Maria del Carmen de la Peza Casares is a distinguished professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, level III and is a founding member of AMIC (Mexican Association of Communication Researchers). She has been deputy director of CONACyT. She is currently working on issues of music, culture and politics, language policy in Mexico, horizontal research methodologies and discourse analysis.