Amalia Torrecillas

Published by admin on August 29, 2025August 29, 2025

Amalia Torrecillas (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Politics at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her primary research interests center on queer economics and the intersection of inequality and queerness, particularly as shaped by family policies. She investigates how the concept of queerness influences and intensifies economic inequality, with an emphasis on how non-normative family structures are treated within welfare states. Amalia’s work draws on feminist political theory, welfare state analysis, and social justice frameworks to analyze the lived experiences of queer individuals in relation to economic systems and policy design. Through the CACI fellowship, she hopes to gain a deeper understanding of how queerness is experienced, regulated, and expressed in the Chinese context, and to explore how comparative approaches can broaden the global scope of queer policy analysis.