Bio
Diana Ramirez is a PhD candidate in History at Florida International University. Her research focuses on the history of public health, motherhood, childhood, nursing, and nation-building in twentieth-century Colombia. Her dissertation examines how public health policies, maternal and child welfare programs, and medical discourses shaped ideas of citizenship, social order, and national development between the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Her broader interests include the history of medicine, gender history, oral history, memory studies, and Latin American history. She is particularly interested in how institutions, experts, and communities negotiated questions of health, care, reproduction, and social belonging. In addition to archival research, she is developing oral history projects that explore women’s experiences of motherhood, migration, family life, and intergenerational memory in Colombia and the United States.
