Research interests
Humanitarian and security crisis differential impact on ethnic communities located in Colombia's border areas; how the role of memory could be amplified and better nuanced through the returning of audio-visual collections for the empowerment of communities located in conflict zones to propel local projects for peacebuilding and development.
Ana Maria Marin Morales
Ana María leads OPHI’s international engagement and events programme. She is also the Deputy Director of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network, a growing community of 66 countries and 23 organisations focused on multidimensional poverty.
Ana María coordinates the executive and technical programmes open to the public, and the MPI Ambassadors and Champions programme, a network of former senior members of government, including Heads of State, who led poverty reduction efforts during their time in office.
By training, Ana María is a visual and material culture anthropologist. Her research agenda includes conflict and security, and joint projects with ethnic communities for the repatriation of visual collections. She has co-curated museum exhibitions and categorised and analysed archival material for the University of Oxford, the National General Archive of Colombia, and the National University of Colombia.
Ana María also serves as strategy adviser to the Oxford Global Security Programme, focusing on research about illicit flows and security in Latin America and the Caribbean.