Claudia Otazua Polo works as a communication assistant at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, María Sibila Merian (CALAS). She holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Camagüey, Cuba, and a master's degree in Communication from the University of Guadalajara.

She is consultant for the Revista Mexicana de Comunicación of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa.

Research interests

• Social Imaginaries
• Photography
• Tourism

Publications

PhD in Art History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2006). He has been a professor of Art History in Jalisco at the University of Guadalajara since 2000. He participated in the Research Seminar of the National Museum of Art (2002 and 2012). He is the author of a dozen titles about art in Jalisco among which stand out the coordination of 3 volumes of "La catedral de Guadalajara, Historia y significados", Colegio de Jalisco, 2013. "Ver a Cuadro, historia y análisis de la fotografía en México y Cuba", (coordinator), Mexico, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2020.

María Fernanda López Sandoval is a senior lecturer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador. She studied her undergraduate degree in Geography at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and did her PhD in Human Geography at the University of Regensburg (Germany) with a post-doctoral research stay at the University of Erlangen Nuremberg (Germany). She is a founding member of the Geographical Association of Ecuador and editor-in-chief of Iconos, a social science journal for Latin America.

Professor - researcher at the Department of Sociocultural Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). PhD in Social Scientific Studies, in the area of Communication, Culture and Society. Master in Science and Culture Communication. Member of the National System of Researchers, Level II. Full Professor at ITESO. Her lines of research are located at the intersection between Public Communication of Science and Communication of socio-environmental problems.