I am a tenured research professor in the Department of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of Sonora, Mexico, where I have worked since 2018, and a National Researcher in Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNII, SECIHTI). My research examines the current global wave of autocratization through the Mexican case, with growing attention to civil-military relations.
The political regime has been my persistent unit of analysis. I have approached it through political economy, democracy studies, and public policy analysis. My work has appeared in journals such as Democratization, Latin American Perspectives, Politics, Foro Internacional, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and Spanish Journal of Sociology.
I hold a PhD in Politics from the University of Sheffield (2016) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, 2016–2018). I also hold an MA in Social Sciences from FLACSO-México and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).
I learned the rudiments of political analysis in practice, as a left-wing activist for many years, until understanding reality mattered more to me than defending an ideology. My curiosity about twentieth-century revolutions and their repercussions in Latin America continues to shape my research questions. Alongside disciplinary articles, I write essays, and with my students I complement contemporary political science with the classics of political thought.
Politics, guided by knowledge, is the art of collective liberation.
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