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Teresa Rojas Rabiela

Teresa Rojas Rabiela is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Teresa Rojas Rabiela rather than just read about it. In short: María Teresa Rojas Rabiela (born December 17, 1947) is an ethnologist, ethnohistorian, Emeritus National Researcher, 2024 National Prize for Arts and Sciences, Field III. History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy, Mexico, and Mexican academic, specializing in Chinampas of Mexico's Basin, history of agriculture, hydraulics, technology, and labor organization in Mesoamerica during pre-Columbian and colonial eras, as we…

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María Teresa Rojas Rabiela (born December 17, 1947) is an ethnologist, ethnohistorian, Emeritus National Researcher, 2024 National Prize for Arts and Sciences, Field III. History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy, Mexico, and Mexican academic, specializing in Chinampas of Mexico's Basin, history of agriculture, hydraulics, technology, and labor organization in Mesoamerica during pre-Columbian and colonial eras, as well as historical photography of Mexico's peasants and indigenous people. She is recognized as a pioneer in historical studies on earthquakes in Mexico. From 2018 to 2021, Rojas Rabiela was involved in the restoration of the section of the pre-Hispanic aqueduct of Tetzcotzinco, Texcoco, known as El caño quebrado (the broken pipe).

Education and academia Rabiela obtained her bachelor's degree in ethnology from Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, with her thesis Aspectos tecnológicos de las obras hidráulicas en el Valle de México (English: Technological Aspects of Hydraulic Works in the Valley of Mexico) under the direction of Ángel Palerm; before acquiring her master's degree at the same institution. She received her doctoral degree from Universidad Iberoamericana, with the thesis La agricultura mesoamericana en el siglo XVI (English: Mesoamerican Agriculture in the 16th century), directed by Pedro Carrasco. She studied under Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, Ángel Palerm Vich, Pedro Armillas, Pedro Carrasco and William T. Sanders. In 1973, she was appointed research professor at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (English: Higher Anthropology Research and Studies Center, CIESAS, for its acronym in Spanish), and its CEO from 1990 to 1996.

Career

Rojas Rabiela has held managerial, advisory, academic and representative positions at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico; Foro Consultivo Científico y Tecnológico (Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum) Mexico; Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexican Academy of Science); Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales (Ethnologists and Social Anthropologists Society) Mexico; Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of Researchers) Mexico; the UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (Institute of Anthropological Research-UNAM); the Archivo General de la Nación (Nation's General Archive) Mexico; Universidad Iberoamericana, El Colegio de México, El Colegio de San Luis and El Colegio de Michoacán. Rojas Rabiela is the Water's Historical Archive's founder (National Water Commission, Mexico) and has directed the Agrarian General Archive project development (CIESAS- Registro Nacional Agrario, Mexico). She has been editor of Historia de los Pueblos Indígenas de México (Mexico's Indigenous Peoples History) collection (twenty four volumes) with Mario Humberto Ruz Sosa, CIESAS – Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, Mexico; of Colección Agraria ( Agrarian Collection, seventeen volumes) CIESAS-Registro Nacional Agrario, Mexico; of Serie Biografías of Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales; and the "Iconografía de la Luz" (Iconography of Light) photolibrary Nacho López electronic catalog, with Ignacio Gutiérrez Ruvalcaba, CIESAS-CDI in fifty five volumes. Since 1987 she has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. In 2025 Rojas Rabiela was awarded the 2024 National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy category.

Awards Francisco Javier Clavijero Award, for best doctoral thesis in history and ethnohistory, INAH, Mexico, 1985. Scientific Research Award , Social Sciences category, Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico, 1987. Arnaldo Orfila Reynal Award in university publishing, Social Sciences category, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 1995. Manuel Rodríguez Lapuente Medal in Social Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2003. Academic Medal, Mexican Society for the History of Science and Technology, Mexico, 2004. INNOVA Recognition, Nacho López Photo Archive, National Institute of Indigenous Peoples, Mexico, 2005. Diploma for studies on the chinampas and their culture, Government of Mexico City, 2016. Recognition from the Institute of Historical Research of the Michoacana University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, for contributions to the development of academic programs of significant institutional value, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico, 2017. Recognition for influence on several generations of researchers in ethnobiology and environmental history, Mexican Society of Ethnology, 2018. Mention of Merit for work in the safeguarding and organization of archives, XVIII Citibanamex “Atanasio G. Saravia” Award for Mexican Regional History 2018–2019. Distinction as National Emeritus Researcher, awarded by the General Council of the National System of Researchers, Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías, Mexico, 2022. National Prize for Arts and Sciences in the History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy category, Mexico, 2024.

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Teresa Rojas Rabiela

In research: Teresa Rojas Rabiela appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Teresa Rojas Rabiela in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Teresa Rojas Rabiela is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1947 births, 20th-century Mexican anthropologists, 20th-century Mexican scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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