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Distinguished Professor. Recognition approved at Academic Council Session No. 420, held on June 27 and 30, and July 12, 2017.

Dr. Elionor Bartra y Muriá was born in Mexico City in September 1947. She held a PhD in Philosophy and served as Distinguished Professor and Full-Time Professor C at the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Xochimilco Campus. She co-founded and coordinated the research area Woman, Identity, and Power, as well as the graduate programs Master’s in Women’s Studies and PhD in Feminist Studies at the same university.

She published under the name Eli Bartra. Her books include Feminism and Folk Art. Case Studies in Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, and Brazil (Lexington Books, 2019); Desnudo y arte (Desde Abajo, 2018; UAM Xochimilco Campus, 2nd ed., 2021); Mujer, ideología y arte (La Sal, 1987; Icaria, 1994, 2004); En busca de las diablas. Sobre arte popular y género (Tava/UAM Xochimilco Campus, 1994); Mujeres en el arte popular. De promesas, traiciones, monstruos y celebridades (UAM, 2005) and its English version Women in Mexican Folk Art (University of Wales Press, 2011); Mosaico de creatividades. Experiencias de arte popular (UAM, 2013); and Nudes and Naked Women in the Arts: Mexico and Beyond (Lexington Books, 2022).

She co-edited and co-authored several collective works, including Crafting Gender. Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2003); Creatividad invisible. Mujeres y arte popular en América Latina y el Caribe (PUEG/UNAM, 2004); Mujeres, feminismo y arte popular (UAM/Unisinos/La Cifra, 2015); Interculturalidad estética y prácticas artesanales. Mujeres, feminismo y arte popular (UAM Xochimilco Campus, 2019); Debates en torno a una metodología feminista (UAM Xochimilco Campus, 1999); Feminismo en México, ayer y hoy (UAM, 2000); and La Revuelta. Reflexiones, testimonios y reportajes de mujeres en México, 1975–1983 (Martín Casillas, 1983).

She published more than one hundred articles and book chapters on feminism, gender studies, folk art, feminist methodology, and feminist movements. Her contributions included academic texts and curatorial work such as Autodesnudas (Museum of Mexican Women Artists, 2014), as well as specialized articles in international journals and collective volumes.

She belonged to the National System of Researchers, Level III. She received a Fulbright research grant (2000–2001) to carry out a research stay at Duke University in the United States. She also served as visiting professor at universities in Latin America, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.