Both my undergraduate and postgraduate academic training has been developed in different countries at the following universities: University of Berkeley (California, USA), Universidad de Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), University of Chile, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) , National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City), Radboud University Nijmegen (Holland), University of Seville, University of Extremadura (Cáceres), San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) where I have been a professor of Social Anthropology since 2000.
Academic degree:
PhD in Social Anthropology, from the University of Seville (Spain).
Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Seville (Spain).
Degree in Geography and History from the University of Seville (Spain).
Postgraduate in Audiovisual Anthropology from the University of Berkeley (California, USA)
I earned my doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Seville in 1999. My doctoral thesis, entitled «Productive processes and Ideological representations: work, gender and local identification in Estepa,» explores the issues of gender and industrial work. I received the best qualification cum laude unanimously and the 1999 Extraordinary Doctorate Award. I have been continuously developing an extensive research work on Anthropology, Local Development, Audiovisual Anthropology, Gender Equality and Work since 1999. I started in the PERSES working group of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Seville, and since 2001 I have been part of ECULGE (Economics, culture and gender) at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche where , as a research scholar, I have been conducting different research projects.
From 2001 to 2012 I have been the founder and the director of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Gender Studies (SIEG), currently the Research Center for Gender Studies (CIEG), of which I am a member, of the Miguel Hernández University in Elche and I have developed several activities of training and research related to gender studies and cultural anthropology.
I am currently the co-director of the Official Master of Gender and Equality in the Public and Private Domain (UJI-UMH) (11th edition), founding member of the Research Center for Gender Studies (UMH), director of the Doctoral Studies Program of Women, Feminists and Gender (UMH) and director of the research group ECULGE (Economy, culture and gender) of the UMH.