LORENA CARDONA GONZÁLEZ (UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA, ARGENTINA)

Lorena Cardona González is a sociologist and lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina in the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Sciences. She is a member of the Center for Sociohistorical Research of the UNLP, as well as a researcher participant in the project "Recent History and the public uses of the past: militancy, ethnicity and memory policies from / in Latin America” and at the Program in Jewish Studies (NEJ). Her areas of interest are the study of the Holocaust and its representations and the history of the German community in Colombia in the context of the Second World War.

DANIELA GLEIZER SALZMAN (UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO, MÉXICO)

Daniela Gleizer is an associate researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) focusing on the relationship between the Mexican state and foreigners, particularly on immigration and naturalization policies.  She has also worked on the relationship between Mexico and the Third Reich, and the role of the consuls in granting visas during the Second World War. Gleizer is currently working on two projects: one on the limits of citizenship policy in Mexico and the other on the witness accounts of Holocaust survivors who arrived in Mexico. 

SANDRA GRUNER-DOMIC

Since the Research Week team’s last visit, Sandra Gruner-Domic has joined the team to expand the geographic scope of the project and contribute her expertise on Bolivia. A social anthropologist, she worked as consultant for the Guatemalan genocide collection at the USC Shoah Foundation. She is an experienced lecturer in sociology and gender studies at California State Long Beach University and USC. Her research interests are migration and gender, violence, displacement and genocide. Additionally she has researched, taught and published works on migration, race and ethnic relations, process of representation and identity in transnational context, and global citizenship.

EMMANUEL KAHAN (UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA, ARGENTINA)

Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan (Master and PhD in History & Memory Studies for the National University of La Plata), is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET). He is a professor in the field of Political Theory at the Sociology Department of the National University of La Plata, and he teaches several postgraduate courses in different high education institutions. He is also the academic coordinator of the Program for Teachers Formation on "The Holocaust and other 20th Century's Genocides" within the National Plan for Teachers Formation "Our School".

NANCY NICHOLLS LOPEANDÍA (PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, CHILE)

Nancy Nicholls Lopeandía is a lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile on themes of memory, oral history and contemporary Chilean history. She has written about the experiences of repression among victims of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) based on survivor testimonies. In recent years, her principal research topic has been survival, migration and adaptation among Holocaust survivors migrating to Chile. She is currently working with Yael Siman and Lorena Ávila on research into experiences of mobility, migration and integration of Holocaust survivors that migrated to Colombia, Chile and Mexico.  

YAEL SIMAN (UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA, MÉXICO)

Yael Siman, PhD, is Professor of History and International Relations at Iberoamericana University and Head of A.G. Leventis Chair on Cyprus Studies at Anáhuac University, Mexico City. Her research interests concern the connections between the Holocaust and Latin America, antisemitism and discourses of hatred in Latin America, and the experiences and narratives of victims of genocide and mass violence. She is currently working on the mobility, migration and integration experiences and narratives of Holocaust survivors who came to Mexico in the 1930s-1950s.