Genevieve Galán Tamés

Genevieve Galán Tamés

She has a doctorate in History from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France. Candidate for Researcher of the National System of Researchers. She graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree in History from the Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City. She has completed two postdoctoral stays; one at the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, with a Conacyt scholarship from 2015 to 2016, and from 2019 to 2020. Another, at the Institute of Historical Research of the UNAM from 2017 to 2019. He has taught classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Department of History at the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, since 2013; She has actively collaborated in the Living History program of IBERO CDMX and Banamex; and in August 2022 she assumes the Coordination of the Bachelor's Degree in History. She has also been a professor at the College of History, at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM; where she served as a tutor, from 2020 to 2022, within the framework of the Academic Tutoring program of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She has given seminars at 17, Institute for Critical Studies; the Marist University of Mérida; and the Institute of Historical Research of the UNAM. Among her lines of research and topics of interest, hertoriography, the history of the body and the historiography of the body stand out. She is the author, among other texts, of the book: Corpse, dust, shadow, nothing: A history of female bodies in the convents of Mexico City, 17th century, Mexico, Ediciones Navarra, 2017. Among her latest publications are the following book chapters: “Modern readings of the human body: José Sánchez Samoano, the traveling gymnast” in Itzel Toledo García and José Enrique Covarrubias (coords.), Travelers in Porfirian Mexico (1876-1911), Institute of Historical Research-UNAM, 2022; “Memory as a perspective of analysis and observation in the writing of recent history. A historiographic reflection” in Miguel Segundo and Rafael Pérez Taylor (coords.), The construction of memory in Mexico, 16th-21st centuries, Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2021; and “Female bodies, instruments and spaces for exercise (1875-1915)” in María José Garrido Asperó and Regina Hernández Franyuti (coords.), The sporting phenomenon in Mexico, 1875-1968. Essays on its social, cultural and political history, Mexico, Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute, 2021. And the articles: “From the body that is represented to the body that is felt. Georges Vigarello and the study of the body in history” in Fuentes Humanísticas Magazine, no. 63, 2021; and “Exercising the body: female gymnastics at the Colegio de la Paz (Vizcaínas), 1875-1915” in Secuencia. Magazine of history and social sciences, Mexico, no. 109, January-April 2021.