Editorial Team

Dra. Silvia Hamui Sutton
Project editor 

Dr. Diego Martínez Serrano
Paleography coordinator

Dr. Eliezer Cuesta Gómez
Design and text formatting

José Carlos Guerrero García
Diffusion
Legal management

Paleographic transcription:

  • Roberto Salazar García (vol. 1, 2, 9, 12, 13)
  • Itzel Coctecón (vol. 3)
  • Herlinda Ruiz Martínez (vol. 4)
  • Juan Antonio Núñez Campos (vol. 6)
  • Diego Martínez Serrano (vol. 7)
  • Belén Salas Chimal (vol. 8)
  • Angélica Herrera (vol. 10)
  • Delia Cabrera Murûa (vol. 11)

 

Dra. Silvia Hamui Sutton

Born in Mexico City. She completed her undergraduate studies (1992–1997) at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), graduating with the highest GPA of her class and receiving Honors. She earned her Master’s degree in Literature with a specialization in Comparative Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), where she also obtained her Ph.D. in Literature in 2006, graduating with Honors.

She has taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana since 1997 and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 2007. She also serves as a graduate advisor in the Master’s Program in Teaching for Upper Secondary Education (MADEMS) at UNAM.

Dr. Hamui Sutton has participated in conferences and colloquia in Mexico and abroad and has published articles in both national and international journals. Among her published books are Literary Interpretations as an Opening toward the Universe of the “Other” (2009, Universidad Iberoamericana; 2nd edition, 2021); The Hidden Meaning of Words in the Inquisitorial Testimonies of the Rivera Family: Judaizers in New Spain (2010, UNAM); Dissected Readings: Orality and Writing in Mexican Narrative (2018, Universidad Iberoamericana); and The Judaizer Rafael Gil Rodríguez and the Decline of the Inquisition: New Spain, Eighteenth Century (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2021).

She is President of the Academic Committee of the Centro de Documentación e Investigación Judío de México (Center for Jewish Documentation and Research of Mexico, CDIJUM). In 2009, she received the Rabbi Jacobo Goldberg Award for her article “Identifiers of Judaizers and the Re-signification of Their Rituals in the Context of New Spain.” She was awarded the 2019 University Merit Recognition for Outstanding Professional Career at the Universidad Iberoamericana and received the Ernesto Meneses Morales Medal in 2020.

From June 8, 2021, to 2025, she served as Representative of Professional Teaching Staff on the Academic Committee of the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers since 2015 and is currently recognized as Level II researcher by the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI).

In 2022, she received the Award for Best Adjunct Professor in Hispanic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Higher Studies Acatlán of UNAM. She is also part of the research project Financial Capitals, Commercial Enterprises, and Economic Agents at the University of Alcalá, sponsored by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain and co-funded by the European Union.

She currently directs the research project Letters between Words: Documentary Recovery from the National Archives on Judaizers in New Spain (16th–18th Centuries) at the CDIJUM.

 

Dr. Diego Martínez Serrano

Dr. Diego Martínez Serrano earned his degree in Ethnohistory, and his master’s and doctoral degrees in Archaeological Studies from the National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, ENAH), Mexico. His research focuses on crypto-Jews in New Spain and other regions of Mexico. He has been a member of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association since 2019.

He serves as advisor to the archaeological-historical project The Mikveh of Taxco and to the project The Mikvehs of Parras in collaboration with the Centro Carvajal Sefarad. He is also coordinator of the project New Spanish Historical Archaeology, developed jointly by the ENAH Graduate Program in Archaeology and the Centro de Documentación e Investigación Judío de México (CDIJUM), which focuses on the documentary recovery of Judaizers in New Spain. Graduate Program in Archaeology
National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), Mexico.