The Maternal Contract: A Subaltern Response to Extreme Violence in the Americas

Elva F. Orozco Mendoza is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches courses in comparative political theory, decolonial feminisms, and Latin American Feminist Political Theory. She won a University of Connecticut Humanities Institute Fellowship in 2022-2023 and was a 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow at The Institute for Citizens & Scholars. Her research has been published by Theory and Event, New Political Science, Latin American Perspectives, and Philosophy and Global Affairs.