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5.04/23/2026

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Diana Sierra Becerra is an Assistant Professor of History in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A historian of women and gender in Latin America who specializes in social movements and revolutions, she earned her PhD in History and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan in 2017, with a dissertation titled “Insurgent Butterflies: Gender and Revolution in El Salvador, 1965–2015.” Her research examines peasant and working-class women's roles in revolutionary processes, particularly in El Salvador. Her book, The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2025), covers five decades of struggle from 1965 to 2015, weaving oral histories with archival sources to demonstrate how rank-and-file women shaped revolutions by confronting sexism within radical movements and developing revolutionary feminism that bridged socialism and women's liberation.