Liliana Toledo Guzman

2024 Graduate Student Peer Mentors Award

Liliana researches how the Mexican Revolution entailed institutional, familial, and gender role reassessments by investigating the biographies of two middle-class musicians, Esperanza Cruz and Celia Treviño Carranza. Her study elucidates how a paid activity, like music, made it possible for women to negotiate a certain degree of autonomy in a patriarchal context. 

A remarkably engaged peer mentoring group, the History Graduate Association (HGA) plays a critically important role in the success not just for our graduate students but for undergraduates and for other graduate students across campus. They are a model of a peer mentoring community. Both through its individual peer mentor program for new students and through its work as a peer mentor community, the HGA serves as a raft that buoys fellow students through the ebbs and flows of graduate school.