School of Social and Political Science

Background

• 2019-2022. PhD in Sociology. The University of Edinburgh. Thesis title: “You have to do everything in your power so that this does not happen to anyone else”. Contention dynamics against the Mexican war on drugs and crime: a case study of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity.
• 2013-2015. MA in Political Science. El Colegio de México. Thesis title: Ley General de Víctimas, un resultado político del Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad (General Law for Victims, a political outcome of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity).
• 2008-2012. BA in Communication Science.

Published work

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• Social movements and political-emotional communities. An approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico. Social Movement Studies. ONLINE FIRST.
• “Such a radical essence”: Political socialization among victims’ relatives in the Mexican war on drugs and crime. Mobilization: an International Quarterly, 28(1), 2023.
• Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad: Consecuencias culturales (Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity: Cultural Outcomes). Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 85(2), 2023.
• Dinámicas de reclutamiento: El Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad (Dynamics of recruitment: the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity). Estudios Sociológicos, 41(122), 2023.
• Resonant frames, but failed alliances. The upward scale shift of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 10(2), 2022.
• Lenguaje de derechos y apertura de oportunidades legales para el cambio social: El Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad y la Ley General de Víctimas (Rights Language and New Legal Opportunities for Social Change: Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity and the General Law of Victims). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, 65(239), 2020.
• Book review. "Ernesto Castañeda y Cathy Lisa Schneider (eds.). Charles Tilly: sobre violencia colectiva, política contenciosa y cambio social". Foro Internacional, 63(2), 2023.
• Book review. “Carlos Illades. Conflict, Domination and Violence: Episodes in Mexican Social History”. Social Movement Studies, 19(1), 2019.

Conferences

• Social movements and political-emotional communities. An approach from the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico. Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference, The University of Manchester. June 2022.
• Recruitment in social movements against the Mexican war on drugs and crime. Biographical contrasts between activists and relatives of victims. Latin American Peace Science Society Annual Conference, January 2022
• Alineamiento y resonancia de los marcos de movilización legal en México (Alignment and resonance of legal mobilisation frames in Mexico). Coloquio Hacia una fundamentación contrahegemónica de los derechos humanos. National Autonomous University of Mexico, June 2021.
• “We are fucking fed-up”. Recruitment dynamics of activists and relatives of victims of criminal violence. Alternative Futures and Popular Protest. The University of Manchester, June 2021.
• Official denials and victims’ paths of mobilisation: the case of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity in Mexico. New Directions Conference, The University of Edinburgh, April 2019.
• Apertura de oportunidades legales desde los movimientos sociales (Opening of legal opportunities by social movements). Institutional seminar: Participatory governance, public advocacy and social change, UNAM, Mexico, September 2018.
• Ausencia de la izquierda partidista en los movimientos sociales de víctimas en México (Absence of the partisan left in the social movements of victims in Mexico). VI National Congress of Social Sciences, Mexico, March 2018.
• Legal Mobilisation in Mexico: The case of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity and the General Law for Victims. International Meeting on Law and Society, Mexico, June 2017.

Teaching experience

• Sociology 1A. The Sociological Imagination: Individuals and Society.
• Sociology 1B. The Sociological Imagination: Private Troubles, Public Problems.

Awards and grants

• 2019-2022 Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt), Scholarship for Abroad Postgraduate Studies.
• 2015 Adrián Lajous Award for the best Political Science thesis. El Colegio de México.
• 2013-2015 Conacyt scholarship for quality postgraduate programs.