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The Doctor Jaime Ortega Reyna earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa Campus, and holds a graduate degree in Latin American Studies from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His research lines focus on critical theory and the history of subaltern classes in relation to left-wing movements in Mexico and Latin America.
He has published articles, book chapters, and reviews in various scholarly publications in Latin America and the United States. His authored works include: Leer El capital, teorizar la política (Mexico, UNAM, 2018); La incorregible imaginación: itinerarios de Louis Althusser en América Latina (Chile, Doble Ciencia, 2019); Del Palacio Negro a La Selva Lacandona: Louis Althusser en México (Chile, Ariadna, 2023); La raíz nacional-popular. Las izquierdas más allá de la transición (Mexico, CEMOS, 2024); En el medio día de la revolución (Mexico, UAM, 2024); and Es preciso soñar: Lenin en (y para el) marxismo latinoamericano (Ecuador, Atik, 2024). He co-authored, alongside Juan de la Fuente, El invierno social llega a su fin: las izquierdas frente al resurgir campesino, 1959-1965 (Mexico, UAM, 2022), and with Massimo Modonesi, Gramsci y Berlinguer en México. Vínculos entre comunistas italianos y mexicanos en los años 70 (Mexico, UAM, 2023). As co-editor, he compiled Antología del pensamiento crítico mexicano contemporáneo (Buenos Aires, CLACSO, 2015; Mexico, UNAM, 2018), El asalto al cielo era posible: la revolución rusa y nosotros (Mexico, Torres, 2019), El espíritu pensante: Engels en su bicentenario (Quito, Religación Press, 2021), and Pensamiento agrario radical mexicano (Mexico, UACh, 2024).
He has also contributed to the Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (Berlin, Germany) and the Diccionario Biográfico de las Izquierdas Latinoamericanas (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
In 2019, he received the Edmundo O’Gorman Fellowship for a research stay at the Center for Mexican Studies at Columbia University in New York, and in 2023, he was awarded the Silas Palmer Fellowship for archival research at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
He is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores), Level II, and holds a PRODEP academic profile. Dr. Ortega is a founding member of the Asociación Gramsci México, affiliated with the International Gramsci Society. He participated in the CLACSO Working Group “Herencias y perspectivas del marxismo” (2019–2022) and currently serves as facilitator for the group “Historia y coyuntura: perspectivas marxistas.” He is also co-editor of the bulletin El ejercicio del pensar.
Between 2022 and 2024, he was part of the PRONACES Research Collective: “Pasado, presente y perspectiva de la transformación. Memoria, documentación y evaluación de cinco nodos del cambio posneoliberal.” In 2023 and 2024, he served as Technical Coordinator for the PRONAI project “Alimentación universitaria y sustentabilidad: de la milpa a la mesa,” both funded by CONAHCYT. Additionally, he is a member of the Inter-Institutional Network for Strengthening the Social and Solidarity Economy at UAM.
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