Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow Awarded Mexico’s National Prize of Arts and Sciences
Elizabeth Rankin
November 17, 2010
Soledad Loaeza, researcher and professor of political science at El Colegio de México’s Center for International Studies and a former Kellogg Institute visiting fellow, has won Mexico’s prestigious National Prize of Arts and Sciences.
The award, given annually by the Mexican government, honors citizens for outstanding achievement in literature, fine arts, history, social science, natural science and technology. Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced the 2010 winners on Tuesday, with Loeza garnering the prize for social science.
“I feel very honored,” Loaeza told the Mexican press. “This award makes me feel even more engaged by my work.”
Widely published in political science, history and international relations, Loaeza focuses her research on democratization in Mexico, the National Action Party, and the transformation of Mexican society in the twentieth century. She spent the spring of 2005 in residence at the Kellogg Institute studying the Mexican presidency.
