Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Selected by the World Bank Institute as one of the Top 30 Worldwide Social Innovators, Cape Town, 2010.
• Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Latin America and the Caribbean 2008.
• Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Urban and Regional Development (IURD), University of California at Berkeley 2007-2010.
• Alexander Onassis Fellow at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2007.
• Alfonso Reyes Chair in Mexican Studies at the Institute of High Studies for Latin America, University of Paris Sorbonne III, 2005.
• Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SPURS/DUSP, 2003/2004, Fulbright and OAS / Leo Rowe Pan-American Fund Fellowships.
• Postdoctoral Fellow at the French Institute of Urbanism (IFU), University of Paris VIII, 2002-03. National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) Fellowship.
• Ph.D. Magna Cum Laude, held National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT ) Fellowship, 1998-2000.
• Masters fellowship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Government Fellowship, 1991–1994, Italy.
• Alfonso Caso Silver Medal Award for outstanding achievements, UNAM, 2004.
• National Researcher by the National Research System of Mexico (SNI) since 2000.
• National Endowment for Arts and Culture Fellowship in Cultural Studies; 2006–2007
• National Endowment for Arts and Culture Fellowship in Urban Design; 1999–2000
• Exchange Fellow by the American Field Service Fellowship; 1982–1983, United Kingdom.