| Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru | |
| Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain[1] |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Alma Mater: | Central University of Madrid (nowadays Complutense) and National Autonomous University of Mexico[2] |
| Occupation: | Academic |
| Workplaces: | Center for Historical Studies of El Colegio de México (since 1980) |
| Awards: | National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the category of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy (Mexico, 2007). |
Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (born 1935 in Madrid, Spain and dead in 2024 in México) is a Spanish-Mexican academic who specializes in the cultural history of New Spain. In 2007 she received, along archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, the National Prize for Arts and Sciences of Mexico in the category of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy.
Gonzalbo is a member of the Advisory Council on Sciences of the Presidency of Mexico and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.[3] [4]
She received a degree in History of the Americas at the Complutense University of Madrid . She moved to Mexico City where she studied a master's degree in pedagogy, graduating with the thesis "Female education in New Spain: Colleges, convents and girls' schools" and a doctorate in History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[5]
Since 1980 she has been a professor and researcher at the Center for Historical Studies of El Colegio de México, of which she was academic coordinator from 1989 to 2001. Additionally, she has taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, at the Universidad Iberoamericana Desam (UIA) and at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH).[6]
She is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Association of Latin American Historians and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She is a researcher for the National System of Researchers, in which she was appointed emeritus researcher since 2006. She is a member of the Science Advisory Council of the Presidency of the Republic .[7]
She is considered the greatest specialist in the history of education in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the value of her research in this area is her great knowledge of the history of Iberian and New Spain pedagogical institutions and ideas, such as Humanism . It highlights its importance in the subject of the history of the family in the colonial period, as well as observing the role of women in the history of Mexico. She is the introducer in Mexico of the historiographic perspective, of French origin, which is known as the history of everyday life . Her research is supported by archive sources, such as: Archivo General de la Nación de México (AGN), Archivo del Arzobispado de México, General Archive of the Indies, Archive of the National Library of Mexico (BNM), archive of the Old City Hall of Mexico. In her various works, her archival work and how she interpreted the information can be observed, making with it several specialized books on the history of women, castes, their education and their role in daily life, as well as the education of the Jesuits .
Dr. Gonzalbo's interests focus on topics related to cultural history: family, women, education, daily life and feelings. Her nine books of personal authorship refer to them and more than twenty as editor or coordinator of collective works in which she has worked together with the group that has collaborated for more than two decades in the seminar on the history of everyday life.[8]
She is the author, editor and coordinator of a series of books and numerous articles and book chapters in which she addresses the subject of history, mainly in the colonial period. Her works include the series "History of daily life in Mexico" published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica and El Colegio de México in five volumes, with the collaboration of leading specialists on the subject.
In 2016 she ventured into massive open online courses (MOOC) with the course "History of daily life", produced by the Digital Education Program of El Colegio de México under the Mexico X platform .
This massive open online course had 6,421 people enrolled, of which 1,341 completed all the evaluations in a timely manner.
She has written more than 60 articles and book chapters, coordinated more than 16 books and has another eight of her own authorship, among them are: