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Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen
Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen (Maya Aguiluz-Ibarguen or Maya Aguiluz)
Career researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) since 1995. Since 2015, she has been Senior researcher. In 2008, she joined the National System of Researchers (SNII), where she is a national researcher, level III, of the Secretariat of Science, Innovation, Humanities, and Technology (SECIHTI) of the Mexican federal government.
Under her coordination, this Center of Reserch (CEIICH) hosts the annual Advanced Research Seminar on Body Studies (ESCUE Seminar), which was inaugurated in 2013 (www.ceiich.unam.mx).
She is also a professor and tutor in the Graduate Program in Latin American Studies at UNAM and has been a member of its Master's and Doctoral Tutoring Registry since 2000. She is also a tutor in the Political and Social Sciences Graduate Program at the same university and a tutor in the Graduate Program in Gender Studies, which was inaugurated in 2021 at the same university. In Mexico, she has been a visiting professor at the Universidad Veracruzana, the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, and the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango. She has carried out research stays with projects at the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) at Yale University (2013, 2018, and 2023), at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at New York University (2013 and 2018), at the Center for International and Global Studies at Georgetown University (2009), and at the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Advanced Social Research/ I-Communitas at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Public University of Navarra, España (2014 and 2022, respectively).Her publications include articles and book chapters, and she has edited more than fifteen titles, including collective works and monographic issues of specialized journals in Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, and Argentina. She is the author of El lejano próximo (Barcelona, Anthropos 2009. Printed version), Ocho religaduras sociológicas. De cuerpos y signaturas (La Paz: Autodeterminación, limited handmade edition; and, UNAM 2013. Printed version) and, together with Josetxo Beriain, A Sociological Genealogy of Cultural Wars (Routledge, 2023, E-Book-2024, Printed version).
Among recent articles are: “The nature-culture relationship process. Toward a constellar relationality,” Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 10, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1441600; with Sidenei Pithan da Silva, “Teaching Philosophy, Knowledge, and Education at the Interface of Liquid Modernity,” Práxis Educativa, Vol. 8, e21406, 2025, p. 1-20,https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.19.22640.084; with Javier Gil-Gimeno, “A Sociological Genesis of Creativity and its Relation to Transcendence” Current Sociology, Vol. 72 Issue 2, (08-02-2023) (International Sociological Association, ISA), https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231190724.
Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen (Maya Aguiluz-Ibarguen or Maya Aguiluz)
Career researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) since 1995. Since 2015, she has been Senior researcher. In 2008, she joined the National System of Researchers (SNII), where she is a national researcher, level III, of the Secretariat of Science, Innovation, Humanities, and Technology (SECIHTI) of the Mexican federal government.
Under her coordination, this Center of Reserch (CEIICH) hosts the annual Advanced Research Seminar on Body Studies (ESCUE Seminar), which was inaugurated in 2013 (www.ceiich.unam.mx).
She is also a professor and tutor in the Graduate Program in Latin American Studies at UNAM and has been a member of its Master's and Doctoral Tutoring Registry since 2000. She is also a tutor in the Political and Social Sciences Graduate Program at the same university and a tutor in the Graduate Program in Gender Studies, which was inaugurated in 2021 at the same university. In Mexico, she has been a visiting professor at the Universidad Veracruzana, the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, and the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango. She has carried out research stays with projects at the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) at Yale University (2013, 2018, and 2023), at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at New York University (2013 and 2018), at the Center for International and Global Studies at Georgetown University (2009), and at the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Advanced Social Research/ I-Communitas at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Public University of Navarra, España (2014 and 2022, respectively).Her publications include articles and book chapters, and she has edited more than fifteen titles, including collective works and monographic issues of specialized journals in Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, and Argentina. She is the author of El lejano próximo (Barcelona, Anthropos 2009. Printed version), Ocho religaduras sociológicas. De cuerpos y signaturas (La Paz: Autodeterminación, limited handmade edition; and, UNAM 2013. Printed version) and, together with Josetxo Beriain, A Sociological Genealogy of Cultural Wars (Routledge, 2023, E-Book-2024, Printed version).
Among recent articles are: “The nature-culture relationship process. Toward a constellar relationality,” Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 10, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1441600; with Sidenei Pithan da Silva, “Teaching Philosophy, Knowledge, and Education at the Interface of Liquid Modernity,” Práxis Educativa, Vol. 8, e21406, 2025, p. 1-20,https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.19.22640.084; with Javier Gil-Gimeno, “A Sociological Genesis of Creativity and its Relation to Transcendence” Current Sociology, Vol. 72 Issue 2, (08-02-2023) (International Sociological Association, ISA), https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231190724.