Camila Belliard

Camila María Belliard (Ph.Dc) is a co-founder and coordinator of the Fellows in Racial Justice Learning Community (RAJU). She is a feminist, antiracist, and interdisciplinary social researcher with a background in Social Anthropology. Her professional experience focuses on marginalized black, femme, and queer communities in South America and the Caribbean from the perspective of transnational gender and sexuality studies grounded in the social sciences and the humanities. She is an International Fulbright Scholar Fellow and is a Ph.D. candidate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Her dissertation follows the life histories and everyday lives of Trans and Black women’s experiences and resistance of gendered and racial structural violence in the DR.  

Research Interest(s):  

Latin-American and Caribbean Studies; Blackness and Racism; Gender Based Violence, Structural Violence; Subjectivity and Self-making, Black Feminisms, Queer of Color Critique, Spirituality, Healing Justice and Wellbeing, Decolonial and Feminist Research Methodologies.   

• Co-coordination RAJU inaugural cohort

• Fulbright International Scholar - Dominican Republic.

• University of Rochester Frederick Douglass Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Beginning this Fall 2025, following the defense of her dissertation, 'Black and Trans Femmes Surviving Structural Violence in the Dominican Republic” in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Rutgers University this summer. At the University of Rochester, she will advance her research and participate in the intellectual life of the Frederick Douglass Institute (FDI), presenting her work through various university research seminars and teaching in the Department of Black Studies undergraduate program. 

The Office of Undergraduate Intellectual Life (OUIL) was founded to support students across Rutgers University. Under the leadership of ISGRJ Cross-Campus Director, Carlos Decena, the Office will be spearheading mentorship programs and initiatives to support student leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion across the university. 

The Fellows in Racial Justice Learning Community is a new cross-campus program which aims to identify, accompany and mentor generations of life-long intellectual activists in racial justice across Rutgers University.

This fellowship, launched under the ISGRJ Office of Undergraduate Intellectual Life is an unprecedented program spanning Rutgers University—Newark, Rutgers University—New Brunswick and Rutgers University—Camden which brings together undergraduate students who are passionate about social justice activism and who will pursue projects to renew, enrich, and maximize on-going racial justice efforts on campus to impact social change locally and globally.

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/Racial_Justice_Learning_Community