Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Sandra Sánchez–López is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá - Colombia. She studies the history of print and media cultures in Latin America, with a particular focus on Twentieth-century Colombia. Her research has centered on the dynamics of power and resistance, considering the ways in which women have created class hierarchies while also struggling for their inclusion. In 2024, she published three significant pieces on this subject, including her book “Battles for Belonging: Women Journalists, Political Culture, and the Paradoxes of Inclusion in Colombia, 1943-1970,” which received the Michael Jimenez Honorable Mention from Lasa’s Colombia Section in May 2025. She is currently co-curating the 2026 main exhibition at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango –one of Colombia’s leading cultural institutions– which, under her leadership, will spotlight its collections of women’s archival materials. Central to her humanistic perspective is an engagement with archives as spaces of narrative and memory. She is currently developing a project titled “The Body Archive or How to Re-write History in Times of Peace and War,” which asks how movement and phenomenology might open new possibilities for archival analysis, inviting historians to reimagine the stories they tell and the methods they use. In March 2025, she curated and led “Cuerpos que hablan,” a week-long festival and program held in Bogotá on the body and storytelling. Finally, her interdisciplinary approach has also included an interest in digital methods for the creation and broader circulation of historical narratives. This is evident in “Mujeres de prensa: prácticas del periodismo femenino,” which reflects her commitment to broadening both the scope and the accessibility of historical scholarship. In 2025, she is serving as a member of the jury for the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award, the most important distinction for journalism in Colombia.