Vanessa Freije

Contact
- vfreije@uw.edu
- Thomson Hall Room 324
- @vanessa_freije
About
Vanessa Freije is an Assistant Professor of International Studies. In 2015-2016, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the inaugural class of the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows. Her research and teaching focus on the history of Mexico, the history of intra-American relations, the politics of knowledge production, and the role of journalists in development. Her book, Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico, was published in October 2020 with Duke University Press. The book examines how media scandals shaped social imaginaries and forged new modes of political engagement from the 1960s through the 1980s. This book project builds upon her dissertation, which was awarded the Latin American Studies Association Mexico Dissertation Award for the best dissertation on Mexico in the social sciences and humanities and the Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize, awarded by the American Journalism Historians Association for the best dissertation dealing with mass communication history. Freije’s research has been supported by the Fulbright-García Robles and the U.S.-Mexican Studies Center at the University of California San Diego, among others.
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Education
- Duke University, Ph.D., History, 2015
Selected Courses
Selected Publications
Citizens of Scandal -Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Publication Date:
2020
The ’emancipation of media’ - Latin American advocacy for a New International Information Order in the 1970s
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Journal of Global History Vol. 14
Publication Date:
2019
Speaking of Sterilization -Rumors, the Urban Poor, and the Public Sphere in Greater Mexico City
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Hispanic American Historical Review
Publication Date:
2019
Censorship in the Headlines -National News and the Contradictions of Mexico City's Press Opening in the 1970s
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Journalism, Satire, and Censorship in Mexico
Publication Date:
2019
The Public Sphere in Mexico since the Mid-20th Century
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
Publication Date:
2018
Exposing Scandals, Guarding Secrets: -Manuel Buendía, Columnismo, and the Unraveling of One-Party Rule in Mexico, 1965-1984
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
The Americas, Volume 72, Issue 3
Publication Date:
2015