Professor Brian Connaughton holds a doctorate in Latin American Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa Campus.

He has specialized in the cultural and institutional history of Latin America in the 18th and 19th centuries, addressing topics such as political and legal culture, religion, and the Church in Mexico in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in Guatemala in the nineteenth century.

Among his latest publications are: Entre la voz de Dios y el llamado de la patria. Religión, identidad y ciudadanía en México, siglo XIX (2010), Ideología y sociedad en Guadalajara (1788-1853): La Iglesia Católica y la disputa por definir la nación mexicana (2012); Religión, política e identidad en la Independencia de México (2010).

Among collective works he has coordinated are: Repensando Guatemala en la época de Rafael Carrera. El país, el hombre y las coordenadas de su tiempo, México, UAM-I/GEDISA, 2015 y Diálogo historiográfico Centroamérica-México, Siglos XVIII-XIX, México, UAM-I/GEDISA, 2017.

He has published articles in Jahrbuch für Geschicte Lateinamerikas, Anales de la Academia de Geografía e Historia de Guatemala, Historia Mexicana, Estudios de Historia Novohispana, La Universidad (El Salvador), Revista Relaciones, Revista Historias del INAH, and Revista Estudios del ITAM, as well as chapters in collective works. In English he has published Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation (1788-1853) (Calgary, 2003), along with essays in collective works and specialized journals.