Yael Bitrán Goren (

Santiago de Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital city, capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's Chilean Central Valley, central valley and is the center ...

, 1965) is a Chilean-born

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Mexican historian, translator, and

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

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 The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM). She has a Master's in Latin American History from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

in the United States and a Ph.D. in musicology from the

Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London (RH), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public university, public research university and a constituent college, member institution of the federal University of London. It ...

Career and research

She was the coordinator of the Mexican committee of the

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(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, ), located in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the Mexican institution in charge of coordinating artistic and cultural activities (both at the political and the educati ...

. 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, Chile 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