JOINED THE DEPARTMENT
2017
BIO
Emily is a third-year master’s student interested in women and Latin America, specifically women and culture in early twentieth-century Mexico. Her current research correlates the daily activities of divas of the theater in Mexico City during the 1920s and 1930s to the idea of costumbrismo, a movement that “captured the customs, costumes, and traditions of everyday people and everyday life.” She uses this notion to demonstrate how Mexican society regarded these women as a threat to the nation’s vision of the “ideal” modern woman following the Revolution.