Gloria D’Alessio holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the National University of San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar and Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research investigates mobility and migration across the Darién borderland, with fieldwork in the Gulf of Urabá in Colombia and in Guna Indigenous towns in Panamá. She examines how transnational migration policies shape everyday life, and how local communities engage with, respond to, and are transformed by migration flows.
Gloria also works extensively with visual and audiovisual anthropology. She is the co-founder of La Cocina de la Investigación, a collective dedicated to making social science research accessible through creative and collaborative formats. Her short film Mujeres y Academia en Chile (2024), produced within La Cocina, received an Honorable Mention at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival.