He is a professor and head of the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa. He was a visiting researcher in the Visiting Scholars Program and Visiting Researchers of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) from the University of Texas at Austin.  Among his publications are Chayotes, donkeys and machetes, El Colegio Mexiquense, AC Those who already danced and they feel, Miguel Angel Porrua