Research Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
2022 Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, Best Article in Social Sciences for article "Deadly Rumors: Lynching, Hearsay, and Hierarchies of Credibility in Mexico," in Journal of Social History (Vol. 55, No. 1)
2022 Best Book in Social Sciences Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press, 2020)
2022 Maria Elena Martinez Book Prize Honorable Mention, The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) for In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press, 2020)
2021 Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow, Mexico Institute
2021 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award, Institute for Citizens & Scholars
2021 Sujack Family Award for Excellence in Faculty Research, Loyola University Chicago
2021 Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University (declined)
2021 Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, Best Article in the Humanities Award, for article “The Lynching of the Impious: Violence, Politics, and Religion in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1930s–1950s)”
2020 The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for the project “In the Name of Christ: Religious Violence and its Legitimacy in Mexico (1920-2020)”
2020 NECLAS Best Article Award, New England Council of Latin American Studies, for the article “Lynching and the Politics of State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Puebla.”
2020 Research Support Grant, The Office of Research Services, Loyola University Chicago
2020 Summer Research Stipend, Office of the Provost, Loyola University Chicago
2019 Faculty Research Grant, Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH), Loyola University Chicago
2019 Summer Research Stipend, Office of the Provost, Loyola University Chicago
2017 Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame
2017 Visiting Research Scholarship, Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University (declined)
2016 Women in the Humanities Fellowship, awarded by the Mexican Academy of Sciences
2016 Matías Romero Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas at Austin
2016 Albert Salomon Memorial Award in Sociology for outstanding PhD thesis, New School for Social Research
2015 Charles A. Hale Fellowship in Mexican History Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
2014-2015 Visiting Graduate Fellow, Center for U.S. Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
2014-2015 New School for Social Research Fee Scholarship
2013-2014 Alfred and Cecile Mundheim Fellowship for outstanding students, New School for Social Research
2014 Teaching Fellowship, Sociology Eugene Lang College and Global Studies at The New School
2013-2014 Dissertation Fellowship, New School for Social Research
2013 Latin American Studies Association Travel Grant
2012-2013 Janey Rothenberg Fellowship, New School for Social Research
2012 National Council for Sciences and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) scholarship
2010-2012 Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Fellow, Awarded by the Janey Program for Latin American Studies at the New School
2008 -2013 Dean’s Fellowship, Awarded by the New School for Social Research
2008- 2011 Fulbright Scholar, Awarded by the US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
2008 Annual Fawcett Prize for outstanding academic work and dissertation, London School of Economics
2007- 2008 Chevening Scholarship, Awarded by the British Council in Mexico
2006 National Prize Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz awarded to the best undergraduate thesis on gender in Mexico. Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, Mexico
2005 EX ITAM Award, Special Mention for best thesis, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico
2002 Award for Academic Excellence, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico.