Vivian Hernandez

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Vivian Hernandez

Graduate Student

Email: vvhernandez@ucla.edu

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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.

Field of Study

Latin America

Subfield

Gender Studies

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 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

  • “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.

Advisor(s)

Dr. Katherine Marino and Dr. Fernando Pérez-Montesinos

Degrees

  • B.A. History and Latin American Studies (2022), California State University, Chico