María Emma Wills

María Emma Wills is a political scientist who, after twenty years as a university professor at the University of the Andes, became the advisor to the director of Colombia’s National Historical Memory Center (until 2022). In 2008–11 she also led the Historical Memory Group’s Gender and Women Research Team. In 2014, during the peace negotiations in Havana between the FARC guerrilla group and the Colombian government, she was appointed to the Historical Commission on the Conflict and its Victims. Since 2013, she has coordinated a pedagogical project to prepare schoolteachers to engage with the history of the war in Colombia from a historical memory perspective. Her study of the inclusion and representation of women in Colombia’s political life, Mujeres y política en Colombia, 1970–2000: Los cambios (insospechados) hacia una gradual apertura (2001), is a landmark of feminist political science studies in Latin America.