Join us for a conversation that will explore themes in Vanessa Freije s latest book,
Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico. Please note, this event will be available in English and Spanish through simultaneous translation. Co-organized with the CLACS at NYU. Free and open to the public. Register via Eventbrite.
About the Event:
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, and murders against media workers have only increased under the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This event brings together scholars and journalists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States to discuss how the historical development of Mexican media, and the use of scandal as a mode of politics, has shaped the challenges and promises for Mexican journalists reporting today. In addition to considering the dangerous conditions under which reporters work, participants will discuss questions of representation and access: which st
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 dissertati