Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (PhD, Harvard) is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at ITAM, in Mexico City. Her research explores questions regarding power, law, and agency as they appear in modern and contemporary political thought, from a comparative perspective. She is particularly interested in how our subjectivity—both individual and collective—is shaped by language, habit, reason, and emotion in different social, political, and legal circumstances.

He holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master Degree in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Theater theater, and a PhD in Spanish and Latin Americana Literatures, both from UNED, whith a two years research stay at El Colegio de México. Currently, he is a professor of Estrategias de Comunicación Escrita and Investigación y Redacción Jurídica at ITAM and collaborates as a researcher at Seminario de Tradiciones Populares of El Colegio de México. Since January 2016, he is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores in the category of “Candidate”.