Teodora Corina Hasegan, PhD

Anthropologist Researcher/Editor /Translator

Teodora Corina Hasegan is a socio-cultural anthropologist researcher, editor and translator with international educational background and professional experience in academia and global organizations. Teodora holds a doctorate in anthropology from Binghamton University (State University of New York, US). She was awarded a certificate in Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons by the Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), and an Indigenous Peoples' Rights certificate by the HREA and the Human Rights Centre of the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Throughout her career, Dr. Hasegan has focused on projects at the intersection of anthropology, advocacy journalism, storytelling and civic engagement related to global contemporary social, cultural, and political issues; areas of specialization include social justice, human rights, environment, sustainable development, and traditional knowledge (with an emphasis on marginalized, Indigenous communities worldwide).

Dr. Hasegan has extensive editing experience for academic publications and online media. Currently, she is Copy Editor for the “Fourth World Journal” published by the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS). Teodora’s previous affiliations include Pennsylvania State University Libraries (as Assistant Editor for the “IK: Other Ways of Knowing” journal on global scholarly research on Indigenous worldviews), and Assistant Editor for the scholarly journal “Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power” published by Routledge. As an anthropologist, Teodora has traveled extensively, for example, in Central America (to research on the Mayan communities of the highlands in Guatemala; the Bribri communities in Costa Rica; and the Embera communities in Panama); and in Southeast Asia (to research on the Indigenous Veddas community in Sri Lanka). Teodora contributes as a translator (from Spanish into English) to Global Voices (a citizen media website comprising news and stories from 167 countries) and Rising Voices initiative aiming to help bring new civic voices from marginalized or Indigenous communities to the global conversation.