Eulalia Guzmán Barrón

Place: San Pedro Piedra Gorda

Born: 1890

Death: 1985

Biography:

Eulalia Guzmán Barrón was born on 12th February 1890 in San Pedro Piedra Gorda, Mexico but moved to Mexico City with her family when she was 8 years old. She was a pioneering feminist and educator and nationalist thinker in post-revolutionary Mexico. She was one of the first women to work in archaeology in Mexico and was the first woman to direct the National Museum of Archaeology and History in Mexico. She was also a teacher and a researcher in the field of education. She was born into a family of intellectuals and was the sister of Juan Bosch, a Dominican politician, historian, writer, essayist, educator, and the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic. She died in 1985.