Professor-researcher of the Master's Degree in Women's Studies and the Doctorate in Feminist Studies of the Department of Politics and Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)-Xochimilco. She holds a doctorate in international and cultural studies from Tsuda University in Tokyo. Her lines of research are women, nation and citizenship; activism from culture; women's movements and gender politics in South Africa; feminisms in Africa and Japan, and politics of memory. She has coordinated, among others, Reading and thinking about racism (University of Guadalajara, 2004); Gender equality and political participation. Chile, China, Egypt, Liberia, Mexico and South Africa (El Colegio de México / Center for the Study of Asia and Africa, 2008); with Ana Lau Jaiven, Women and citizenship in Mexico: case studies (UAM-Xochimilco / Itaca, 2011); with Ana Lau Jaiven, At the crossroads of gender and citizenship: political subjects, rights, government, nation and political action (UAM-Xochimilco / Itaca, 2011); Women facing the paradoxes of citizenship (UAM-Xochimilco / Terracota, in press), and post-apartheid South Africa: nation, citizenship, government, social movements, gender and sexualities (UAM-Xochimilco / MC, in press).