In May 2019, she joined the Humanities Coordination at UNAM to work on the University Program of Asia, Africa, and Oceania Studies, holding a C Full-Time Associate Researcher position. She currently holds the status of National Researcher Level 1 in the National System of Researchers of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI), which she joined as a candidate in 2014, obtaining Level 1 status from 2019. She has been a Republic of Korea government fellow for her doctoral studies at Hanyang University in Seoul and for Korean language studies at Kyung Hee University in the Republic of Korea. In 2011, she graduated as the first Latin American with a doctorate in Korean Studies. During her time in Korea, she was a professor at Hansei University, Chung Ang University, and Seoul National University. She was also a Korea Foundation Fellow for a research stay in the Republic of Korea and has been also awarded for a research stay by the Academy of Korean Studies. She was a fellow of the former CONACyT (National Council of Sciences) as part of the Repatriation Program and was also she got a fellowship by the same institution to study her master's studies at El Colegio de México, where she enrolled after completing her bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology at the Autonomous Metropolitan University-Iztapalapa. In the PUEAAO, she has developed various research projects, published academic articles in peer-reviewed journals, SCOPUS journals in her specialization area. She has also published academic articles and book chapters on the Republic of Korea in English and Korean and has coordinated two books on the Korean Peninsula. She has designed and coordinated courses, given lectures, conducted media interviews, and presented at various national and international forums in her field. She has also participated as a lecturer in the Bachelor of Intercultural Development and Management program at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the UNAM since 2019. Her research focuses on contemporary Korean culture and society and phenomena related to cultural consumption, such as the Korean Wave in Mexico, women's and gender studies in the Republic of Korea, and other sociocultural aspects of Korean history.
México y la República de Corea Caminando hacia un Tratado de Libre Comercio plasma los intereses de ambas naciones para lograr un acuerdo comercial a más de 60 años del establecimiento de sus relaciones diplomáticas. A través de cada capítulo, el libro ofrece múltiples perspectivas y temáticas interdisciplinarias sobre los intereses y las posibilidades para entablar un Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) que elimine aranceles y barreras comerciales que la asociación estratégica del 2001 no logró. Este volumen representa un esfuerzo colectivo por comprender, desde una mirada integral, los escenarios futuros de la relación bilateral, al mismo tiempo que sugiere la conciliación de acuerdos para el intercambio comercial que también promuevan el desarrollo equitativo y el bienestar social en ambas naciones.
Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia reúne los escritos de 15 integrantes del Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia y África (PUEAA), quienes recurren al género epistolario a fin de plasmar sus vivencias durante la pandemia por Covid-19.
Como escribe Alicia Girón, los integrantes del PUEAA "soñábamos con realizar actividades en diferentes lugares, como Corea, China, Japón, India, Marruecos, Senegal, Sudáfrica y España [...] pero todo cambió el 16 de marzo, cuando se decretó el cierre de todas las actividades". Así, las cartas contenidas en este libro están dirigidas en su mayoría a seres queridos o admirados que viven fuera de México. De este modo, los autores nos permiten vislumbrar no sólo su propio mundo privado e intereses de estudio sino también el de sus interlocutores, dándonos por ende una muestra de su sensibilidad ante un evento que ha afectado a todo el mundo. En efecto, la variedad de termas expuestos en las cartas van desde la nostalgia del encuentro físico, hasta la angustia debido al número de muertos y contagiados, pasando por los avatares de la vida cotidiana.
Acompañado de las ilustraciones de Yussef A. Galicia, Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia revela con delicadeza el "compromiso de cada autor [...] tuvo para transmitir sus vivencias durante la pandemia de Covid-19 en el 2020".
The Korean peninsula is one of the regions that are currently under constant observation in the complex international mosaic. Characterized by its peculiar economic and political dynamics, today it has an emerging cultural representation that has managed to transcend the world.
For this reason, this book deals with topics that contribute to the understanding of the problems that define part of the current peninsular reality. It analyzes economic and political issues, which are undoubtedly essential for approaching the study of the Korean peninsula. However, the book reflects on the importance of the study of both Koreas from a social and cultural perspective, providing the reader with a human and deep analysis of the Korean societies, allowing them to learn about and reflect on phenomena and problems of the peninsular daily life.
In this way, under a multidisciplinary approach, the importance of each of the Republics in the current world context is shown, a perspective that also combines fundamental issues on culture and society such as religion, language and cultural consumption.