Sara Hidalgo
sara.hidalgo@cide.edu
Current Position
AssistantProfessor, División de Historia, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas(CIDE) (since Jan. 2021)
Education
2020 Ph.D. Department of History, Columbia University,New York, NY
Advisor: Prof. PabloPiccato
2016 M.Phil.in Latin American History, Columbia University
2008 B.A. in International Relations, ElColegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Publications
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles:
2024 “Healing in the capital: medical journeys and hospitalcare in postrevolutionary Mexico,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 40,no. 3 (2024): 376-403.
2024 “Entre promesas y realidades: lafragmentación de la atención hospitalaria en México y el Centro MédicoNacional, 1940-1973, Historia Mexicana, núm. 294 (2024): 655-700.
2022 Dossiereditor, “Historias de la seguridad social en América Latina”, Istor,núm. 87, invierno 2021-2022: 3-10.
2019 “LaSuprema Corte y el trabajo del hogar en el derecho laboral mexicano: unarevisión histórica,” Revista del Ministerio Público de la Defensa de laNación, núm. 14 “Desigualdad Económica y Acceso a la Justicia,” December 2019:203-213.
2018 “Defininga ‘simple domestic’: Domestic Workers, the Supreme Court, and the Law inPost-revolutionary Mexico, 1931-1970,” InternationalLabor and Working-Class History, 95 (Fall 2018).
Reviews:
2017 “Hacia una culturade la prevención: higiene, campañas sanitarias y medicina social en México,” Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporáneade México, 54 (2017).
Media and other writing:
2019 “El trabajo delhogar ante la Suprema Corte,” Nexos, mayo 2019.
2017 “Raza y ciudadaníaen ambos lados de la frontera,” Nexos,marzo 2017
2015 “Trabajadorasdomésticas: las bases de su exclusión”, Horizontal,julio 2015.
2015 “Nosotras, lasmujeres cómodas”, Horizontal, marzo2015.
2015 “Manuel Velasco ola violencia de la desigualdad,” Horizontal,enero 2015.
2014 “Para discutir lasfamilias,” Nexos, julio 2014.
References available upon request.
Fellowshipsand Grants
2019 HonorificMention, “Charles A. Hale Fellowship for Mexican History,” Latin AmericanStudies Association, Boston, Estados Unidos, Mayo 2019.
2018 ConferenceTravel Grant, History Department, Columbia University
2018 ConferenceTravel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
2018 MexicoSection Award, Latin American StudiesAssociation, Barcelona, Spain, Mayo 2018.
2017 ConferenceTravel Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
2015 SummerField Research Travel Grant, Institute for Latin American Studies, ColumbiaUniversity
2015 Pre-dissertationTravel Grant, History Department, Columbia University
2013-2015 Fulbright García-Robles Fellowship fordoctoral studies
2013-2018 Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, ColumbiaUniversity
2009 ThesisWriting Fellowship, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México
2004-2008 StudentGrant, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México
2007 AcademicExcellence Fellowship, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México
ConferenceActivity
Panels organized:
2019 “New Histories of Public Health and SocialPolicy in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Association, Boston, May 24-27,2019. Coorganized with Teresa Huhle, Universität Bremen.
2016 “Gender and the Law in Latin AmericanHistory,” Latin American Studies Association, Nueva York, May 27-30, 2016.Co-organized with Rachel Nolan, Boston University.
Papers presented:
2024 “From dependents to servants: considerations fromrevolutionary Mexico”, Latin American Studies Association, Bogotá, Colombia, June12-15, 2024.
2022 “Salariomínimo vital, trabajo del hogar y dependencia en el México posrevolucionario,1917-1960”, Latin American Studies Association, virtual conference, May5-9, 2022.
2020 “Cárdenas and the Creation of the SAP”, AmericanHistorical Association, January 3-6, 2020.
2019 “For the Welfare of Workers: The Social SecurityLaw of 1943”, Conference in Latin American History, Chicago, January 3-6, 2019.
2018 “From Social Justice to Universal Healthcare:Tracing the Mexican Welfare State, 1937-2003,” Latin American StudiesAssociation, Barcelona, May 24-28, 2018.
2017 “Social Security vs. Social Assistance: The Makingof the Mexican Welfare State, 1943,” Law and Society Association, Mexico City, June20-23, 2017.
2017 “Post-revolutionaryLabor Law and the Origins of the Mexican Welfare State, 1931-1943,” Latin American Studies Association, Lima, April29- May 1, 2017.
2016 “Defining a “simple doméstico”: Domestic Workers, the Supreme Court, andthe Law in Post-revolutionary Mexico, 1931-1970.” XXIV International Congressof the Latin American Studies Association, New York, May 27-30, 2016.
2016 “Defining Workers”: Labor, Citizenship and the Lawin Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference, “Workin Latin America: New Approaches,” New York, April 30, 2016.
Panels chaired:
2017 “Exceptions and Exceptionalisms: Legal Theory andPractice in Twentieth-Century Latin America,” Law and Society Association,Mexico City, June 20-23, 2016.
Selected Invited Presentations
2024 “Gender and Race in Latin American Labor History,”Pittsburgh University, November 21, 2024.
2024 “Expandingthe State or Drawing Citizens to its Core: Considerations fromPostrevolutionary Mexico,” George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,March 17, 2024.
2023 “A la capitalpara curarse: Peregrinaciones médicas y asistenciales en el Méxicoposrevolucionario”, Seminario Permanente de Historia Social, El Colegio deMéxico, November 6, 2023.
2023 Speaker at “Elpéndulo político: América Latina entre dos polos”,Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México, September 22, 2023.
2022 “InformalLives: Welfare, Underemployment and Gender in Post-Revolutionary Mexico”, TheSocial Life of Work Seminar Series, Oxford University, October 26, 2022.
2020 “Lainformalización del trabajo del hogar en México”, Seminario Permanente deInvestigación del Centro de Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México, Januarty29, 2020.
2019 “WelfareReform and the Creation of IMSS in Mexico, 1943”, Seminario Permanente deHistoria Cultural y Social de la Salud y la Enfermedad en México, June 20,2019.
2019 “El trabajodel hogar ante la Suprema Corte: una revisión histórica”, Cuarta Semana de laSeguridad Social y el Empleo, Secretaría del Trabajo y Fomento al Empleo de laCiudad de México, May 24, 2019.
2019 “El trabajodel hogar ante la Suprema Corte: una revisión histórica”, ConferenciaInteramericana de Seguridad Social (CISS), April 2, 2019.
2019 “El trabajodoméstico ante la Suprema Corte mexicana: una historia inconclusa”, División deEstudios Jurídicos, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), March19, 2019.
2014 Discussantto Rafael Rojas, “La piel del socialismo: Carleton Beals y la RevoluciónCubana,” The Americas South Seminar, Columbia University.
Professional andinstitutional service
2024-present LibraryLiasion, División de Historia, CIDE
2024-present Juntade Profesores de la Maestría en Historia Internacional, División de Historia,CIDE
2024 Graduate admissions committee, División deHistoria, CIDE
2023 Fullbright-García Robles dissertation researchfellowship Committee
2023-2024 Juntade Profesores del Doctorado en Historia Aplicada, División de Historia, CIDE
2022 Jurymember, Premio Francisco Javier Clavijero to the Best History Thesis, InstitutoNacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)
2021-2022 Juntade Profesores de la Maestría en Historia Internacional, División de Historia,CIDE
2022 Graduate admissions committee, División deHistoria, CIDE
2015 Co-organizer, Columbia Latin American HistoryWorkshop
2015-2016 Centerfor Mexican Studies, Columbia University
Advisees
Graduate:
In course: Fernando Sinuhe Díaz Gómez (CIDE), Miguel Ángel RamírezSánchez, (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California), Zaira Jiménez Castro (CIDE)
Undergraduate:
Luisa Salomon Milne (CIDE)
ProfessionalNetworks and Affiliations
Latin American Studies Association
American Historical Association
Law and Society Association
The Conference on Latin American History
Seminario de Historia Social y cultural de la Salud y la Enfermedad enMéxico
RITHAL (Red Interdisciplinario sobre el Trabajo del Hogar en AméricaLatina)
Languages
Spanish (Native)
English (Full proficiency)
Italian (Full proficiency)
French (Reading proficiency)
Portuguese (Reading proficiency)