. Migration and Border Studies. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp.186–205.

Donoso, Claudia (2019). “I was working!” Women Smugglers on Ecuador’s Borders. Espaço Acadêmico, 19 (219), 1-18.

Donoso, Claudia (2017). “Mujeres, inequidad y contrabando en las fronteras ecuatorianas.” Estado y Comunes No 5. Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales-IAEN.

Donoso, Claudia (2016). “Feminist Critical Human Security: Women’s (in) Security and Smuggling on Ecuador’s Borders.” Conference Proceedings June 1-3 2016, Canadian Association of Latin American Studies-CALACS. Latin America Research Centre, University of Calgary.

Donoso, Claudia y James Rochlin (2015). “Analytical Conclusions.” In: Profits, Security and Human Rights in Colombia – Regulating Canada’s Extractive Sector in Developing Countries. James Rochlin, editor. Routledge Press.

Donoso, Claudia (2011). Interdependencia en Seguridad en la Frontera Colombo-ecuatoriana: Propuesta de Política Pública. Editorial Académica Española.

Donoso, Claudia and Moreano, Hernán (2010). “Democratización de la Seguridad y la Defensa en Ecuador.” [Translated as Democratization of Security and Defense in Ecuador], Relaciones Internacionales No 38.

Bonilla, Adrián y Claudia Donoso (2010). “Defensa y democracia en América Latina: retos actuales y desafíos futuros.” En: La reconstrucción de la Seguridad Nacional, Defensa, democracia y cuestión militar en América Latina., Marcela Donadio (ed.). Buenos Aires: Prometeo.

Donoso, Claudia (2009). Ecuador-Perú: Evaluación de diez años de paz y desarrollo. Claudia Donoso (comp.). Quito: FLACSO-Ecuador, ESQUEL Foundation, and CAF-the Andean Foment Corporation.

Donoso, Claudia (2006). “Integración Regional: El Caso Ecuatoriano.” En: La integración latinoamericana: visiones regionales y subregionales.  [Translated as “Regional Integration: The Ecuadorian Case.” In: Latin American Integration: Regional and Sub-regional Visions] Francisco Rojas Aravena y Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, coordinadores. San José: FLACSO – Secretaria General; Observatorio para las Relaciones Europa – América Latina (OBREAL); Ed. Juricentro.

Donoso, Claudia and Moreano, Hernán (2006). “Populismo y Neopopulismo en Ecuador.” [Translated as Populism and Neopopulism in Ecuador], Revista Opera. Universidad Externado, Colombia.