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Anthropology of Law, Anthropology of Peace and Conflict, Medical Anthropology, Care, Feminist STS, Anthropology of death
Colombia, Austria, Spain

Biography

María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra (Mafe) is an anthropologist who bases her research practice on feminist and decolonial ethnographic methods. She addresses the interactions of health, the law, technology, and the body in Latin America. She recently finished a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam where she worked on the role of judicial and humanitarian forensic practice as co-producing collective accounts of violence in Colombia. She is a Postdoctoral Researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna, in the group HealthMatters. She is working on the search for forcibly disappeared persons conducted by people in exile coming from in violence-ridden contexts in Latin America.

Activities

Employment (10)

Universität Wien: Vienna, AT

2022-01-15 to 2028-01-14 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology)
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Universiteit van Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

2020-01-06 to 2022-07-31 | Marie Curie grant holder (AISSR)
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Ensamble Investigaciones: Bogotá, CO

2017-10-01 to 2020-12-31 | Investigadora Senior (Research)
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Universidad de los Andes: Bogota, CO

2016-08-01 to 2020-05-31 | Lecturer (Anthropology)
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Cesta-Investigación Independiente: Bogotá, CO

2016-07-15 to 2017-08-01 | Researcher (Social Sciences Research)
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Universidad de Los Andes: Bogotá, CO

2015-08-01 to 2016-07-15 | Assistant Professor (Biomedical Engineering )
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Universidad de los Andes: Bogota, CO

2015-07-15 to 2016-07-15 | Assistant Professor (Biomedical Engineering)
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Universidad de los Andes: Bogota, CO

2012-06-01 to 2015-07-31 | Assistant Professor (Design)
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Universidad de los Andes: Bogota, CO

2012-06-15 to 2015-06-30 | Assistant Professor (Design)
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University of Manchester: Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB

2010-01-25 to 2011-07-31 | Research Associate (Social Anthropology)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Universiteit van Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

2006-01-09 to 2010-01-19 | PhD (Social Sciences)
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Universiteit van Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

2003-09-08 to 2004-08-16 | M.A Medical Anthropology (Social Sciences )
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Universidad de los Andes: Bogota, CO

1997-01-17 to 2001-09-15 | BA (Anthropology)
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Funding (3)

Shaping the conflict: The role of judicial and humanitarian forensic knowledge in co-producing collective accounts of violence. A case study of the Colombian (post) conflict

2020-06 to 2022-05 | Grant
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (Amsterdam, NL)
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898537

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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

PINOCCHIO

2016-03 to 2018-03 | Grant
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Bogotá, CO)
Part of GRANT_NUMBER:

662-2015

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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Sistemas de información en el marco de justicia y paz: ¿Medios para reparar la Nación y escribir historia?.

2012-05 to 2013-06 | Grant
Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, CO)
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Works (27)

Forensic Tales: Embodied Peace and Violence in Colombian (Post) Armed Conflict

TRAJECTORIA
2023-03-31 | Journal article | Investigation, Funding acquisition, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Part of ISSN: 24354074
Contributors: María Olarte-Sierra; Gina Razzini; David Garces; Sergio Vitta; Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
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Prácticas forenses y violencia en masa: perspectivas contemporáneas y retos investigativos

Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
2023-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1900-5407
Part of ISSN: 2011-4273
Contributors: María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra; Vivette García-Deister; Derek Congram
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On Bodies and Our Own Bodies Care and Vulnerability When Teaching about Death and Loss

Curare
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
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Technolegal worlds in an armed conflict

2022-12-06 | Book chapter
Contributors: María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra; Jaime Enrique Castro Bermúdez
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Balance y flexibilidad en los límites: prácticas forenses en Colombia en la implementación del acuerdo de paz

ADN, protagonista inesperado: promesas y realidades de la investigación genética ante nuestra crisis forense
2022-09 | Book chapter
Contributors: Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
2022-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
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Producing and delivering truth: the (in) visibility of forensic scientists in Colombia

Invisible Labour in Modern Science
2022-05 | Book chapter
Contributors: Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
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Survivors of childhood cancer in Latin America: Role of foundations and peer groups in the lack of transition processes to adult long‐term follow‐up

Cancer Report
2021 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

When apathy wins

Embrace the Dialogue
2021-12 | Other
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

De guerrilleros a víctimas; de héroes a perpetradores: movimientos y relaciones del conflicto armado colombiano y la práctica de identificación e investigación forense en el caso de los Falsos Positivos

Papeles del CEIC
2021-10-05 | Journal article
Contributors: María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra; Jaime Enrique Castro Bermúdez
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Careful Speculations: Toward a Caring Science of Forensic Genetics in Colombia

Feminist Studies
2020 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Parent Engagement and Agency in Latin American Childhood Cancer Treatment: A Qualitative Investigation

JCO Global Oncology
2020-11 | Journal article
Contributors: María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra; Nuria Rossell; Marcela Zubieta; Julia Challinor
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Challenges to the improvement of Colombian medical brigades aimed at the diagnosis of congenital heart disease: A qualitative approach

Global Public Health
2019-08-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Alejandra Rubio; Rodolfo Dennis; Maria Teresa Dominguez; Roberto Suarez; Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra; Daniela Palacio; Miguel Ronderos
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Notas forenses: conocimiento que materializa a los cuerpos del enemigo en fosas paramilitares y falsos positivos

Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
2019-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1900-5407
Part of ISSN: 2011-4273
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Of flesh and bone: emotional and affective ethnography of forensic anthropology practices amidst an armed conflict

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
2019-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
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Challenges to the improvement of Colombian medical brigades aimed at the diagnosis of congenital heart disease: A qualitative approach

Global Public Health
2018-11-23 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Brigadas de salud en cardiología pediátrica: del triaje médico al triaje social

Salud Colectiva
2018-10-18 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Unearthing Knowledge: Forensic Anthropology and Technologies of Memory

Platypus. CASTAC
2018-04-10 | Interactive resource
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Comunicaciones cuidadosas

Universitas Humanistica
2015 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

The travels of humans, categories and other genetic products

Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation, and science in Latin America
2014 | Book chapter
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Verdad e incertidumbre en el marco del conflicto en Colombia

Universitas Humanistica
2014 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

We are all the same, we are all mestizos

Science as Culture
2014 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Working with care: experiences of invisible women scientists practicing forensic genetics in Colombia

Beyond Imported Magic
2014 | Book chapter
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Introducción. Ciencia, tecnología y América Latina: perspectivas situadas

Universitas Humanistica
2013 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Testigos modestos y poblaciones invisibles en la cobertura de la genética humana en los medios de comunicación colombianos

Interface
2012 | Journal article
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Achieving the desirable nation: Abortion and Antenatal testing in Colombia. The case of amniocentesis

Boxpress
2010 | Book
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Maria Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

When Coronavirus Meets an Armed Conflict: Death and Dying in Colombia During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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