Harding Scholar Ange La Furcia has recently completed a PhD in Latin American Studies, submitting her thesis on "Sea Antics: The Politics of Beauty and Transwomen in the Colombian Western Caribbean".
Ange has been awarded the 2026 LASA/Oxfam America Martin Diskin Dissertation Award for this thesis. This award recognises "an outstanding junior scholar who embodies Professor Diskin’s commitment to the creative combination of activism and scholarship."
In addition to this, Ange recently published "La beauté trans comme expérience vécue dans la Caraïbe colombienne anglophone", in the first trans issue of Les Cahiers du CEDREF, a French-based journal with a focus on research in feminist and gender studies.
Ange will also shortly be publishing an article in The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She has been invited to contribute to the journal's special issue on Spirituality, Religion, and Faith, titles "Sexing the Spirit in the Repeating Islands".