Researcher at CISAN, UNAM, where she was director between 2009 and 2017. She also had the responsibility of directing the UNAM satellite office in Los Angeles, California during 2021 and 2022. In 2019, the Government of Canada, through its Embassy in Mexico, awarded her the 'Canada-Mexico 75' recognition for her contribution to strengthening academic ties between the two nations. Throughout her career, she has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University and other prestigious institutions such as Georgetown University and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Likewise, she was distinguished as a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the United States in 1999. She has postgraduate studies in Sociology from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM. Member of the International Steering Committee of the Metropolis International Network; member of the Advisory Board of the Mexico Institute, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the United States; She served as Vice President of the Mexican Association for International Studies (AMEI) from October 2013 to October 2017. In August 2018, she completed a research stay at the Università di Lingue e Comunicazione in Milan, Italy. She works as a professor in the International Relations Division of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM. She has articles or chapters published in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and China.

• Class inequality and social structure in the United States
• The role of U.S. social movements in the fight against poverty
• U.S.-Mexico Political Relations
• Social and Gender Inequality in North America
• Electoral processes in the United States
• Social actors, structures and processes in North America
• U.S. Domestic Policy
• Migration in North America

Núñez García, Silvia (2022), “Estados Unidos: Nacionalismo vs. Migración”, Omnia. Derecho y Sociedad (Salta, Argentina: Universidad Católica de Salta), pp. 69-80.

Núñez García, Silvia y Consuelo Dávila Pérez (2022), “New Migration’s Gordian Knot: Mexico and the Caravans of the Northern Triangle of Central America”, en Delidji Eric Degila and Valeria Marina Valle (eds.), Governing Migration for Development from the Global Souths. Challenges and Opportunities (Geneva, Switzerland: Geneva Graduate Institute), pp. 234-259.

Núñez García, Silvia (ed.) (2018), La Presidencia de Donald Trump. Contingencia y Conflicto (México: CISAN-UNAM).

Núñez, Silvia y Patricia Escamilla-Hamm (eds.) (2017), El papel de las mujeres como actoras en las Fuerzas Armadas de América del Norte (México: CISAN, UNAM)