Victoria Basulto
Specializations
20th Century, Gender, Intellectual, Modern, Political, Religious
Geographies
Latin America, North America, Transregional
Biography
Victoria Basulto is a current fourth-year PhD candidate in the History department at the University of Notre Dame. Her research examines the cultural, social, and intellectual impact of the Cristero War and conservative Catholics in 20th-century Mexico. She examines how ideas of memory, masculinity, morality, and militancy were used differently across a broad range of Mexican Catholics. Her research themes include Global Catholic History, histories of the U.S. in the World, Cold War history, and histories of Modern Latin America and Modern Mexico.
At the University of Notre Dame, Victoria is a PhD Fellow at the Kellogg Institute, where she has served as graduate student coordinator for the Mexico Working Group. She is also a graduate student affiliate at the Institute for Latino Studies, and a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship.
Victoria received her Master of Philosophy in World History from the University of Cambridge in 2022 and her Bachelor of Arts in History and English from Colgate University in 2021.
Research Interests
Global Catholic History, U.S. in the World, Cold War, Modern Latin America, Modern Mexico