Danny is an Aymara (Bolivia) sociologist whose work focuses on the global discourse of indigeneity and the relationship between the complexities of ethnoracial identities and inequality. He is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Yale University and a Graduate Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). Before joining the Yale Sociology Department, he served as a university lecturer at Bolivian institutions and worked as a social inclusion consultant for organizations such as the World Bank.
Publications
- Mollericona Alfaro, Danny Daniel. 2024. “Bibliography about the violence in México (1990-2023) [In Spanish].” Chapter for the book: Arteaga, N., Mejía, E., Spindola, O., Acuña, O. & Mollericona, D. La violencia en México: Feminicidios, desapariciones, ejecuciones. FLACSO - México.
- Mollericona Alfaro, Danny Daniel. 2023. “Coup d’État or ‘Bolivian spring’? The symbolic battle around the Bolivian presidential elections in 2019 [In Spanish].” Chapter for the book: Arteaga, N. & Guzman, A. (Eds.), Presencia: acciones epistemológicas y políticas. FLACSO - México. Available at
- Mollericona Alfaro, Danny Daniel and Lucio Gonzales. 2022. “Senkata y Sacaba: the collective trauma in a polarized scenario [In Spanish].” Temas Sociales, 55.
- Mollericona Alfaro, Danny Daniel. 2022. “Urban drunkenness: the folkloric continuum of the ‘emergent’ elite in La Paz [In Spanish].” Bolivian Studies Journal, 28.