José Meléndez Duarte is currently a doctoral assistant at the University of Applied Sciences of Geneva, HES-SO, Geneva, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Bern.
His project, “Indigenous Talking Queer, Queer Talking Indigenous,” explores sex-affective relationships and practices from an ethnic perspective in Bolivia. His research is part of the SNF project “Queer and Indigenous (Dis)encounters: Exploring Multiple Gender and Sexual Indigenous Identities in Plurinational Bolivia,” under the direction of prof. Dr. Anne Lavanchy and Prof. Dr. Patricia Purtschert.