Yael Bitrán Goren (

Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, 1965) is a Chilean-born naturalized Mexican historian, translator, and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

Education

She studied piano at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (CNM). She has a degree in history from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a Master's in Latin American History from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

in the United States and a Ph.D. in musicology from the Royal Holloway, University of London.

Career and research

She was the coordinator of the Mexican committee of the

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (International Repertory of Music Literature; Internationales Repertorium der Musikliteratur), commonly known by its acronym RILM, is a nonprofit organization that offers digital collections and a ...

(RILM). She is part of the editorial board of the Mexican musicology magazine ''Heterofonía''. Since 2014, she is the director of the (CENIDIM) of the

Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL, en, National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature), located in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the Mexican institution in charge of coordinating artistic and cultural ...

. In addition to being a researcher at the same national center since 2000, Bitrán is a postgraduate music professor at the UNAM. She belongs to the National System of Researchers, Level I. Her research deals with gender, cultural studies; the social history of music, women, identity, reception and circulation of music; traveling musicians of the 19th century in Mexico; and the music press of the 19th century. She was a researcher of musical content in radio stations Opus 94 and Radio Educación.

Awards and honours

* Award for Academic Performance in Research, second place, awarded by the National Institute of Fine Arts, 2013. * Raúl Guerrero Award from the National Institute of Anthropology and History for Research and Dissemination of Musical Heritage in the category of "Award for the best product for the dissemination of musical heritage", 2011. * Marcos and Celia Maus Award from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. Honorable mention for the best Bachelor's thesis in the class of 1991–1992, 1994. * Francisco Javier Clavijero Award from INAH. Honorific mention. Award for the best undergraduate thesis in history at a national level, 1994.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bitran, Yael 1965 births Living people People from Santiago National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London 21st-century Mexican historians Mexican translators Mexican musicologists Mexican pianists Mexican women historians