Professor Gustavo Lins Ribeiro holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the City University of New York (1988), an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Brasilia (1980). He has been a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) since 2015 and belongs to the Department of Cultural Studies at the Lerma Campus. He is a Researcher Level III of the National System of Researchers (SNI-CONACYT) in Mexico. Professor at the Graduate Program in Anthropological Sciences, UAM Iztapalapa Campus.


He was a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (New York). He was president of the Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais-ANPOCS (2012-2014-Brazil) and of the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia-ABA (2002-2004). He was the first president of the World Council of Anthropological Associations-WCAA and of the World Anthropologies Committee of the American Anthropological Association. He was vice-president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences-IUAES (2009-2018) and is its Honorary Member. Professor Emeritus, University of Brasilia (2020).

He wrote and compiled 23 books (including translations) in Portuguese, Spanish, English, published in Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Spain, United States, England, Mexico. His latest books are "Globalization from Below. La otra economía mundial" (Mexico City, Fondo de Cultura Económica/Colegio de México, 2015, compiled with Carlos Alba Vega and Gordon Mathews) and "Otras Globalizaciones" (Mexico City: Gedisa/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa and Lerma Campuses, 2018).

He published more than 170 articles/chapters in 7 languages (Portuguese, Spanish, English, Japanese, French, German and Italian), in 22 countries, on globalization, transnationalism, internet, development and world anthropologies. He is a member of scientific or editorial committees of more than 20 journals in Latin America, Europe, USA and China.

He received in 2021 the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Contributions to Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.