Danna Levin Rojo
(Mexico City, April 8th 1966)
Full time researcher-lecturer at the
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco, Mexico), where she is
assigned to the Masters program on Mexican Historiography run by the Research
Group on History and Historiography. Her main research topics are: colonialism,
alterity and transculturation in Hispanic America (16th century), and
American colonial historiography.
PhD (2001) and M. Sc. (1994) in Social Anthropology awarded
by the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE),
where she submitted the PhD dissertation titled: A way back to Aztlan:
Sixteenth century Hispanic-Nahuatl transculturation and the construction of the
New Mexico. Previously, she obtained the B. A. in History (Licenciatura) at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1993).
Between
1989 and 1991 she was full time researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Estudios
Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana (INEHRM) where, in
collaboration with Adriana Konzevik Cabib, she wrote the sections on the States
of Coahuila and Chihuahua for
the Diccionario Biográfico, Histórico y Geográfico de
la Revolución Mexicana (1992) and edited, with Guillermina de Olloqui, the
anthology titled En torno a la democracia. El sufragio efectivo y la no
reelección (1890-1928) (1992). Between 1991 and 1993 she collaborated with the Project
“Historia de la Historiografía Mexicana” coordinated by Dr. Juan Ortega y Medina and Rosa Camelo and in 1993 she was
full-time researcher at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato (INAH).
Among her recent publications are:
"Utopias", in: David Carrasco (ed.)The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Mesoamerican Cultures, (New York, Oxford University Press,
2001) and "The road to Aztlan
ends in New Mexico", in: Virginia M. Fields & Víctor Zamudio
Taylor (eds.) The Road to Aztlán. Art from a Mythic Homeland (Los Angeles, Cal., Los Angeles County
Museum of Arts, 2001)
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