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Educational Background
2022 Ph.D., Sociology, New School for Social Research (NSSR)
2014 M.A., Sociology, NSSR
2010 B.A. with Honors, Liberal Arts, Major in Film Production, The New School
2003-08 Partial B.A. Studies, Communications, University of Lima
Scholarly Interests
Dr. Aparicio is an interdisciplinary sociologist, cultural worker, and videomaker. Using ethnographic and archival methods, she studies how social inequalities are experienced, maintained, and challenged in artistic careers, organizations, transactions, and built environments.
Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, Fulbright Program, Janey Program in Latin American Studies, among others.
Beyond her academic work, she uses qualitative research as a form of knowledge-production to support the work of artists and cultural workers around the world in organizations such as Photographer’s Green Book, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Federation of International Film Archives, and Metris Arts.
Selected Publications
Articles
Accepted, “Cool Labor: Snowboard Instructors’ Professionalization as Relational Work.” Research in the Sociology of Work.
2023, with Rachel Skaggs. “Workers and Work in the Arts: Definitional Challenges and Approaches to Collective Action among Arts and Creative Workers.” Work and Occupations 50(3): 436-444. https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884231162957
2022, “In the Dark: The Micro-Organizational Framework to Sustain Film as Art in the Museum of Modern Art.” Poetics 92: 101621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101621
2021, with van Dalen, Janneke, Nadja Šičarov, and Karen Gracy. “How-To: Sharing Knowledge Among Generations of Archivists.” Journal of Film Preservation 105: 13-21.
2019, “Convolute H: The Collector. Aeropuerto, Disenchantment, Dialectical Rescue.” New Writing 16(4): 444-448.
Book chapters
2026, “Yuyariy, Four Lessons to Approach Temporal Order and Reciprocity in Decolonial and Anticolonial Research,” in Handbook on Anticolonial, Decolonial, and Postcolonial Sociologies, edited by Jyoti Puri and Vrushali Patil. Edward Elgar Publishing.
2026, “Behind the Scenes: The Institutional Uses of ‘Diversity’ in the Production of MoMA’s Film Curatorship,” in Arbiters of Race: Cultural Intermediaries, Racism, and Consumer Industries edited by Erik Withers and David Brunsma. Routledge.