History Seminar: Mujeres en la esfera pública en Bolivia de la Guerra del Chaco a la Revolución Nacional (1935-1952)

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Maria Elvira Alvarez Gimenez, CY Cergy Paris University

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Maria Elvira Alvarez Gimenez (PhD in History, agrégée in Hispanic Studies) is a tenured Associate Professor at CY Cergy Paris University and a researcher at AGORA Laboratory. She studied History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. In 2018 she defended a PhD dissertation on the role that women played in the public sphere in Bolivia from the Chaco War to the National Revolution (1935-1952), a topic she will discuss at the seminar. In 2014 she was awarded a research fellowship as a visiting scholar at Duke University, and in 2010 an Alliance Program scholarship to attend Columbia University as an exchange student. 
In 2015 she received the « Ida Smedley Maclean » excellence fellowship for her PhD dissertation from Graduate Women International. 
In 2017, she published a book entitled Mouvement féministe et droit de vote en Bolivie (1920-1952) (Teseo Press, Buenos Aires). She has also published several articles in journals such as the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos, Amérique Latine, Histoire & Mémoire (Cahiers d'ALHIM), among others.