Margaret Griesse is Associate Teaching Professor of Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, at the University of Washington, Tacoma. She has an interdisciplinary and international background having completed a Bachelor in Social Work in the United States, an M.A. in Social Psychology in Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Education and International Development at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. She has published on coloniality and migration in Brazil, women’s movements in Brazil, violence against women, human rights, education and critical theory, and social responsibility. Her current projects include local research on student care work and a transnational project on feminist advocacy and solidarity.

Research/Teaching Areas: Transnational feminism, Latin American studies, Human Rights, Feminist Theory, Women’s Movements and History.

Current Projects/Research: Griesse, Margaret (2025) "Feminist Perspectives on Property in Locke" paper presented at the International Conference on What's the problem with Property in Democracy, at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Griesse, Margaret and Kmail, Zaher ( 2024) “Care Work Performed By University Students During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Importance Of Gender, Race, And Age.” Journal of Student Success and Retention, 9:2 (https://www.jossr.org/?page_id=486)

Griesse, Margaret (2024) " A decolonial reading of feminist critical theory: the concept of expropriation in Nancy Fraser" paper presented at the Seminario Teoria (y) Critica de la descolonizacion, Universidade Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City