She is a researcher in its Area of Globality Studies. She received her master’s in economics from the Colegio de México’s Center for Economic Studies.

She is a professor in the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences, where she teaches a course on Mexican relations with the United States and Canada in the undergraduate international relations program.

Outstanding among her publications are the following articles: “Toronto, neoliberalismo y competitividad en la reestructuración productiva de los servicios” (Toronto, Neoliberalism and Competitiveness in the Productive Restructuring of Services), in Olivera Martínez Patricia Eugenia, ed., Polarización Social en la Ciudad Contemporánea. El reescalamiento de los espacios del neoliberalismo (Mexico City: FFy L-UNAM, 2013); “La experiencia canadiense de la concentración espacial de los servicios al productor” (The Canadian Experience in Spatial Concentration of Services for Producers), Norteamérica. Revista académica 6, no. 1 (June 2011); “Barack Obama: entre la crisis económica y la crisis electoral” (Barack Obama: Between Economic Crisis and Electoral Crisis), in the on-line journal Escenarios XXI no. 9 (May 2011); “Los cien días de Obama, entre la crisis económica y la agenda latinoamericana” (Obama’s Hundred Days, between Economic Crisis and the Latin American Agenda), Cuadernos Americanos 4, no. 130 (CIALC-UNAM, October-November 2009); “Dinámicas y procesos de integración en los servicios al productor: tendencias en las principales ciudades de América del Norte” (Integration Dynamics and Processes in Services for Producers: Trends in the Main North American Cities), in Alejandro Mercado, M. Alfie, and G. Martínez-Zalce, eds., Procesos regionales en América del Norte (Regional Processes in North America) (Mexico City: Eón/AMEC/UAM-Azcapotzalco, 2007).

With Alejandro Mercado, she co-edited the book Fronteras en América del Norte. Estudios multidisciplinarios (Frontiers in North America: Multi-Disciplinary Studies) (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM, 2004).

In addition to her writings in academic journals, she has contributed the following articles to publications for wider distribution: “The Insertion of Migrants in the U.S. Labor Market. Some Traits of Undocumented Mexican Migration”, Voices of Mexico, no. 100, cisan-unam (en prensa); “The Economy, an Ongoing Concern for the Obama Administration, Voices of Mexico, no. 96 (Spring-Summer, 2013), cisan-unam; “Economic Crisis and Regional and Sectoral Impacts,” Voices of Mexico no. 85 (May-August 2009); “The Balance Sheet of the Bush Administration’s Multilateral Trade Negotiations,” Voices of Mexico no. 83 (September-December 2008), CISAN-UNAM.

Claudia Maya received her doctorate in economics from the UNAM, her masters in economics from the University of Missouri Kansas City, and another masters in finance from the UNAM School of Accounting and Business Administration. She has published articles and book chapters in Mexico and abroad, in addition to participating in different national and international colloquia and seminars. She is currently a researcher at CISAN and professor of the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences. Her field of research is the study of international economics, in particular the changes in the North American financial system.

Professor Márquez-Padilla received her doctorate in political science with a specialization in international relations from the UNAM, and her master’s in sociology from Tulane University and in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a member of the Globality Studies Area. She works on issues related to federalism, democracy, neo-conservatism, and international justice.

She is a professor and thesis advisor at the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences. She is a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers.

She is author of Justicia Internacional. Ideas y reflexiones (International Justice: Ideas and Reflexions) (México: CISAN, 2014) and with Leon Bieber co-authored Regionalismo y federalismo (Regionalism and Federalism) (Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2004); and , together with Julián Castro Rea, she compiled El nuevo federalismo en América del Norte (The New Federalism in North America) (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM, 2000); outstanding among her articles is “Viejas y nuevas discusiones en torno al federalismo” (Old and New Discussions on Federalism) in Desde el sur. Visiones de Estados Unidos y Canadá desde América Latina a principios del siglo XXI (From the South. Visions of the United States and Canada from Latin America at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century), a publication she coordinated. She has also published Globalización y democracia. El contexto internacional (Globalization and democracy. The International Context) as part of the series “Cuadernos de América del Norte,” no. 15 (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM, 2009); and "Conflicto y cooperación en las relaciones internacionales" (Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations) in Norteamérica. Revista Académica,CISAN-UNAM, year 6, no. 2 (July-December 2011).

She was director of the CISAN from August 1997 to August 2001, and of the magazine Voices of Mexico from August 1995 to August 2001.

She was awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2007, and in 2014, the APAUNAM Award for Merit.
A work of hers on modern democracy in the lexicon of cooperation will soon be published by the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences.

She is currently the editor-in-chief of Norteamérica, Revista Académica.

Dr. Martínez-Zalce received her bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Hispanic literature from the UNAM FES Acatlán and her master’s and doctorate in modern letters from the Iberoamerican University. She is a PRIDE scholar (D-level) and a level II member of the SNI and of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She is a specialist in the area of Canadian cultural studies and in the Migration and Borders and Identities and Cultural Processes areas of investigation. She has been a visiting researcher at El Colegio de México, at Canada’s McGill University, and at the Cuajimalpa campus of Mexico City’s Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM).

She is a professor at the School of Philosophy and Letters’ College of Hispanic Letters, where she teaches the Seminars on Literary Research I and II (Theory of Adaptation; Cinema and Literature), as well as at the School of Political and Social Sciences Graduate Department, where she teaches the Seminar on Cinema, Migration, and Borders in North America.

Position:

Full-time, tenured, C-level researcher assigned to the Area of Globality Studies and current director of the CISAN, UNAM

Full Researcher and coordinator of the Globality Studies Area at CISAN-UNAM. PhD. in Urban Planning (specialization in regional and international development) from the University of California Los Angeles. He is currently SNI II and Ambassador in Mexico of the Regional Studies Association. He coordinates the research seminars series on Creative and Cultural Industries and Night Studies. He is currently in charge of the financed PAPIIT project IN303820, "Transnational networks of knowledge transmission in the cultural industries of North America."

Position:

Full Researcher

Professor Núñez was director of the CISAN UNAM from 2009 to 2017. She has been a fulltime researcher for 23 years. She did graduate work in sociology at the same university. Her career as a specialist began in research on a project on U.S. history at the Dr. José María Luis Mora Institute, and later at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in the domestic policy area of what was then the Institute of United States Studies.

The most important honors she has received are the following: she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the United States; she has been recognized as an associate researcher at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University; and, in addition, she spent a research stay at Georgetown University. The UNAM has given her the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for her career as a woman member of the university. She is currently a member of the Executive Board and treasurer of the United States-Mexico Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (Comexus); a member of the Executive Council of the Metropolis International Network, and of the Advisory Board of the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the United States.

Professor Núñez teaches in the International Relations Division of the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences. Her vast academic oeuvre includes 11 books that she has co-authored, edited, or compiled, and more than 40 articles or book chapters in Mexican and foreign publications. Particularly noteworthy among the books are México en el pensamiento económico, político y social de los Estados Unidos (Mexico in the Economic, Political, and Social Thinking of the United States) with Adolfo Aguilar Zínser; and Critical Issues in the New U.S-Mexico Relations: Stumbling Blocks or Constructive Paths, published by CISAN/UNAM and Michigan State University. Outstanding among the chapters and/or articles are “Cultura Política” (Political Culture) in the work ¿Qué es Estados Unidos? (What Is the United States?) (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008), “Estados Unidos (El ‘noble salvaje’ en el entramado legal y el imaginario político estadounidense)” (The United States [The ‘Noble Savage’ in the Legal Structural Framework and the U.S. Political Imaginary]) in the book Los amerindios en la narrativa occidental (The Amerinds in the Western Narrative) (Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2010); and “Current Challenges of the U.S.-Mexico Relations,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (ILAS/CASS), 2011 [published in Chinese].

Professor Santín received his doctorate in political and social sciences (2008), his master’s in international relations (2002), and his bachelor’s in Latin American studies (1997) from the UNAM. He spent a post-doctoral stay with support from Conacyt at the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Honorable Autonomous University of Puebla (2009-2010). He has been a member of the National System of Researchers since 2014.

In 2011, he entered the CISAN as a researcher, developing the project “Succession and Balance of Power in Canada (1980-2010). Analysis and Perspectives of the Party System after Three Decades of Liberal and Conservative Governments.” His lines of research are the Canadian political system the internal processes of political parties, and the federal elections in Canada. He also specializes in Canada’s relations with The United States, Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

He has been a professor at the UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters College of Latin American Studies (CELA) (2004-2007); and in the international relations major at the Monterrey Technological Institute of Higher Learning (ITESM), State of Mexico campus (2004-2007) and Puebla campus (2010-2011). He also taught in the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Honorable Autonomous University of Puebla (2010). Since 2011, he has given courses on research methodology and U.S. history at the UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters.

Professor Santín has authored the book Sucesión y balance de poder en Canadá entre gobiernos liberales y conservadores: antecedentes y procesos partidistas internos (1980-2011) (Succession and Balance of Power in Canada between Liberal and Conservative Governments: Background and Internal Party Politics [1980-2011]) (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM, 2014).

He has published articles in magazines published domestically and abroad dealing with the internal life of Canada’s Liberal and Conservative Parties, as well as its federal elections over the last three decades and contemporary Canadian relations with different Latin American countries.

Outstanding among his most recent publications are:

“La política exterior canadiense bajo el gobierno conservador de Stephen Harper: entre la convicción y la polémica” (Canadian Foreign Policy under Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government: Amidst Conviction and Polemics), Norteamérica, Revista Académica del CISAN-UNAM, year 10, no. 1, July-December 2015, ISSN: 1870-3550, http://www.revistanorteamerica.unam.mx/index.php/nam/article/view/240/218.

“Las políticas públicas canadienses en materia de inmigración y refugio bajo el gobierno conservador de Stephen Harper. ¿Mayores restricciones, o mejores y modernas regulaciones?” (Canadian Immigration and Refugee Policies under Stephen Harper’s Conservative Government. More Restrictions or Better, Modern Regulations?) Journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies vol. 8, no. 1 (June 2015), Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR).Transcultural Mobility, http://interamericaonline.org/volume-8-1/pena/.

“La política conservadora del primer ministro canadiense Stephen Harper hacia América Latina” (primera parte) (The Conservative Politics of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper toward Latin America (Part 1), Revista Trabajadores, Universidad Obrera de México, year 19, no. 106 (January-February 2015), ISSN 1665-2630. Co-authored with Dr. John Kirk, of Dalhoisue University, Nova Scotia, Canada, http://www.uom.mx/publicaciones/trabajadores/trabajadores_106.pdf.

“La política conservadora del primer ministro canadiense Stephen Harper hacia América Latina” (segunda parte)” (The Conservative Politics of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper toward Latin America (Part 2), Revista Trabajadores, Universidad Obrera de México, year 19, no. 107, March-April 2015, ISSN 1665-2630. Co-authored with Dr. John Kirk, of Dalhoisue University, Nova Scotia, Canada, http://www.uom.mx/publicaciones/trabajadores/trabajadores_107.pdf.

“Obama’s Canada Doctrine and the Campaign against Terrorism,” in Hanna S. Kassab and Jonathan Rosen, eds., The Obama Doctrine in the Americas, Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century (Lanham Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015). Co-authored with Dr. Athanasius Hristoulas of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), ISBN-10: 1498523994, ISBN-13: 978-1498523998.

“La conformación de la Cámara de los Comunes y los gobiernos de Canadá en cinco procesos electorales federales  (2000-2011)” (Make-up of the Canadian House of Commons  and Government in Five Federal Elections [2000-2011]), part 1, Revista Norteamérica, Year 7 no. 2 (2012) http://www.revistascisan.unam.mx/Norteamerica/pdfs/n14/NAM00700207.pdf.

“La conformación de la Cámara de los Comunes y los gobiernos de Canadá en cinco procesos electorales federales  (2000-2011)” (Make-up of the Canadian House of Commons  and Government in Five Federal Elections [2000-2011]), part 2, Year 8 no. 1 (2013) http://www.revistascisan.unam.mx/Norteamerica/pdfs/n15/NAM00800104.pdf.

“Canadá, Estados Unidos, América Latina y los desafíos para hacer cumplir la declaración sobre seguridad en las Américas” (Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the Challenges to Enforcing the Declaration on Security in the Americas), in Canadá, seguridad nacional, cambio económico e identidades. Una mirada desde América Latina (Canada, National Security, Economic Change, and Identities. A View from Latin America) (Colombia: Universidad del Rosario and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2013).

“Retorno al poder y consolidación del Partido Conservador en Canadá (2006-2013): Antecedentes y características” (Return to Power and Consolidation of the Conservative Party in Canada (2006-2013): Background and Characteristics), Revista Ad Universa, Year 4, vol. 1 (2013-2014).

Camelia Tigau was born in Romania. She studied journalism at the University of Bucharest and at the Schools of Journalism in Utrecht (Holland) and Aarhus (Denmark). She holds an MA in Communication and a PhD in Social and Political Sciences by National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
She is currently an associate fellow and coordinator of the Area of Integration Studies at the Center for Research on North America from the same university.
She also serves as regional vice-President of the Global Research Forum on Diasporas and Transnationalism (India) and member of the expert committee of Migration News.
She was a visiting researcher at The Baker Institute for Public Policy (Rice University, Houston) and at the University of York (Toronto).
She is a member of the National Research System, level 2.
Her work includes five books and various peer-reviewed articles on skilled migration and scientific diplomacy.

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Position:

Senior researcher of the Area of Integration Studies, CISAN, UNAM. Coordinator of the Area of Integration Studies.

Professor Valdés-Ugalde was director of the CISAN UNAM from 2001 to 2009. He is currently a tenured full-time researcher, category “B” and has PRIDE D. He occupied the Óscar Uribe Villegas Chair at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Xochimilco campus, from August 2001 to September 2012, and teaches international relations and political science at the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences. He is an internationalist and an expert in political science.

He did his master’s in political sociology and his doctorate in international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His specialties are sociological theory, theory of international relations, political theory, U.S. history and foreign policy, as well as North American studies.

His current research projects are “The United States and Democracy in Latin America. Political, Economic, and Social Transition: Governance and Security” and “From ‘Americanism’ as a Hegemonic Ideology to Intelligent Power as an (Inevitable) Strategy for the New Century. Globalization, Decline and Recovery in the U.S.: Toward a New Foreign Policy? Regional Repercussions. A Journey Compared.” He has been a visiting researcher and professor in Europe, The United States and Mexico, outstanding among which are his stays at LSE (August 1997-July 1998); at the CIDE’s DEI (August 2009-August 2010); at the Berlin Free University’s Lateinamerika-Institut (July 2010); and at the UAM-Xochimilco (2011-2012), covering topics in U.S. foreign policy for Mexico and Latin America, international governance, globalization and integration in Latin America, inter-American relations, hemispheric security, and Mexico’s national security. He is currently spending two sabbatical years (2013-2015) at the Lateinamerika-Institut, of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Germany to carry out his latest research project.

He is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and a Level-II member of the National System of Researchers, as well as the Mexican Council for International Affairs (Comexi), the International Studies Association (ISA), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Metropolis North America (Canada), and the Mexican Association for International Studies (AMEI). The Mexican government appointed him as a member of the Executive Board of the United States-Mexico Commission for Cultural and Educational Exchange (Comexus), a post he occupied from 2007 to 2010. He is a member of the Ministry of the Economy’s Advisory Council for International Trade Negotiations and of the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS) Board of Advisors. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the following publications: Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Latin American Politics and Policy Journal, Foreign Policy Edición Mexicana, Voices of Mexico, and Norteamérica, Revista Académica.

Professor Valdés-Ugalde has had more than 25 years’ experience in research and international studies as well as North American studies. He has published 10 books as author, co-author, and editor; 30 book chapters, and more than 60 articles in specialized journals like Norteamérica. Revista Académica, Voices of Mexico, Foreign Policy (Mexican edition), Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, Nexos, Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior and Canada Watch. The following titles are among the most outstanding: Estados Unidos: Intervención y poder mesiánico. La guerra fría en Guatemala, 1954 (The United States: Intervention and Messianic Power. The Cold War in Guatemala, 1954); By Other Means, For Other Ends: Bush’s Re-election Reassessed; Globalidad y Conflicto: EU y la crisis de septiembre (Globality and Conflict: the U.S. and the September Crisis); Foreign Policy and Governance in Mexico. A Conceptual and Operational Dilemma; Is Obama Black?; Mexico, Obama and the Uncertain Future for a Trilateral Agreement on Security; Mexico’s Polity and Economy: Security vs. Progress and Our Failed Integration; US-Latin American Relations: An Alternative Geopolitical Approach?; El gobierno de Barack Obama y la nueva configuración de la Agenda de Seguridad Internacional (The Barack Obama Administration and the New Configuration of the International Security Agenda); La seguridad nacional de México ante la agenda de seguridad internacional post 11 de septiembre (Mexico’s National Security and the Post-9/11 International Security Agenda); Saving the Homeland: Obama’s New Smart Power Security Strategy.

He is the founder of the CISAN’s Norteamèrica. Revista Académica and was its president from 2006 to 2009. He was the director of the magazine Voices of Mexico from August 2001 to August 2009. He served as president of the Executive Committee of Metropolis Norteamérica from June 2008 to August 2009, which was part of the Metropolis International, Canada network. In addition, Mexico’s Senate appointed him coordinator of the NAFTA evaluation (1999-2000). He was assistant counselor of the Risk Agenda for the former Presidential National Security Advisor’s Office (2001). He is an on-going political commentator for the radio program “Focus” on NRM and for CNN, and a contributor to the Mexico City daily newspaper Excélsior.

Professor Vargas received her doctorate in 2003 from the UNAM Energy Engineering Graduate Program.
She was a fulltime researcher at the Colegio de México Energy Program from 1984 to 1988. From 1989 until today, she has been a fulltime researcher at CISAN. She is a member of the National System of Researchers.
At CISAN, she was the coordinator of the Mexico-United States Area from 1997 to 2000, and later of the Globality Studies Area (2001 to 2009). She is a professor in the International Relations Graduate Program of the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences and at the School of Higher Learning (FES), Aragón campus. In 2012, she was invited to give a seminar in the doctoral program in energy and development at the San Simon Higher University in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

She has to her credit more than 100 publications, including books, book chapters, and articles of different kinds dealing with her main research topic, the U.S. energy sector and its implications for Mexico. Her most recent book is El papel de México en la integración y la seguridad energética de Norteamérica (Mexico’s Role in North American Integration and Energy Security) (Mexico City: cisan/unam, 2014). Among the recent book chapters and articles she has authored are the following: “El contexto geopolítico y la iniciativa de Reforma Energética (re) del PRIAN” (The Geopolitical Context and the Energy Reform Initiative), in Jaime Cárdenas Gracia, comp. Reforma Energética. Análisis y Consecuencias (Energy Reform. Analysis and Consequences) (Mexico City: Tirant lo Blanch, 2015); ”Geopolítica del shale gas y el tight oil en Norteamérica” (The Geopolitics of Shale Gas and Tight Oil in North America), in Arturo Oropeza, comp., Reforma Energética y Desarrollo Industrial. Un compromiso Inaplazable (Energy Reform and Industrial Development. A Commitment that Cannot Be Postponed) (Mexico City: Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas/unam, and Instituto para el Desarrollo Industrial y el Crecimiento Económico, 2015); “Reforma energética. De servicio Público a Modelo de Negocios” (Energy Reform. From Public Service to Business Model), Política y Cultura no. 43, Spring 2015; “La integración de América del Norte: contratos petroleros” (The Integration of North America: Oil Contracts), Petroquimex, year 12, no. 76, July-August 2015; “El precio del petróleo y las consecuencias para México” (The Price of Oil and the Consequences for Mexico), Petroquimex, year 12, no. 75, May-June 2015; “El shale gas, un proyecto geopolítico de cobertura mundial” (Shale Gas, a Geopolitical Project for World Coverage), Petroquimex , year 12, no. 78, November-December 2015; “La Reforma Energética: a 20 años del tlcan” (The Energy Reform, 20 Years after nafta), Problemas del Desarrollo, vol. 46, no. 180, January-March 2015.

Professor Vargas has participated in more than 20 international conferences held in the United States; Berlin; Santiago de Chile; São Paulo, Brazil; Ho Chi Minh City; and Mexico City. Her most recent keynote speech was part of the seminar “ El caleidoscopio de la Reforma en Materia de Hidrocarburos: retos y perspectivas” (The Kaleidoscope of the Reform in Hydrocarbons: Challenges and Perspectives), organized by the unam Institute for Legal Research, the University of Tamaulipas, and the unam Center for Social Research, held June 16 and 17, 2015.

In Mexico, she has participated as a presenter or keynote speaker at 126 events, including seminars and round table discussions.

Among the prizes and honors she has received is first place for a research stay at Harvard University, awarded by the Center for International and Foreign Affairs and the Fundación México at Harvard (1991); she was invited to be part of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council’s  International Advisors Group (1997); she was selected together with a group of nine other Mexicans by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico and the U.S. State Department to participate in the Partners in Trade Working Group. Progress through Understanding (1992); and she was part of a group of advisors to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, of Montreal, Canada (2001).

She has spent several research stays at the California State University at Los Angeles, awarded her by the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce under the Good Neighbor Internship Program in 1999. From October 2010 to September 2011, she spent another research stay at the São Paulo, Brazil University Center for Energy and Electro-technology.

Professor Verea, an internationalist sociologist, was the founding director of the CISAN (1989-1997). Currently, she is a researcher in the Integration Studies Area, specializing in migration policies in North America. She received her master’s in international relations from the UNAM.

She has been the academic coordinator of the CISAN diploma course “Mexico, the United States and Canada: An International and Regional Dimension” since its creation in 2002. She teaches in the Master’s in Mexico-United States Studies program at the School of Higher Learning (FES), Acatlán campus, and was that program’s founding coordinator (1982-1988).

She has compiled and edited many books. The most recent are Impacts of the Recent Economic Crisis (2008-2009) on International Migration,(México: cisan-unam, 2014); “Managing International Immigration during Turbulent Times”, Migration Studies, Special issue, Oxford University (2014);Anti-Immigrant Sentiments, Actions and Policies. The North American Region and the European Union (Mexico City: CISAN, 2012), and Nuevas experiencias de la migración de retorno (New Experiences in Return Migration) (Mexico City: Metropolis-CISAN, at press).She has also authored many articles and book chapters, mainly on migratory policies in North America and Mexico-U.S. relations. Her most recent essays include “Immigration trends after 20 years of nafta” 2015,“EI debate hacia una reforma migratoria en Estados Unidos durante  los primeros años del siglo xxi” (The Immigration Reform Debate in the First Years of the Twenty-first Century), 2014; “El congreso estadounidense y Obama: propuestas, posiciones y acciones ante el fracaso de una reforma migratoria íntegra” (The U.S. Congress and Obama: Proposals, Positions, and Actions in the Face of the Failure of Comprehensive Immigration Reform), 2014, Legal and Unauthorized Mexican Migration Flows to the US (at press).

She was the general director of the UNAM Office for Inter-Institutional Collaboration from 2002 to 2004, and is currently a member of various collegiate bodies, academic hiring advisory committees, and national and foreign editorial boards. She is the vice-president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (Comexi).

She was awarded the Juana Ramírez de Asbaje Prize by the UNAM the very first year it was given, in 2005.

Roberto Zepeda has a doctorate in political and social sciences with a specialization in international relations, a master’s in North American Studies, and a bachelor’s in communications sciences. He is currently a fulltime researcher at CISAN. He has published and edited books in publishing houses in Mexico, the United States, and the United Kingdom, as well as articles in national and international academic journals.

He has been an associate professor at the University of Sheffield Department of Politics as well as its Department of Hispanic Studies. He has also given classes in international relations at different universities in Mexico.

He did a post-doctoral stay at the UNAM Institute of Social Research.

His lines of research focus on the study of sub-national government relations in North America, with an interdisciplinary approach.

He is a member of the Mexican Association of International Studies (AMEI), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). He has also belonged to the National System of Researchers (SNI), Level 1, since January 2014.