Hidalgo Garza, Sara

Sara Hidalgo is a P.h.D. candidate in Latin American history at Columbia University. Her interests include the history labor, welfare, family and public health in Latin America.

Her doctoral dissertation, preliminary titled "Informal Lives: Family, Labor and Welfare in mid-20^th century Mexico, examines the history of welfare policies and its relationship to informal labor in mid-20th century Mexico. 

Publications

• “Defining a simple domestic: Domestic Workers, the Supreme Court, and the Law in Post-revolutionary Mexico, 1931-1970,” Forthcoming in International Labor and Working-Class History, (2019).
• “Hacia una cultura de la prevención: higiene, campañas sanitarias y medicina social en México”, Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México, 54 (2017).
• “Prologue” to Jean Meyer, Una Revolución Tras Otra. México: El Colegio de México, 2013.

Experience

In addition to her dissertation writing, Sara has experience translating academic work, teaching at Columbia University, and has worked at history museums and other cultural institutions.