Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira is a postdoctoral researcher in Political Science at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and a member of the Género y Política (GEYPO) research group. She holds both an MA (2015) and a PhD (2019) in Sociology from the University of Brasília, and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2017–2018). At the University of Brasília, she founded and coordinated the Black Women’s Study Group (Grupo de Estudos Mulheres Negras – UnB), dedicated to the study of Black women’s intellectual production.

Her work is grounded in the intersectionality of gender and race/ethnicity. From 2022 to 2025, she led IntersectGE as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, examining sexual harassment against racially minoritised and immigrant women in Spanish universities through an intersectional lens. Through this project, she also collaborated with the EU-funded UNISAFE project on gender-based violence in universities and research organisations across Europe.

Her most recent publications analyse the EU equality policies for higher education and research and the EU Anti-Racism Action Plan 2020-2025 from a Black feminist perspective. In Brazil, her research includes a book on domestic violence against Black women (Tramas e dramas de gênero e de cor, 2013), and her PhD thesis on Black women’s affective and sexual experiences, later published as a book by the Latin American Studies Association (Dengos e zangas das mulheres-moringa, 2021). 

Her work also explores other topics, such as Black women’s resistance under Brazil’s far-right Bolsonaro government, digital Black feminist activism in Brazil, and innovative applications of intersectionality in research.