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Doctor Patrick Gun Cuninghame has been a Professor of history and sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City since July 2008. He has taught undergraduate courses in contemporary Mexican history, sociology of labor and society, and economics in Latin America, as well as graduate courses in epistemology and methodology of law and contemporary state theory. His current research projects are entitled "The praxis of autonomy and self-government in the Pueblos Originarios. A historical comparison of Mexico, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador" and "Cognitive capitalism, precarious work, student movements and knowledge production in the university: a comparative study of the Americas (Mexico) and Europe (Italy)". He has 54 academic publications published in Spanish, English, Italian, German, French, Greek, Polish, Turkish and Chinese, with 252 citations. His most recent publication is entitled: "Negri a Francoforte: La Polemica tra la teoria e il marxismo autonomo, in MACHINA, December 22, 2020.

He coordinated the Area of Power Relations and Political Culture in the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences at UAM Xochimilco Campus from June 2009 to January 2011. He was a member of the editorial committee of Argumentos, a quarterly journal of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the UAM Xochimilco Campus from 2009 to 2012; he coordinated special issues on the global economic crisis of 2008 and another on contemporary social movements in 2010. He was also a member of the executive committee of ISA-RC30 (Sociology of Work) from 2006 to 2010.

He was born in Ireland and educated in Ireland and England. He received an MA in History from Edinburgh University in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Middlesex University, London, in 2002, with a thesis on Italian autonomous social movements of the 1970s. He was a member of the editorial boards of Capital & Class (1997 -1999) and London Notes (1991-1993). He previously worked at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (2004-2008),in Chihuahua, Mexico,researching the relationship between globalization, the maquiladora export industry and transnational and hybrid identities in the Ciudad Juárez - El Paso border area. He has previously worked at the universities of Turin, Italy, Nablus, Palestine, and London, England. His areas of specialization are the history of Mexican indigenous peoples, Italian autonomous Marxism, contemporary Mexican history, methodology and epistemology, sociology of labor, state theory, social movement theory, globalization theory, identity theory, and border theory.