Overview
Alex's dissertation focuses on queer health activism in modern Mexico from the 1970s-early 2000s. Broadly, Alex examines activist engagement with health discourse and medical professionals. Each chapter of his dissertation deals with a different health concern and decade--with AIDS looming large in his work on the 1980s and 1990s.
Alex is writing up his dissertation having conducted two years of research in Mexico. Alex served as a volunteer at Archivos y Memorias Diveras (AMD), an activist-run gay archive in Mexico City, for two years while completing his investigation. This experience forced an ethnography praxis onto a begrudging historian, resulting in a final dissertation chapter on AMD and their contemporary contributions to historical and memory preservation.
Alex's work has been generously supported by Fulbright García-Robles Dissertation Research Fellowship, Duke's Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Dissertation Support Fellowship, and the von der Heyden Global Fellowship. Alex has also received travel support from Duke's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department.
Alex is writing up his dissertation having conducted two years of research in Mexico. Alex served as a volunteer at Archivos y Memorias Diveras (AMD), an activist-run gay archive in Mexico City, for two years while completing his investigation. This experience forced an ethnography praxis onto a begrudging historian, resulting in a final dissertation chapter on AMD and their contemporary contributions to historical and memory preservation.
Alex's work has been generously supported by Fulbright García-Robles Dissertation Research Fellowship, Duke's Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Dissertation Support Fellowship, and the von der Heyden Global Fellowship. Alex has also received travel support from Duke's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Department.