Richard Gilder Americas Research
This year, with the generous support of the Gilder Foundation, the HRC awards a research fellowship to Moramay López-Alonso.
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Dr. López-ALonso, a historian and economist with a doctorate in Latin American history from Stanford University, has served as advisor to the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico. She also has been visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at Rice, and is currently finishing a project on living standards in Mexico from 1850 to 1950. Dr. López-Alonso joins the HRC to develop new academic initiatives in collaboration with Mexican institutions and communities. |
This fall Dr. López-Alonso is organizing a collaboration with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy's Latin Americas Initiative, a lecture series called "Mexicans Look at Mexico." Please visit
www.publichumanities.org for a complete description of this program and its speakers.
In addition, she joins the Americas Colloquium steering committee, contributing a chapter to its book Teaching the Americas. She also contributes to the continued development of the Our Americas Archive Partnership with the University of Maryland, making important historical documents from across the western hemisphere publicly available for pedagogical purposes by means of the Connexions Initiative.
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