Rossana Reguillo

Rossana Reguillo
Reguillo in 2007
Born(1955-09-28)28 September 1955
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Died25 April 2026(2026-04-25) (aged 70)
Alma materWestern Institute of Technology and Higher Education (BA)
Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (MA)
Centre of Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsCommunication, Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
WorkplacesWestern Institute of Technology and Higher Education
University of Guadalajara

Rossana Reguillo Cruz[a] (28 September 1955 – 25 April 2026) was a Mexican academic known for researching social norms, human emotions and the relationship between communication, culture, and politics in Latin America and how it is affected by drug trafficking. She held a professor position at ITESO University[1] and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education.[2] Additionally, she was a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and served as a visiting professor at New York University.[3][4]

Reguillo was known to combine analysis with advocacy of social phenomena by advocating for social change. For instance, her studies on the 1992 drainage explosions in Guadalajara[3][5] and the involvement of youth in the Mara Salvatrucha[6] were conducted with a sense of activism and emotions rather than a purely rational and scientific outlook.[7]

Background

Rossana Reguillo was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on 28 September 1955. She was married to Jabez, a Mexican cartoonist.[8]

Rossana Reguillo died on 25 April 2026, at the age of 70.[9]

Work

Reguillo held a doctorate in social sciences which has been her main field of study ever since.[4]

She is known for her research on subjects such as communication, social anthropology, and cultural studies.

Reguillo held numerous visiting positions and chairs at different universities:

From 1981, Reguillo was a professor in the Sociocultural Studies Department[13] at ITESO University[1] and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education.[2] She also served as the coordinator of its formal research program in sociocultural studies since 2001. Reguillo was a permanent member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences,[14] and she held a level III rank[15] in the National Researchers System of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology.

Reguillo received recognition for her work, including the 1995 Best Research in Social Anthropology Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Award from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the 1996 Ibero-American Award for Municipal and Regional Investigation from the Ibero-American Capital Cities Union in Spain, and the 2010 Advertising and Women Award for Communication Trajectory from the Municipal Institute of Women and the National Council to Prevent Discrimination (CONAPRED).[16] She was also appointed an advisory member for Latin America for the Social Science Research Council in the US.[17]

She taught courses and seminars at universities in Anglo and Latin America, as well as in Spain, including the University of Colima (Mexico), Autonomous University of Queretaro (Mexico), Pontifical Bolivarian University (Colombia), University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico), Central American University (El Salvador), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), ORT University of Montevideo (Uruguay), National University of Colombia (Colombia) and Simón Bolívar Andean University (Bolivia).

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Mexican name, the surname is Reguillo and the second or maternal family name is Cruz.

References

  1. 1 2 "ITESO - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara". Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Dra. Rossana Reguillo Cruz". portal.iteso.mx. Archived from the original on 12 September 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 Reguillo, R. (1995) El video: un dispositivo de investigación en el estudio de las explosiones de Guadalajara. Inventario Antropológico 1.
  4. 1 2 "Rossana Reguillo". hemisphericinstitute.org. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "INVESTIGACIÓN ITESO - DETALLE DE PUBLICACIÓN". investigadores.iteso.mx.
  6. ↑ "scientificcommons.org - Informationen zum Thema". en.scientificcommons.org.
  7. ↑ Reguillo, Rossana (13 June 2019). "TEMA CENTRAL - 3297 La mara: contingencia y afiliacion con el exceso". Nueva Sociedad. 200: 70. OCLC 99574247.
  8. ↑ "E-gallery". www.hemisphericinstitute.org. Archived from the original on 2 July 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Fallece Rossana Reguillo, investigadora del ITESO y referente en ciencias sociales (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ "Our Team - Center for Latin American Studies". clas.stanford.edu.
  11. ↑ "Càtedra UNESCO de Comunicació InCom-UAB". www.portalcomunicacion.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012.
  12. ↑ "Pontificia Universidad Javeriana" (PDF). 6 May 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2012.
  13. ↑ "Profesores". portal.iteso.mx. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "Inicio". amc.mx.
  15. ↑ "Resultados de la Convocatoria 2008: Sistema Nacional de Investigadores" (PDF). www.conacyt.mx. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  16. ↑ "Milenio: Últimas Noticias de México - Actualidad global - Grupo Milenio". www.milenio.com.
  17. ↑ "Search - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - Brooklyn, NY, USA". Social Science Research Council.