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Hispanic Studies Grad Published in National Geographic

Dr. Alice Driver, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma México and a recent graduate of UK's Hispanic Studies department, has added to her impressive list of accomplishments a photo credit in the November issue of National Geographic's Spanish Language edition.  The photo was taken at La Lagunilla Market in Mexico City and appears in the section "Your Shot"  of the issue "¿Cuba libre?" 

Dr. Driver will also exibit 5 of her photographs taken in Ciudad Juárez as part of the Photography Exhibit on Feminicide for the International Day for the Eliminatiion of Violence Against Women on November 26, 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The exhibit was organized by the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

Dr. Drive completed her PhD at the University of Kentucky in 2011.  Her dissertation was entitled “Cultural Production and Ephemeral Art: Feminicide and the Geography of Memory in Cuidad Juárez: 1998-2008.”  Her book More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico is forthcoming with the University of Arizona Press.