Vivian V. Hernandez
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Biography
Vivian is a History PhD candidate studying modern Latin American women’s and gender history. Her research focuses on the emergence of the reproductive rights movement in Mexico City after the 1970s, specifically the efforts made by feminist coalitions, and 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 late-twentieth and early twenty-first century 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
- Duke University Rubenstein Library Travel Grant, 2026-2027
- CSW | Streisand Center Constance Coiner Graduate Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2026
- CDIP Doctoral Education Support Grant, 2025-2026
- Silas Palmer Fellowship, 2025-2026
- CSW | Streisand Center Travel Grant, Fall 2024
- 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
- “Gobernanza reproductiva y activismo feminista en la Ciudad de México”, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2026 Congress, Session Organizer, Chair, and Panelist, Paris, France, May 2026.
- “Paternidad responsable y maternidad voluntaria: Debates biopolíticos y feministas sobre la autonomía corporal en el México de los 70″ , 73rd Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Panelist, Puebla, Mexico, April 2026.
- “Mujeres, ustedes deciden si se embarazan”: Reproductive Governance and Voluntary Motherhood in 1970s Mexico”, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians affiliate panels at the 2026 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 2026.
- “”Nos interesa a todas’: Voluntary Motherhood and Reproductive Rights Activism in Late-Twentieth Century Mexico”, 72nd Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Ottawa, Canada, April 2025.
- “Remnants of the Past: Colonialism and Reproduction in 20th-Century Mexico” LASA2024, Bogotá, Colombia, June 2024.
- “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.
