Anne Ruelle
969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Research interests: El Salvador, state violence, gang desistance programs and policies, reinsertion and reintegration processes of formerly armed actors
Anne Ruelle is a PhD candidate in Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her research aims to better understand the lived experiences of people affected by community and state violence through a gendered lens.
Her dissertation, “‘Now only good people live free’: Insecurity, Gender, and Care,” focuses on the impact of El Salvador's State of Exception on the family members of people incarcerated under an emergent dictatorial regime. Through study of these families’ daily care practices, she highlights relationships of power between the state and its citizens and interrogates how these affect greater progress towards peaceful societies.
Through her scholarship, she strives to build more robust, situated knowledge about gendered experiences of violence and how security responses are experienced in the most affected homes and communities. Her work has been funded by the Fulbright Program and numerous internal grants.
She has over 10 years of research and work experience in El Salvador and holds a master's in social work from the University of Chicago and a BA in Global Studies and Spanish from Providence College.