Dr. Sandra Aguilar
Professor of History
Office: Comenius Hall 302
Phone: 610-625-7957
Email: aguilars@moravian.edu
Education
- B.A., Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico
- M.Phil, University of Oxford
- Ph.D., University of Manchester
Teaching: I offer courses in colonial and modern Latin American and Mexican history. I also teach seminars of race, food, class and gender in Latin America.
Current Research: My research explores food and foodways from the perspective of women by looking at nutrition discourses and daily practices in Mexico between 1920-1960. I emphasize how cooking and eating became an arena to define and transform the working class, and the implications of this process to the reproduction of race and gender.
Selected Publications
Articles, Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries:
- Between Women: Female Health Workers and the Struggle to Transform Diets in Rural Mexico, 1920-1960. Anuario De Historia De Am矇rica Latina, 59, 2023. pp. 4163.
- "El alimento m獺s completo: debates y pr獺cticas sobre el consumo de leche en M矇xico," Hist籀ria, Ci礙ncias, Sa繳de - Manguinhos, 28:4, 2021, pp. 1201-1219.
- "Alimentaci籀n, nutrici籀n y raza en el M矇xico posrevolucionario (1930-1950)" in El hambre de los otros. Ciencia y pol穩ticas alimentarias en Latinoam矇rica, siglos XX y XXI, ed. Stefan Pohl-Valero and Joel Vargas Dom穩nguez, Universidad del Rosario: Bogot獺, Colombia, 2021.
- "Homemaking in 1950s Mexico: Women, Class and Race through the Kitchen Window" in Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives o the Gastronarratives, ed. Roc穩o del Aguila and Vanesa Miseres, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021.
- "Las penas con pan son menos: Race, Modernity and Wheat in Modern Mexico." Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 87:1, 2020
- "Raza y alimentaci籀n en el M矇xico del siglo XX," Revista Interdisciplina, 7:19, 2019, pp.119-138.
- "Mole and Mestizaje: Race and National Identity in twentieth-century Mexico," Food, Culture & Society, 21:5, 2018, pp. 600-617.
- "Industrias del hogar: mujeres, raza y moral en el M矇xico posrevolucionario," Revista de Historia Iberoamericana, 9:1, 2016.
- Entry on Chocolate, in Eric Zolov (ed.), Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Z籀calo, ABC-CLIO, 2015.
- Food and Technology in 1940s and 1950s Mexico, in Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman (eds.),Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century Mexico, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2013.
- Nutrition and Modernity: Milk Consumption in 1940s and 1950s Mexico, Radical History Review, Special Issue on Radical Foodways, 110 (Spring), 2011, pp. 36-58.
- La mesa est獺 servida: comida y vida cotidiana en el M矇xico de mediados del siglo XX, Revista deHistoria Iberoamericana, 2:2, 2009, pp. 52-85.
- Alimentando la naci籀n: g矇nero y nutrici籀n en M矇xico (1940-1960), Revista de Estudios Sociales, Special Issue on History of Food and Food in History, 29 (April), 2008, pp. 28-40
- Rural-Urban Migration in Latin America, entry in Encyclopedia of the Modern World. 1750 to the Present,New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Cooking Modernity: Nutrition Policies, Class, and Gender in 1940s and 1950s Mexico City, The Americas, 64:2 (October), 2007, pp. 177-205.
- "Chocolate", in Eric Zolov (ed.), Icons of Mexico, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
- "Cooking Technologies and Electrical Appliances in 1940s and 1950s Mexico," in Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman (eds.), Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century Mexico, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Book Reviews:
- Review of Germ獺n Pati簽o Ossa, "Black Cookstove: Meditations of Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia", Confluencia, 37:1, (fall) 2021.
- Review of Ann Shelby Blum, Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943. H-Childhood, H-Net Reviews. August, 2010. URL:
- Review of Jocelyn Olcott Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Journal of Peasant Studies,35:2 (July), 2008, pp. 353-355.
- Review of Anny Brooksbank Jones and Ronald Munk Cultural Politics in Latin America, Bicentenario, 2:3, 2003, pp. 181-183.