Maria Esperanza Rock Nunez is currently a Humboldt Research Fellow at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and serves as Vice President for the Americas of TICCIH International. She is a professor in the PhD Program in Global South Territorial Studies (DetSur) at the University of Concepción and a member of the university’s Urban Laboratory.
She co-founded NUDISUR, an international network dedicated to fostering critical and collaborative approaches to industrial heritage, memory, and territorial transformation from diverse community perspective. Through NUDISUR, she has developed and coordinated a range of research, cultural, and community-based initiatives, including Relatos del Carbón, the Casa Taller Chiguayante Cultural Center, and Cultura y Territorio.
As an ethnohistorian, her research explores industrial heritage, collective memory, and deindustrialization as lenses through which to understand contemporary social, environmental, and territorial challenges with critical view. Drawing on critical and decolonial perspectives, she promotes dialogue between Western and non-Western knowledge systems to advance social, environmental, and epistemic justice.
Email: esperanzarock@u.uchile.cl / esperanzarock@culturayterritorio.cl
Website: www.culturayterritorio.cl
