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Richard Gilder Americas Scholar

With the generous support of the Gilder Foundation, the HRC awards an Americas Scholar position to Moramay López-Alonso.

Moramay B&W Dr. López-ALonso, a historian and economist with a doctorate in Latin American history from Stanford University, has served as advisor to the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico. She also has been visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at Rice, and is currently finishing a project on living standards in Mexico from 1850 to 1950. Dr. López-Alonso joins the HRC to develop new academic initiatives in collaboration with Mexican institutions and communities.

Dr. López-Alonso has initiated and oversees the collaboration of Instituto Mora in Mexico City with the the Our Americas Archive Partnership making important historical documents from across the western hemisphere publicly available for pedagogical purposes and research. In addition, she serves on the HRC Americas Colloquium steering committee, contributing a chapter to its book Teaching the Americas.



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