Sara Estrada Villalta, PhD
Faculty
She/Her
Areas of Study
Contact
Sara Estrada-Villalta completed a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas (2020), a Master of Arts Degree in Social Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa (2011), and an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (2007). Her main teaching and research interests focus on understanding the relationship between sociocultural contexts and how people construct and understand selves and identities. Her works draws upon global psychological perspectives, including critical perspectives such as Liberation Psychology and Decolonizing approaches rooted in Latin American contexts to interrogate processes of psychological knowledge production and application, as well as exploring how this knowledge shapes our societies and individual lives. Her research and teaching practice have an international focus with the purpose of understanding how different sociocultural contexts, including power structures, interethnic relations, histories of violent conflict, and economic and political processes shape psychological experiences of self, identity, and ways of understanding the world, working in the U.S. and in the Central American region.