Professor Mario Rufer is a historian from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, Master's and Ph.D. in Asian and African Studies and holds a Specialization in History and Anthropology from El Colegio de México.

He is currently a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus, where he teaches Theory of Cultural Processes and Postcolonial Theory.

His lines of research are oriented towards cultural studies and postcolonial criticism, studies of subalternity, and the social uses of the past and temporality: nation and public history, archives, museums, community memory, and heritage. He has also written about new methodologies and transdisciplinary criticism.

He is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACyT in Mexico. He has published articles in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese in indexed journals. Among his books as author or editor are: La nación en escenas. Memoria pública y usos del pasado en contextos poscoloniales (El Colegio de México, 2010); Entangled Heritages. Postcolonial uses of the past in Latin America (co-edited with Olaf Kaltmeier, Routledge, London, 2017); Indisciplining Research. Archive, fieldwork and writing (co-edited with Frida Gorbach, Siglo XXI-UAM, 2017); Horizontality. Towards a critique of Methodology (co-edited with Inés Cornejo Portugal, CALAS-CLACSO, 2020).