Education

Since 09/2021	PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’, Berlin
Since 05/2019	PhD Candidate, Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México
08/2016 – 07/2019	Master of Arts (maestría) in Social Sciences, Universidad de Guadalajara
08/2009 – 04/2016	Bachelor of Arts (licenciatura) in History, Universidad de Guadalajara

Work Experience

Since 09/2021	Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’
Since 03/2021	Researcher, Global Astroculture International Research Group, New York University
Since 08/2016	Researcher, International Research Group “Religión y política” of Iberconceptos, Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad del País Vasco
Since 01/2017	Researcher, Project: “Experiencia histórica y producción social del espacio en comunidades en resistencia del occidente de México”, Universidad de Guadalajara
Since 08/2012	Researcher, Project: “El vocabulario de la secularización en México. Siglos XVIII-XX”, Universidad de Guadalajara

Project: "Astroculture and extraterrestrial future pasts in Mexico, 1960-1980"

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The cosmos has historically been a fertile space to imagine futures that go beyond the confines of the Earth, futures which are intimately linked to science and technology. However, existing historiographic explanations about our relationship with outer space have little or no capacity to clarify the place of Latin America in the cosmos, nor of the cosmos in Latin America. This project aims to present a polyphony about how different individuals and groups gave meaning to outer space between 1960 and 1980 in Mexico.

The objective of the project is to explain the formation and diffusion of astroculture in Mexico, understood as the historically variable ways of making sense of outer space, with emphasis on those temporalized towards the future. It aims to account for the mechanisms that individuals and collectivities used to spread astroculture and extraterrestrial socio-technical imaginaries in Mexico, including scientists, engineers, technicians, amateurs, diplomats, and bureaucrats. In addition to registering in the historiographic current of cultural studies of science and technology, the study intends to contribute to the discussion about presentism, the historiographic tendency to declare the end of the 20th century as the period of decline of modern thought which is characteristically futurized.