Sonia Montecino
Sonia Cristina Montecino Aguirre (born November 12, 1954) is a Chilean writer and anthropologist. In 2013, she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (National Prize of Social Science and Humanities.) Biography. She studied Anthropology in Universidad de Chile where she graduated in 1980 and in 2016 she received her doctorate in Leiden University in Holland. She is married to the anthropologist Rolf Foerster González. She has been an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, and holder of the UNESCO Chair with a headquarter in the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender  Studies of the aforementioned faculty, a center of which she was one of its founders and has been assistant director and director. Sonia Montecino has also been editor of the Revista Chilena de Antropología at Universidad de Chile, as well as having been coordinator of the Magíster in Género y Cultura en las facultades de Ciencias Sociales y de Filosofía y Humanidades  (Master in Gender and Culture at the faculties of Social Sciences and Philosophy and Humanities), and finally director of the Archivo Central Andrés Bello (August 2007.). She has participated in numerous and varied cultural initiatives, from working in  various committees to be a member of editorial boards of magazines (Rocinante, Hoja de Warmi, Mazorca.) In July 2010, she was appointed Vice-Rector for Extensión y Comunicaciones at Universidad de Chile. She has published essays, works of fiction, and numerous specialized articles. She has dedicated herself to the study of gender and ethnic identities, as well as to the relationships between anthropology and literature. Her work has received various awards.