M. Gabriela Torres (USA) is Vice Provost and Professor at Rhode Island College. She specializes in the study of violence—particularly gender–based violence—and state formation. She is co-editor in chief of Feminist Anthropology, editor of the volumes Marital Rape and Sexual Violence in Intimacy, and author of over thirty peer reviewed articles and chapters on gender based violence, and sexual violence and diversity in higher education. Dr. Torres has worked as an expert witness since 2011 in US and Canadian courts and has provided over one hundred country conditions declarations on gender-based, and anti-indigenous violence. She has been honored for her work on diversity by the American Anthropological Association’s Gender Equity Award (2018), and Wheaton College’s MLK Jr. Legacy Award (2022). She has been awarded grants from the School for Advanced Research, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Science Foundation, among others. Dr. Torres is an experienced conflict management professional and worked as Ombudsperson for sexual harassment and assault for the American Anthropological Association from 2018-2021. In 2023-24 she was named an American Council on Education Fellow.