Ruth Jatziri García

She holds a Master's degree in Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the same institution. She has another degree in Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History. Her research interests are: Islam, religion, identity, conversion, Islamic feminism and gender. Her fieldwork has focused on various Muslim communities in Mexico, for example in: San Cristobal de las Casas, Torreon, Monterrey and Mexico City. She is founder of the Research Network on Islam in Mexico (RIIM, 2015).

In 2017 she did a research stay at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and there she conducted fieldwork in Muslim communities located in Madrid, Córdoba and Granada. She has taught undergraduate classes at the National School of Anthropology and History and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

She is a member of the CLACSO group: Latin America and the Middle East, as well as the permanent seminar: Islam in Latin America (CIALC-UNAM). She recently (2017) coordinated issue six of the Magazine Ruta Antropológica: Islam una perspectiva global y local (Anthropological Route: Islam a global and local perspective).

She participated as logistical coordinator of the Arab Week in Mexico in its first three editions (2010-2012) and collaborated (2011-2012) in the project: Ethnographic Census of the Muslim Community in Mexico. She is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she is developing the project entitled: Islam in Northern Mexico. Gender roles in the construction and negotiation of the religious identity of women and men of the Islamic Center of the North in Monterrey.