Ariadna Tenorio

Ariadna Tenorio is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Originally from Puebla, Mexico, she combines her background in law and human rights with interdisciplinary academic training, holding two PhDs: one in Social Sciences from the University of Colima and another in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of Kansas.

• Education: PhD in Social Sciences (University of Colima), PhD in Spanish and Portuguese (University of Kansas)

Her research focuses on archival methodologies and documentary practices in colonial Mexico, exploring how institutional records and literary texts reveal dynamics of social mobility, identity formation, and power structures. She analyzes 18th-century New Spain through parish records and colonial archives, connecting historical foundations to modern concepts of belonging and national identity.

Geographically, her work centers on Mexico and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches bridging historical inquiry and literary analysis. She contributes to understanding citizenship and nation-building processes through textual representations of colonial and postcolonial societies.