Ana Victoria Gaxiola Lazcano

Name: Ana Victoria Gaxiola Lazcano
Title
Organisation: Sociology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
Address: Edinburgh UK
Telephone
E-Mail: s1673765@sms.ed.ac.uk
Research Interests: Historical sociology, Social movements, State building, Social network analysis, Political Sociology, Latin America, Corporatism, labour movements
URL: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/sociology/ana_victoria_gaxiola_lazcano

Education

(2004-2008) Bachelor degree in History. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

(2012-2014) Master in Political Sociology. Institute of Investigations José María Luis Mora.

Research experience


From August 2011 to July 2012	El Colegio de México (COLMEX) Centro de Estudios Históricos Research assistant Dr. Juan Pedro Viqueira. As the assistant of professor Juan Pedro Viqueira, my job was to digitalize his personal archive. As well, I helped him with the elaboration of historical maps from the Mexican state of Chiapas for a project of historical geography he was developing at the moment.

From July 2011 to July 2012	Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Research assistant of Dra. Graciela Alcalá. During the time I worked with professor Alcalá she was developing a research project regarding the worth of the population in the states of South East Mexico. What I did while working for her was to search for statics of social indicators and to organize them into graphics.

From October 2007 to January 2011	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales Research assistant of Dr. Ricardo Pozas Horcasistas As a research assistant for professor Pozas, my job was to research and analyze information in archives, newspapers and other sources about the Mexican society and political system during the decade of the sixties.

Academic Congresses

2016

European Social Science History Conference organized by The International Institute for Social History, Valencia, Spain. Paper: “The left Wing Fights for Democratization in Authoritarian Mexico (1958-1965)”.

2014

Social Movements Congress, organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). “Without land, there will be an invasion. The agrarian invasions in North West Mexico (1958)”

2009

XIII National Meeting of History Students. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México. Paper: “The Killing of Ruben Jaramillo”