Biography
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, History of Gender and Sexualities, History of Childhood, Cold War History, Modern Chile, Modern Cuba.
My dissertation tentatively titled "Legitimate Families: Children's and Women's Rights in Socialist Chile and Cuba," explores the political processes and debates on children’s and women’s rights that culminated in new childhood policies, particularly for children born out-of-wedlock during the socialist projects of the Cuban Revolution and the Popular Unity in Chile. This dissertation bridges pre- and post-revolutionary periods to show how these socialist political projects built on the organizing of feminist groups from the 1930s and 1940s, which advocated for children’s rights as essential to the equality of citizens and families.
Publications
De "apolíticas" a militantes. La incorporación de mujeres al Partido Conservador chileno (1934-1952). Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2022.
“La municipalidad y la casa: roles de género en el debate sobre el sufragio femenino y los gobiernos locales en Chile (1910-1935). Contemporánea. Historia y Problemas del siglo XX, 13.2 (2020): 31-44. Special Issue on “The Emergence of Feminism in Latin America in the Early 20th Century,” edited by Inés Cuadro Cawen & Marcela Vignoli https://ojs.fhce.edu.uy/index.php/cont/article/view/813
“¡Será belleza y espíritu al servicio de la Patria! La acción de la Falange Femenina en la integración de la mujer en la esfera política chilena (1941- 1949).” In Álvarez, R.; Gálvez, A., and M. Loyola, eds. Mujeres y política en Chile, siglos XIX y XX. Ariadna Ediciones, 2019, 189-210.