Amanda Hernández Pérez
Visiting Scholar 2006-2007
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
PhD candidate in Advanced Latin American Social, Political and Economic Issues, Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset (affiliate of Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Spain.
Area of Expertise: Hernández is an expert on social and gender history.
Country of Expertise: Mexico
Current Research Project: The objectives are to explain how social and economic politics have affected or impacted farming and therefore, the living conditions of Sinaloa’s female workers from the post-revolutionary states up to the present. The aim is to understand up to what extent they have contributed to the achievement of the transformations that women benefited from in their fight to rise above their subordination, as well as to know the details and limits of the resistance where women were often the protagonists.
Project Title: Agrarian transformations and the participation of women in rural areas: The case of female agricultural workers in Sinaloa 1970-2000
Academic Background: Hernández received her BA in history from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico. She is currently
a PhD candidate at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset.
Hernández has attended several international seminars in Spain, Mexico and Peru on the treatment of gender, business and transnationalism in the field of history.
Selected Publications
"Las masas y los símbulos en la obra de Luis Arenal" en Los pinceles de la Historia IV: La arqueología del régimen 1910-1955, catálogo de exposición, México, MUNAL-CONACULTA-INBA-UNAM-IIE-BANAMEX, 2003, pp. 89-90
"México Bárbaro" en Los pinceles de la Historia IV: La arqueología del régimen 1910-1955, catálogo de exposición, México, MUNAL-CONACULTA-INBA-UNAM-IIE-BANAMEX, 2003, pp.102.
