Sara Sefchovich

Bachelor's and a master’s degree in Sociology and a Ph.D. in History of Mexico by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has been a researcher and a professor for 4 decades; moreover, she has developed as a professor and a lecturer in Mexico, the United States and Canada. Besides, she worked as a translator and media analyst in the news program “The monitor of the morning” conducted by José Gutiérrez Vivo for eight years, and in the newspaper "El Universal" for twenty years.

She has published essay books, novels, more than thirty chapters in collective books, more than a hundred academic articles and more than a thousand journalistic articles in national and foreign magazines and newspapers, periodically she gives courses and conferences at the UNAM and at universities in Mexico, United States. United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.

Her work has been translated into six languages and published in ten countries and has been taken to radio, film and theater. She has been awarded the Gabino Barreda Medal from UNAM, the Inba-Fonapas essay scholarship, the Plural Essay Prize, the Agustín Yáñez-Planeta novel prize, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Scholarship in New York, the Leona Gerard Endowed Lecture de the University of California, the Manuel Levinsky Award from the Association of Israeli Journalists and Writers of Mexico, the Omecíhuatl medal from the National Institute of Women of Mexico, the Clementina Díaz and Ovando Award for Career in Cultural, Social and Gender History of the National Institute for Historical Studies of the Revolutions of Mexico. She belongs to the National Researchers System.