She was born and raised in Mexico City. Between 2002 and 2008 she lived and studied in the United Kingdom, obtaining graduate degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester. From 2008 to 2010 Dr. Aguilar was a postdoctoral fellow at Lehigh University. Her work has been published in various journals, both in the United States and Latin America. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Cooking Modernity: Food, Gender, and Class in 1940s and 1950s Mexico.”