Biography
Degrees:
B.A. in History. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2017.
M.A. in History. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2021.
M.A. in History. University of California, Irvine, 2024.
Advisors: Dr. Heidi Tinsman and Dr. Anita Casavantes Bradford.
Research Interests: History of Latin America and the Caribbean, Cold War History, History of Gender, History of Childhood.
Dissertation project:
"Legitimate Families: Children’s and Women’s Rights in Socialist Chile and Cuba."
Description:
My dissertation explores the political processes and debates on children’s and women’s rights that culminated in new policies for children and parents during the socialist projects of the Cuban Revolution and the Popular Unity in Chile. Stretching from the 1930s to the 1979 International Year of the Child, this dissertation bridges pre- and post-revolutionary periods to show how socialist projects built on the organizing of feminist groups, which advocated for children’s rights as essential to the equality of citizens and families. Specifically, my research centers on the tensions between these Leftist and feminist movements with the Cuban and Chilean states, in relation to the issue of illegitimacy (people born out-of-wedlock) and the gendered division of parental authority and responsibility.