
Nidia Olvera
México
Nidia has a degree in Ethnohistory from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and a Master in Social Anthropology from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). She has focused her research on the historical and anthropological study of the uses, conceptions and prohibitions of psychoactive substances. She is a teacher at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) and at the ENAH. Currently, Nidia is pursuing a Doctorate in Modern and Contemporary History at the Mora Institute, where she conducts a study in relation to drug control during the 1940s in Mexico City.