Mexican Academy of the Sciences’ Award to Best Doctoral Thesis in Social Sciences, 2003. Category “Cultural Studies”, with the thesis “Resistance Literature of Ainu Women”. See the website of El Colegio de México  or the website of the Mexican Academy of Sciences 

First Place in the National Contest of B. A. Thesis on Communication, 1990. The title of the thesis is Anthropological Theater as an Alternative of Communication, co-authored with Antonio Prieto Stambaugh.