Víctor Santillán holds a PhD in Social Science with a major in Sociology from El Colegio de México and is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNII). He is a professor of the Graduate Program in Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. During his academic career, he has consolidated his expertise in qualitative methodological strategies, focusing mainly on ethnographic and biographical methods.

Pablo Ortemberg holds a PhD in History (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2008) and a BA in Anthropology with a sociocultural orientation (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1999). He is an Independent Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), based at the Institute for Political Research of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). He is Director of the Centre for Political History Studies (CEHP) of the School of Politics and Government at the same university.

Jaime Antonio Preciado Coronado is a professor-researcher at the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies (DEILA) of the University of Guadalajara. He has been coordinator of the PhD in Political Science at the University Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of the same University. D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Paris III. His research interests include the geopolitics of globalization and regional integration, geography of power -local, national, supranational- and democracy.