Mery Perez

Teaching Professor in Sustainable Rural Communities, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University

PhD in Rural Studies, University of Guelph
mperez@grenfell.mun.ca

Dr. Mery Perez is a Teaching Professor in the School of Arts and Social Science at Memorial University, Grenfell Campus. She holds a Ph.D. in Rural Studies from the University of Guelph with a focus on community capacity building and development through creativity.  In her master’s and doctoral programs, her research focused on the role of the arts, particularly music, in capacity development, community building, and social and environmental change in Canada and in Latin America. Her research interests include the relationship between environmental governance and community development, and the role of Indigenous and rural communities in sustainability.

• Ph.D., Rural Studies, University of Guelph (2019). Dissertation: Re-articulating Discourse for Indigenous and Environmental Justice: A Study of Nicaragua’s Unidos por BOSAWAS Music Festivals.
• MA, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Guelph (2014). Thesis: Empowered by Song: the Misa Campesina and Peasant Involvement in the Nicaraguan Revolution.