Participant Info

First Name
Diana
Last Name
Ávila Hernández
Affiliation
Freelance Researcher
Website URL
Keywords
Contemporary Mexican History, Social Movements, Mentalities, Film Research, Military History
Additional Contact Information
E-mail: diana.avilahdz@icloud.com

Personal Info

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About Me

(Mexico City, 1990). I studied History at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Since 2017, have assisted in documentary research of almost twenty national and foreign specialists; in 2017, started participating in The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS) from Northwestern University, The Center for Research Libraries, El Colegio de México, and Article 19. Later in 2018, research for the documentary feature film “Oblatos, el vuelo que surcó la noche,” directed by Acelo Ruiz and produced by the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Mexico, 2019). In the meantime was collaborating with Proceso magazine from 2016 until 2022. In May 2022, took up a public position at Subsecretaría de Gobernación de Derechos Humanos, Población y Migración, joined as a researcher of the Mecanismo de Esclarecimiento Histórico (MEH) of the Comisión de la Verdad de la Guerra Sucia, where I led documentary research in the military archive of the Dirección General de Archivo e Historia of the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), until June 2024.

To date, I have accumulated over nine years of experience conducting independent research in Mexican public archives and six years publishing archival research–based work.

Recent Publications

https://archivosdeinteligencia.mx/ 

https://www.proceso.com.mx/autor/diana-avila.html

https://www.proceso.com.mx/autor/dianaavila.html

Media Coverage
https://www.instagram.com/archivos_de_inteligencia_mx
Country Focus
Mexico
Expertise by Geography
Central America, Latin America
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Libraries & Archives, Military, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Women