Vivian V. Hernandez
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Biography
Vivian is a History PhD student at UCLA, where she studies modern Latin American women’s and gender history. Her research focuses on the introduction of the birth control pill in Mexico during the 1960s and the social and cultural impacts it had on Mexican society. Vivian also explores the trajectory of the reproductive rights movement in Mexico since the 1970s.
Publications
- “The Pill and Its Impacts on American Society, 1960-1988” The Chico Historian, April 2022.
- “Women’s Fertility and Social Transformation in Modern Mexico, 1968-1988,” The Chico Historian, March 2021.
Awards & Grants
- Graduate Research Mentorship Program, 2024-2025
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program, 2024
- Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program, 2023
- Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, 2022-2026
- California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) 2022-2023 Fellow
- California State University (CSU) Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement 2021-2022
- California Pre-Doctoral Program, Sally Casanova Scholar 2021-2022
- Phi Alpha Theta, 2019
Conference Presentations
- “Remnants of the Past: Colonialism and Reproduction in 20th-Century Mexico” June 2024, LASA2024, Bogotá, Colombia
- “Women’s Fertility and Social Transformation in Modern Mexico, 1968-1988” 68th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Virtual, March 2021.
