Participant Info
- First Name
- Diana
- Last Name
- Ávila Hernández
- Country
- Mexico
- State
- diana.avila.unam@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Freelance Researcher
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Contemporary Mexican History, Social Movements, Mentalities, Film Research, Military History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- E-mail: diana.avilahdz@icloud.com
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- 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 Comisión de la Verdad de la Guerra Sucia; mainly in the Dirección General de Archivo e Historia of Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), until March 2024. In the last months of the year returned to collaborate with the Proceso magazine.
To date, have accumulated more than 8 years of experience as an independent researcher in Mexican public archives and writer of several pieces about archives in Mexico.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- https://www.proceso.com.mx/autor/diana-avila.html
- Social Media
- www.instagram.com/cazadora_recolectora/
- 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
