Interview Sandra Lorena Lopez Varela

Abstract

She holds a degree in Archaeology from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, a master's degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of London.

Her work led her to the presidency and vice-presidency of the Society for Archaeological Sciences. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Anthropological Association and Treasurer of the Mexican Society of Anthropology. She is currently a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, the Society for Archaeological Sciences and the American Anthropological Association.

She is interested in the preservation of cultural heritage after identifying the absence of an anthropological framework in the design of public policies, as she considers that anthropology helps to fight poverty in the most vulnerable communities, such as women.

She is a full time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM. Among her topics of study are preservation, cultural management, spatial statistics, cultural heritage and economic growth, which she addresses in more than 22 scientific articles.

Since 2015, he has been proposing México Alternativo, a program whose differentiator is to make citizens participate in the cultural heritage from the representation of socio-cultural values, and not only from an institutional vision, which would impact the economy in the long term.