Rossana Reguillo

Rossana Reguillo is a widely cited scholar in Latin America.[5] She has extensively researched such issues as youth, the city as social space, “fear” as a social construct, and the inter-relationships between communication, culture and politics.[10] Reguillo has analyzed such topics arising from the fields of Communication, Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, authoring 142 articles, 71 book chapters and seven books, and has also edited/coordinated seven books. Her ample experience in research and teaching has positioned her as a significant academic reference in Latin American scholarship, for which she has been offered diverse visiting positions and visiting chairs in different universities:

• Professor in the Studies of Social Communication Department of the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico (1995-2001).
• Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Río Piedras campus (School of Public Communication), Río Piedras, Puerto Rico (1997, 2000).
• Tinker Visiting Professor[11] at the Stanford University, Centre of Latin American Studies, Stanford, California (2001).
• UNESCO Chair in Communication[12] at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2004).
• UNESCO Chair in Communication[13] at the Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogota, Colombia (2004).

Reguillo has also been a Professor in the Sociocultural Studies Department[14] at ITESO University,[1] (Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education,[2] by its initials in Spanish) since 1981, and since 2001 has been Coordinator of its Formal Research Program in Sociocultural Studies (PFIESO). She has also been a permanent member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2002,[15] and she has achieved the highest possible level (level III)[16] in the National Researchers System of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico. She has also been awarded the 1995 Best Research in Social Anthropology Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Award by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (Mexico), the 1996 Ibero-American Award for Municipal and Regional Investigation by the Ibero-American Capital Cities Union, Spain, and the 2010 Advertising and Women Award for Communication Trajectory by the Municipal Institute of Women and the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination. [17] She has also been appointed as Advisory Member for Latin America for the Social Science Research Council (2002, USA).[18] In addition, she has been appointed as peer evaluator for the National Council of Science and Technology projects (2000-2004, 2006-2009), judge of the Alejandrina Gaitán de Mondragón Award for the social sciences and humanities areas (2002, 2008, 2009), and member of the international jury for the Essay Contest of the Central University of Venezuela.

Reguillo has participated as a member of editorial committees in diverse journals: Comunicación y Sociedad (Mexico), Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas (Mexico), Forum (Colombia), Nómadas (Spain), Lugar Comum (Brasil), and Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Colombia). She has also served as peer reviewer for varied publishing houses: University of Guadalajara (Mexico), Centre of Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology (Mexico), Latin American Social Sciences Institute (Argentina), The College of the Northern Border (Mexico), Central University of Colombia (Colombia), Revista Mexicana de Sociología (Mexico), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and National University of General Sarmiento (Argentina). Reguillo has also extensively participated in the popular dissemination of academic results through her collaborations in a variety of newspapers such as Siglo 21 (1992-1997), Público-Milenio (1997-2001), La Jornada Semanal, El Ángel (Reforma), Revista Ñ (Clarín, Argentina), La Nación (Argentina), and she has also been a guest speaker on numerous radio programs.

Rossana Reguillo has participated in more than 230 conferences in Brasil, Mexico, Spain, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Turkey, the USA and Canada, and has also taught courses and seminars in different universities in Anglo and Latin America, as well as in Spain: University of Colima (Colima, Mexico), Autonomous University of Queretaro (Queretaro, Mexico), Pontifical Bolivarian University (Medellin, Colombia), University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico), Central American University (El Salvador), University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina), ORT University of Montevideo (Montevideo, Uruguay), National University of Colombia (Medellin, Colombia), Simón Bolívar Andean University (La Paz, Bolivia), Autonomous University of Yucatán (Yucatán, Mexico), Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico, Mexico), Michoacana University of San Nicolas de Hidalgo (Morelia, Mexico), National University of La Plata (La Crujia, Argentina), Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Stanford University (Palo Alto, USA), University of Lleida (Lleida, Spain), New York University (New York, USA), Sacred Heart University (San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico), Casa de las Americas (La Habana, Cuba), Autonomous University of Baja California (Mexicali, Mexico), Latin American Social Sciences Institute (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico, Mexico), National University of Cordoba (Córdoba, Argentina), Bolivian Catholic University (Cochabamba, Bolivia), National University of General San Martin (Buenos Aires, Argentina), University of Manizales (Manizales, Colombia) and Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico).

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