# Section III: Chapter 2  
Maria Elisa VELAZQUEZ Professor of history focuses on on Afrodescendants, heritage and cultural diversity in Mexico in the History and Ethnohistory Postgraduate program of the ENAH, with a line of research on the topic that has received from 2017 the distinction together with CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), as UNESCO Chair. In 2002 she received an Honorable Mention of the INAH award for her doctoral thesis on the topic of African and Afro-descendant women in Mexico City. President of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture UNESCO and has been Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of the International Project The Slave Route: resistance, freedom and heritage of UNESCO.