Janice Robles Fernández

Advisor: Dr. Glenn Adams
Research Lab: Cultural Psychology Research Group

I am interested in examining how colonial contexts and systems of oppression shape individual and collective identity processes, intergroup relations, and political attitudes. My work draws on decolonial feminist theory and critical psychology to investigate how people make sense of themselves and their environments. My research aims to explore how dominant notions of development and progress function as legacies of the modern/colonial project. Additionally, I am interested in how colonization historically transformed our conceptions of gender and sexuality, and how these structures shape identity experiences in the present day. Much of my work focuses on the Puerto Rican context, examining how societal structures and individual psychology interact in ways that lead to both the legitimation and resistance of inequality and repression.