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Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Current Courses

Fall 2009 (current)


Spring 2010 (tentative)


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Current Graduate Students

Modern Latin America and Mexico


Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 2001

Office: HSSB 4234 Hours:
Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu

I am an historian of Latin America specializing in modern Mexico. I am currently finishing a project on campesino knowledge production and bioprospecting during the Luis Echeverria administration. I also have a new project underway on public health and social movements in Mexico City.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Modern Mexico and Latin America; intersection of science and culture; public health; nationalism; emerging citizenships

Current Projects

  • Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of Global Steroids
    Forthcoming from Duke University Press
  • Angry Doctors and a Sick State: Physicians Strikes and Public Health in Mexico

Selected Publications

  • "Let’s Become Fewer”: Soap Operas, The Pill and Population Campaigns, 1976-1986
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal. September 2007, vol. 4, no. 3., 19-33.
  • Fabriquer la connaisance et refabriquer la citoyenneté du “campesino,” dans le Mexique Rural
    in Des Sciences Citoyennes? La Question de l’amateur dans les sciences naturalistes. Florian Charvolin and André Micoud and Lynn Nyhart (eds.) France:L’Aube, 2007, 233-249.
  • Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants, and the Search for a Wild Yam
    Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants, and the Search for a Wild Yam,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Cambridge. Volume 36, Issue 4 , December 2005: 743-760
  • The Social Relations of Mexican Commodities: Power, Production, and Place
    Casey Walsh, Elizabeth Ferry, Gabriela Soto Lavega, Paola Sessia, and Sarah Hill, (contributors) La Jolla, Center for U.S. Mexican Press, 2003
  • Steroid Hormones and Social Relations in Oaxaca
    in The Social Relations of Mexican Commodities. La Jolla: Center for U.S. Mexican Press, 2003: 55-79
  • En busca de la Medicina Moderna en la Herbolaria Pre-Hispánica: El caso de México 1974 -1976 [In search of modern medicine in pre-hispanic medicine)
    Revista Horizontes, Universidade de San Francisco, São Paulo, Brazil. vol 21. Jan- Dec. 2003.

Select Fellowships

  • UC-Mexus Faculty Grant
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Fulbright- Garcia Robles
  • Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Grant
  • Junior Faculty Research Incentive Grant
  • Faculty Career Development Grant