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Sandra Aguilar

Sandra Aguilar

Dr. Sandra Aguilar

Associate Professor of History

Office: Comenius Hall 302
Phone: 610-625-7957
Email: aguilars@moravian.edu

Education

  • B.A., Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico
  • M.Phil, University of Oxford
  • Ph.D., University of Manchester

Teaching: I offer courses in colonial and modern Latin American and Mexican history. I also teach seminars of race, food, class and gender in Latin America. 

Current Research: My research explores food and foodways from the perspective of women by looking at nutrition discourses and daily practices in Mexico between 1920-1960. I emphasize how cooking and eating became an arena to define and transform the working class, and the implications of this process to the reproduction of race and gender. 

Selected Publications

Articles, Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries:

  • 鈥淏etween Women: Female Health Workers and the Struggle to Transform Diets in Rural Mexico, 1920-1960.鈥 Anuario De Historia De Am茅rica Latina, 59, 2023. pp. 41鈥63.  

  • "El alimento m谩s completo: debates y pr谩cticas sobre el consumo de leche en M茅xico," Hist贸ria, Ci锚ncias, Sa煤de - Manguinhos, 28:4, 2021, pp. 1201-1219.

  • "Alimentaci贸n, nutrici贸n y raza en el M茅xico posrevolucionario (1930-1950)" in El hambre de los otros. Ciencia y pol铆ticas alimentarias en Latinoam茅rica, siglos XX y XXI, ed. Stefan Pohl-Valero and Joel Vargas Dom铆nguez, Universidad del Rosario: Bogot谩, Colombia, 2021. 
  • "Homemaking in 1950s Mexico: Women, Class and Race through the Kitchen Window" in Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives o the Gastronarratives, ed. Roc铆o del Aguila and Vanesa Miseres, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021.
  • "鈥楲as penas con pan son menos鈥: Race, Modernity and Wheat in Modern Mexico." Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 87:1, 2020
  • "Raza y alimentaci贸n en el M茅xico del siglo XX," Revista Interdisciplina, 7:19, 2019, pp.119-138.
  • "Mole and Mestizaje: Race and National Identity in twentieth-century Mexico," Food, Culture & Society, 21:5, 2018, pp. 600-617.
  • "Industrias del hogar: mujeres, raza y moral en el M茅xico posrevolucionario," Revista de Historia Iberoamericana, 9:1, 2016.
  • Entry on 鈥淐hocolate鈥, in Eric Zolov (ed.), Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Z贸calo, ABC-CLIO, 2015.
  • 鈥淔ood and Technology in 1940s and 1950s Mexico,鈥 in Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman (eds.),Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century Mexico, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2013.
  • 鈥淣utrition and Modernity: Milk Consumption in 1940s and 1950s Mexico,鈥 Radical History Review, Special Issue on Radical Foodways, 110 (Spring), 2011, pp. 36-58.
  • 鈥淟a mesa est谩 servida: comida y vida cotidiana en el M茅xico de mediados del siglo XX,鈥 Revista deHistoria Iberoamericana, 2:2, 2009, pp. 52-85.
  • 鈥淎limentando la naci贸n: g茅nero y nutrici贸n en M茅xico (1940-1960),鈥 Revista de Estudios Sociales, Special Issue on History of Food and Food in History, 29 (April), 2008, pp. 28-40
  • 鈥淩ural-Urban Migration in Latin America,鈥 entry in Encyclopedia of the Modern World. 1750 to the Present,New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • 鈥淐ooking Modernity: Nutrition Policies, Class, and Gender in 1940s and 1950s Mexico City,鈥 The Americas, 64:2 (October), 2007, pp. 177-205.
  • "Chocolate", in Eric Zolov (ed.), Icons of Mexico, ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
  • "Cooking Technologies and Electrical Appliances in 1940s and 1950s Mexico," in Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman (eds.), Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century Mexico, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Book Reviews:

  • Review of Germ谩n Pati帽o Ossa, "Black Cookstove: Meditations of Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia", Confluencia, 37:1, (fall) 2021.
  • Review of Ann Shelby Blum, Domestic Economies: Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884-1943. H-Childhood, H-Net Reviews. August, 2010. URL: 
  • Review of Jocelyn Olcott 鈥淩evolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico,鈥 Journal of Peasant Studies,35:2 (July), 2008, pp. 353-355.
  • Review of Anny Brooksbank Jones and Ronald Munk 鈥淐ultural Politics in Latin America,鈥 Bicentenario, 2:3, 2003, pp. 181-183.