Guadalupe Valencia

She holds a PhD in Sociology from UNAM, a Master's degree in Political Sociology from the Dr. José Ma. Luis Mora Institute and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Universidad Iberoamericana. She is a full-time tenured "C" researcher of the Research Program in Social Sciences and Literature of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) of UNAM. She belongs to the SNI at level II. She is President of the Asociación Interamericana de Estudios sobre el Tiempo, AC, and member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She is currently the Coordinator of Humanities at UNAM. She was director of CEIICH-UNAM and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Latin American Studies.

For more than a decade her lines of research have been social time, temporal uses and discourses and their relationship with social identities, and she has recently incorporated the temporal character of the historical event into her research. She has been a university professor for three decades, teaching nearly a hundred courses in Mexico and abroad on methodology of social research and problems of knowledge in the social sciences at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Among his main publications are the books: “Guanajuato: sociedad, economía, política y cultura” (1998); “Entre Cronos y Kairós. Las formas del tiempo sociohistórico” (2007), “Tiempos mexicanos” (2010) as well as a good number of chapters and articles on the subject of time, published in collective books and in national and foreign journals.