Nidia Olvera Hernández, PhD
Nidia A. Olvera Hernández is a Mexican historian and anthropologist. She has a PhD in modern and contemporary history from the Mora Institute in Mexico City. Nidia earned a bachelor’s degree in ethnohistory from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and a master’s in social anthropology from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. Her primary research interests lie in the historical and contemporary dimensions of psychoactive substance use and drug policy. She collaborates as a research associate at Chacruna Latinoamérica in México and contributes to the Journal of Social History of Alcohol and Drugs as associate review editor and is a research fellow at the Consortium for the History of Science. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher on the project “Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion? Shifting Perspectives on Drugs in Latin America” at Radboud University, Netherlands.
