Alexandra Navarro

Alexandra Navarro — Research Fellow

Neotropical Anthropology Laboratory (NAL)

Doctoral Student in Anthropology, University of Kansas

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kansas

Alexandra Navarro is a Research Fellow at the Neotropical Anthropology Laboratory (NAL) and doctoral student in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Kansas. Originally from Honduras, Alexandra is a Fulbright Scholar (2023–2025) and holds an M.A. in Global and International Studies from the University of Kansas, and a bachelor’s degree in law from the Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras (UTH).

Alexandra has professional experience as a lawyer, and as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for undergraduate students. During her Fulbright program, she also completed an advanced English course at the University of Arizona.

Within the Neotropical Anthropology Laboratory (NAL), Alexandra's work aligns with the laboratory’s commitments to public anthropology and socially engaged research. Her scholarship examines every day and structural violence, citizen silence, testimony, and collective trauma, through community-based qualitative and narrative approaches that center lived experience.

 By prioritizing ethical representation and the translation of ethnographic knowledge beyond academic audiences, Alexandra's work contributes to the NAL’s public-facing mission of fostering public understanding, justice-oriented dialogue, and meaningful engagement with social inequality.