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Elena Albarrán is a cultural historian of modern Mexico with research emphasis on childhood and visual culture. She is the author of Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) and co-editor of New Approaches to the History of Childhood in Latin America: Between Practice and Representations (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012).

Recent Publications

Books

Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism. The Mexican Experience

Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Winner of the María Elena Martínez Book Prize for best book in Mexican history, Conference of Latin American History (CLAH), 2016.

Nuevas miradas a la historia de la infancia en América Latina: entre prácticas y representaciones. Serie

Historia Moderna y Contemporánea.  Susana Sosenski and Elena Jackson Albarrán, eds. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

“Prólogo: Infancias y juventudes en la historia latinoamericana (siglo XX),” Infâncias y juventudes no

século XX: histórias latino-americanas. Eds. Silvia Maria F. Arend, Esmeralda Blanco B. de Moura, and Susana Sosenski. Ponta Grossa [Brazil]: Editora Todapalavra, 2018, pp. 13-20.

“Los niños colaboradores de la revista Pulgarcito y la construcción de la infancia, México

1925-1932,” Iberoamericana 15:60 (2015): 155-168.  Honorable Mention for the Fass-Sandin

Prize for the Best Article on the History of Childhood and Youth (Spanish and French).

“Boy Scouts under the Aztec Sun: Mexican Youth and the Transnational Construction of Identity, 1927-

1940.” Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Richard Ivan Jobs and David Pomfret.  London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. pp. 45-69.

“El niño proletario: Jesús Sansón Flores and the New Revolutionary Redeemer, 1935-1938.” Mexico in

Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power. Eds. Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. Pp. 218-256.

“Los Exploradores, la Cruz Roja de la Juventud, y la expresión infantil de nacionalismo. México, 1920-

1940.” Nuevas miradas a la historia de la infancia en América Latina: entre prácticas y representaciones. Eds. Susana Sosenski and Elena Jackson Albarrán. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,  2012. Pp. 241-272.

“En busca de la voz de los herederos de la Revolución. Un análisis de los documentos producidos por los

niños, 1921-1940,” Relaciones, estudios de historia y sociedad.  Special issue: Infancia: Un archipiélago por explorar. Vol. XXXIII, n. 132 (Fall 2012): 17-52.

“Comino vence al diablo and Other Terrifying Episodes: Itinerant Children’s Puppet Theater in 1930s

Mexico,” The Americas, v. 67, n. 3 (January 2011): 355-374.

“A Century of Childhood: Growing Up in Twentieth-Century Mexico.” A Companion to Mexican History

and Culture. Ed. William H. Beezley. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. 575-588 (Recipient of the Meyer Book Award, Special Commendation, 2013).

“Guerrilla Warplay: The Infantilization of War in Latin American Popular Culture.” Studies in Latin

American Popular Culture vol. 24 (2005): 69-81

 

Encyclopedia Entries

“The Three Faces of the Family, 1870-present.” Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Latin American

History [online]. Ed. William H. Beezley.  September 2015.

Encyclopedia entries, “Sombrero” and “Adelita,” In Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from

Acapulco to Zócalo. Ed. Eric Zolov. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2015. Pp. 7-13, 541-7.

Entries (4).  Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture and Society in the United States. New York:

Scholastic Library Publishing, 2005.

Media Coverage

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Country Focus

Mexico

Expertise by Geography

Latin America

Expertise by Chronology

20th century

Expertise by Topic

Children & Youth