Voices of Mexico no. 110
Our Voice
In August 2019, we began a series of activities to make the importance of the cisan’s production of knowledge in North American studies even more visible than it already was.
Originally created as the Center for Research on the United States of America in the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, it was an innovative step in the university. It recognized the fundamental importance for Mexico of having a deep understanding of U.S. society, economy, and ways of doing politics domestically and abroad. This was clearly even more important in the context of the signing of nafta, when the center established our country’s first Canadian studies area.
This special issue of Voices of Mexico is one of those commemorative activities. Since the magazine was created in the cisan to disseminate our country’s thinking and culture through —as its name implies— our voices, in many cases university voices, in order to eradicate simplistic stereotypes, we thought that it was vital that our voices from the cisan express our opinions about the development of the region over the last three decades.
Editorial
Our Voice
Thirty Years
Graciela Martínez-Zalce
Our Beginnings
Remembering the Creation of
The CISEUA-CISAN
Mónica Verea
Political Institutions and Ideas
Topics and Challenges in 30 Years
Of North American Studies
A Three-way Conversation
Juan Carlos Barrón Pastor
Oliver Santín Peña
Roberto Zepeda Martínez
Thirty Years at the CISAN:
An Academic and Personal Journey
Paz Consuelo Márquez-Padilla
My Research at CISAN-UNAM
José Luis Valdés-Ugalde
Chronicles of a Universe with Multiple
Rules and Moving Pieces
U.S. Domestic Politics
Estefanía Cruz Lera
The Economy, Integration,
And Development
Following the Trail of U.S. Energy Strategy
An Academic Biography
Rosío Vargas
Climate Change, Treaties, Science and
Technology, . . . and Consciousness
Edit Antal
The USMCA and Exchange Policy:
Implications for Mexico
Claudia Maya
Migration and Borders
A Look at Research into the U.S.
Immigration Debate and Policy
Mónica Verea
From Brain Circulation to Talent
Restrictions: A Personal Insight into
Skilled Migration Studies
Camelia Tigau
A Mexican Epistemology for Studying
Migration in North Americas
Ariadna Estévez
Security and Governability
20 Years of Security in North America
Raúl Benítez Manaut
Leonardo Curzio Gutiérrez
Actors, Structures, and Social Processes
Discovering the Wealth of U.S. Society
Silvia Núñez García
Young cisan Researchers,
Cyberculture, and Digital Education
Paola Virginia Suárez Ávila
Identities and Cultural Processes
Research about Two Moments in U.S. History
Ignacio Díaz de la Serna
Nattie Golubov
CISAN Research on North American
Cultural and Creative Industries
Alejandro Mercado Celis
The CISAN, a Ray of Hope in Today’s World
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo
Opening Doors to Knowledge
Disseminating Knowledge
About North America
From Flyers to Instagram
Brenda Lameda-Díaz Osnaya
Publishing about Our Region
Is Understanding Who We Are
Astrid Velasco Montante
On Memory, Visibility, Impact,
And Preservation
Norma Aída Manzanera Silva
Thirty Years’ Worth of Knowledge
Socorro García González
The Library, a Place of Ghosts
Joel Estudillo García
Francisco M. Ureña
Views from Abroad
Interdisciplinary Cultural
Research with the CISAN
Will Straw
Academic Collaboration and Outreach
To the Public and Policy Makers
Manuel Chávez
Advancing Mutual Knowledge
Of the Complex U.S.-Mexico Agenda
Luis E. Coronado Guel
Art and Culture
Migrants of Clay
Eduardo Vázquez Martín
Gretta Penélope Hernández
“Terra Incognita-Migrants’ Shoes”
The Path of a Dream
Teresa Jiménez
Lourdes Almeida
New Perspectives for Mexican,
U.S., and Canadian Cultural Diplomacy
Patricia Fernández Robinson