PhD Beatriz Elba Schmukler
Semblance
PhD in Sociology from Yale University. She is a member of
the National Researchers System. The research lines on which
she has worked are policies to prevent family violence in
Mexico, and policies of gender equity in international
cooperation. These lines have led her to form and lead a
research group on family democratization, as well as to
develop a training program on prevention of gender violence
in the families, being held virtually and on campus at the
José Maria Luis Mora Research Institute. The democratization
equipment of the Mora Institute won the 2009 contest of the
INMUJERES CONACYT fund to create a community commission in
the State of Mexico to prevent gender violence. In 2010, she
received the CONACYT support to form local development
agents for family democratization in the States of Mexico,
Morelos, and Oaxaca. In 2011, 2012 and 2013, the program
developed to allow for the Human Rights and Gender Equity
Commission of the Judicial Power to hire diplomats for a
period of six months so they could train 120 officials from
the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico and from the Council
of the Federal Judicature in order to promote in the law
concepts and practices of gender equity and human rights of
women, children, and men in the families.
She is author and coordinator of 13 books and many papers in
journals and collective books, national and foreign, about
subjects such as gender politics, family, private life, and
democracy. Some of these titles are Family democratization
in Mexico: experiences of a Project of Family Violence
Prevention, Handbook Series: “Building alternatives of
family cohabitation”, Social policies for democratizing
families: international experiences, Canada, Argentina, and
Mexico, coauthored with María del Rosario Campos Beltrán,
and Agents of local development for preventing gender
violence in western State of Mexico, Building key subjects
of international cooperation for development in Mexico,
International Cooperation for Development in Mexico: towards
a participation agenda, in collaboration with Citlali Ayala
and Gabriela Sánchez, and Building a space for cooperation:
Proofs in the link between the academy and OSC. She is
currently academic counselor in the Project of Gender
Violence with the approach of family democratization in the
autonomous city of Melilla, Granada University. She has been
supported by the UNDP, Kellogg Foundation, Tinker
Foundation, Ford Foundation, CONACYT, INMUJERES CONACYT
Fund, INDESOL, OAS, among other institutions. She is part of
the Assessment Commission of the INMUJERES CONACYT Fund, and
a founding member of the Professional Council for
Development Policies of the UNAM.
Academic Education
PhD in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University,
United States, 1985.
Master’s in Sociology, Yale University, United States, 1981.
Master’s in Urban and Regional Development, Torcuato Di
Tella Institute, Argentina, 1975.
Bachelor of the Arts in Sociology, Faculty of Social
Sciences, Buenos Aires University, Argentina, 1970.
Research Lines
Gender and family policies. Policies to prevent family
violence in Mexico.
Gender equity policies in international cooperation.
Elaboration, training, and following up in the family
democratization approach.
Joint construction of knowledge on international cooperation
among members of organizations of the civil society and
researchers of academic institutions.
Transversalization of gender equity in international
cooperation and in government’s social policies.
Research Projects
Family democratization as prevention of gender violence in
Melilla, Spain.
Two diploma courses in the council of the federal judicature
on family democratization for the administrative staff of
the federal judicature.
Contact
Phone number: 55-54-89-46 (or 25) ext. 3127
Email: bschmukler@mora.edu.mx