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

(México City, 1990). I studied History at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Since 2017 I have assisted the documental research of almost twenty national and foreign specialists; in 2017 I began participating in The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS) from Northwestern University, The Center for Research Libraries, El Colegio de Mexico y Article 19. Then in 2018 I worked as a researcher in the documentary feature film Oblatos, el vuelo que surcó la noche, directed by Acelo Ruiz and produced for the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (México, 2019). Between 2016 and 2022 I collaborated at the Proceso agency and magazine. Then in May 2022-March 2024, I research for the Mecanismo de Esclarecimiento Histórico of the Comisión para el Acceso a la Verdad, el Esclarecimiento Histórico y el Impulso a la Justicia de las Violaciones Graves a los Derechos Humanos cometidas de 1965-1990, of the Mexican government.

Recent Publications

http://www.iib.unam.mx/files/iib/nueva-gaceta-bibliografica/nueva-gaceta-bibliografica-num-69.pdf

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

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

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