![Helga Baitenmann No image provided](https://research.london.ac.uk/assets/experts/no-image-large.gif)
Contact details
- Name:
- Helga Baitenmann
- Position/Fellowship type:
- CLACS Associate Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 01-Jul-2021 to 30-Jun-2026
- Institute:
- Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies
- Location:
- Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
- Email address:
- helgabaitenmann@aol.com
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Gender studies, History, Law
- Regions:
- North America, South America
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
-
Helga Baitenmann is co-editor of Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico (2007), author of Matters of Justice: Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian Reform in Revolutionary Mexico (2020) and has written extensively on agrarian and justice matters for, among other journals, Historia Mexicana and the Journal of Latin American Studies. Her most recent book chapter ‘Los derechos de las mujeres indígenas en los procesos desamortizadores del Distrito de Morelia (1858-1909)’ in Tras las tierras comunales indígenas. Los libros de Hijuelas y el liberalismo decimonónico en Michoacán (Butler and Escobar, eds., 2023) is the first gendered analysis of nineteenth-century land disentailment in Mexico. Her current research project is on gender violence in Mexico from a historical perspective.