Martin Grossmann hold a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool. He is Full Professor of the School of Communication and Arts of University of São Paulo (USP). He served as director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP since 2012 and was director of the Centro Cultural São Paulo from 2006 to 2010. He is creator and coordinator of “Forum Permanente: Between Public and Private”, a mediation and cultural action platform.

Mario Rufer holds a PhD in Asian and African Studies from El Colegio de México with a specialization in History and Anthropology. He is currently Professor-Researcher in the Department of Education and Communication of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco. He is a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico (SNI), level 2.

Martín Retamozo holds a PhD in Social Sciences (FLACSO-Mexico). He is Professor of Philosophy and Magister in Social Sciences (National University of La Plata - UNLP, Argentina) and independent researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) at the Research Institute in Humanities and Social Sciences (IDIHCS-CONICET/UNLP).

Renée de la Torre is professor-researcher at CIESAS Occidente in Guadalajara, Mexico. She has a master's degree in Communication Sciences and a doctorate in Social Sciences with a specialty in Social Anthropology. She is a member of the SNI level III and of the Academy of Science.

Publications

Compilations

2021. de la Torre, René y Semán, Pablo (coords.): Religiones y espacios públicos en América Latina. Buenos Aires: CLACSO / CALAS.

Kurmi Soto Velasco holds a master's degree in Hispanic American Literature from the École Nórmale Supérieure de Lyon. She corrently serves as editor at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales of the Vicepresidencia del Estado and is in charge of the Revista Boliviana de Investigación, the dissemination body of the Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos.

Stefan Peters is Professor of Peace Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and Academic Director of the Colombo-German Institute for Peace (CAPAZ) in Bogotá.

Christof Mauch is Director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Chair in American Cultural History at LMU Munich, President of the Foundation for Transatlantic Culture and Politics, and an Honorary Professor at Renmin University in China. Mauch is a past President of the European Society for Environmental History and a former Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

Odette Casamayor-Cisneros (Ph.D. in Art and Literature from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] of Paris) is a professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Kristina Dietz holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Department of Social Sciences of Universität Kassel, Germany. Together with Bettina Engels she is director of the Junior Research Group “ "Global Change and Local Conflicts? Conflicts over Land in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of Interdependent Transformation Processes".