Norma Vasallo Barrueta


Norma Vasallo Barrueta is a Cuban feminist researcher and academic, and the head of the Women's Department of the University of Havana.

Education

She has a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in applied social studies, and a PhD in psychology from the University of Havana.

Career

Vassallo is the head of the Women's Department of the University of Havana and a founder of its Women's Studies Group. At the University of Havana she leads research on the gender aspects of criminology, social sciences, and HIV/AIDS; she has been the president of the Women's Chair since 1998. From 1997 to 2002, she led a collaboration between the University of Havana and Carleton University in Canada.
She is featured in the 2019 documentary En busca de un espacio by Marilyn Solaya and appeared on the Cubavisión television program Cosas de Hombres.
In 2021, she was a recipient of the 60th Anniversary seal of the Federation of Cuban Women presented by Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar and Reinaldo García Zapata.

Selected publications