Internship Professors
Students who enroll in the Internship for credit will be assigned an Internship Professor to guide them in their research. Professors are assigned based on subject interest. If a student is accepted in an internship which does not fit the interest of a professor listed below, a new professor will be assigned.
Dr. María de los Ángeles Gallegos Ramírez
Dr. Gallegos is Professor-Researcher in the Department of Regional Cultural Studies at the University of Guadalajara, and professor in the Department of History. She teaches undergraduate level courses in History and Anthropology. She has a Bachelor of Arts and Master's of Social Sciences from the University of Guadalajara, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since 1992 she has focused her research on the study of culture and popular religiosity in western Mexico, specifically concentrating on the cult of the Virgin Mary. Currently, she is conducting research on historical memory, collective imagination and cultural traditions in the region. Her research is sustained mainly over long periods of fieldwork in various towns in the state of Jalisco, interviews and life stories. Her research results have been published in La recreación de imaginarios colectivos: peregrinaciones al santuario de la Virgen de Talpa (1997) and Culto mariano en el Occidente de México: la Virgen de la Defensa en la sierra de Tapalpa (2006), as well as in various journal articles and circles of academic discussion.
Dr. Lorraine Karnoouh
Dr. Karnoouh is a guest researcher with CIESAS-Golfo. She received her Master’s degree in Political Science from the Sorbonne in Paris and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Paris (Paris 7) with a dissertation on the construction of racial identity in Cuba. Her research and teaching interests include public health, education, Cuban santaria practices, and the construction of racial identity in Cuba. Recent publications include: “La ‘lucha’. Les fondements d’un registre de l’identité cubaine entre phraséologie révolutionnaire et rhétorique des pratiques in Guerres et identitésdans les Amériques” in ADICORE (Analyse de Discours Constructions et Réalités), University of Rennes Press, forthcoming, and “La construction du patrimoine national révolutionnaire cubain. Une étude de la sacralisation politique des bâtiments publics à travers leur transformation fonctionnelle et symbolique” Cahiers de l’Institut du patrimoine, University of Quebec-Montreal, “Patrimoine et sacralisation, patrimonialisation du sacré,” 2009.
Dr. Martin Mora Martínez
Dr. Mora received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), with a thesis “Nuevas mitologías de la identidad transhumana: artefacto, errancia y transtierro como personajes liminales”, and specializing in Social Studies of Science and Technology. He is a Professor Researcher in the Department of Socio-Urban Studies and coordinator of the Master’s degree in Social Science (CUCSH). He belongs to the National System of Researchers, Level I. His research projects focus on social studies of science, cybercultures, urbanism and new technologies, virtualization of political action, media arts and hacker ethics. He is the coordinator of the Mexican Centre for Technoscience and Cyberculture (University of Guadalajara). Dr. Mora works as a consultant on issues of urban design, planning metropolitan social management and public spaces, new technologies and processes metropolis, and municipal public policies. Additionally, he collaborates on urban art projects, video art, sound art, street performance, bicycle use and the protection of pedestrian rights. His recent publications include: Entre escotomas y fosfenos and Observatorio mexicano de tecnociencia y ciberculturas y de Ciberoamérica en red (both in Editorial UOC: 2007) and the Introduction to Guadalajara. De Alarifes, Catrines y Bicicleteros (Gobierno de Jalisco-Albertina Proyectos Culturales: 2009).
Dr. Alicia Vargas Amésquita
Dr. Vargas is a professor-researcher at the University of Guadalajara. She has a Master’s degree in Mexican Literature from the University of Guadalajara and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Literary Theory from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her doctoral dissertation, “Imágenes de la mujer en el teatro de la Revolución Mexicana” focused on feminine representation in Mexico in the first half of the 20th century. Currently she is working on a project titled: “La construcción de un mito: la sodadera en la literatura y las artes visuales en México (1900-1950).” Other recent publications include: “Ser muy hombre y ser una buena mujer”, in Ortiz Monasterio, Pablo (Coord.) Cine y revolución. La Revolución vista a través del cine, 2010, and “¿Tonta y estúpida, o el fingimiento de la mujer que no sabe? La visión masculina del habla femenina en el Teatro de la Revolución”, in Estudios sociales. Nueva época, no. 6, 2010.
