"Sociologist with an international and multidisciplinary background (in political science, economics, communication, linguistics, and law), I focus on international development, gender studies, and indigenous studies. As a researcher and educator, I am particularly interested in the connections between theories of social problems and social control, and international dynamics and geopolitics. My work examines, among other things, international organizations and civil society. I have a strong interest in theories and research methodologies, particularly qualitative methods, discourse analysis, and ethnography. I am committed to a systematic, critical, and comparative approach to teaching, emphasizing pedagogy as a practice of freedom that nurtures intellectual curiosity, critical dialogue, and learners’ capacity to think through the complexity of the contemporary world.
I have published around fifty scholarly contributions, including books, book chapters, and articles in academic journals such as the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, The Canadian Review of Sociology, European Journal of Economic and Social Systems, Cahiers de recherche sociologique, Politique et Sociétés, Bulletin of Latin American Research, The American Sociologist, Revue québécoise de droit international, Sociologie et sociétés, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, and Revue canadienne d’études du développement. In 2017, I was co-recipient of the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica in Digital Music and Sound Art for a book on music in Southeast Asia.
I have presented more than a hundred lectures and academic papers in about fifteen countries, including at Cornell University, University of Virginia, St. Lawrence University (United States), Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (Spain), Université de Versailles, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (France), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Zhejiang University (China), Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University (Thailand), University of the Philippines, Singapore Management University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Tres de Febrero (Argentina), and University of Havana (Cuba).
I have also shared my work in a variety of professional and academic settings in cities such as New York, Miami, Boston, Baltimore, Vienna, Linz, Berlin, Rabat, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Hanoi, and many others around the world."
