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 emergence of the reproductive rights movement in Mexico after the 1970s and the efforts of feminist coalitions which ultimately demonstrated the early makings of a reproductive justice agenda in Mexico. She also examines everyday women’s experiences and how they shaped both the reproductive rights movement and politics around family planning in Mexico.
Publications
Book Reviews:
- Hernandez, Vivian V. Review of Elizabeth O’Brien, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023). Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 2025.
Articles:
- “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
- “”Nos interesa a todas’: Voluntary Motherhood and Reproductive Rights Activism in Late-Twentieth Century Mexico”, April 2022, 72nd Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Ottawa, Canada.
- “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.
