Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Andrea González-Ramírez holds a PhD and an MA in Prehistoric Archaeology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a Licenciate in Anthropology with a specialization in Archaeology from the Universidad de Chile. She develops feminist research applied to the Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Social Reproduction, focusing on the political economy of procreative and care work in pre-capitalist societies.

She has conducted fieldwork in contexts of political-economic transition and structural transformation in the Central and South-Central Andes, with projects in Chavín de Huántar and La Puntilla (Nasca, Peru), as well as in the Atacama Desert, in the Pampa del Tamarugal and its arreic coast (Tarapacá, Chile). Since 2015, she has led the ARRESO Research Group (Archaeology of Social Reproduction), where she coordinates interdisciplinary projects funded by Chilean national research programs, including studies on coastal settlement dynamics, high-resolution recording technologies, and heritage management.

Her motivation is to contribute to feminist debates on Social Reproduction by drawing on the deep temporal perspectives offered by archaeology, focusing both on the disciplining of female bodies for reproduction and on the diverse practices of resistance and political contradiction that emerge across history.