Dr. Analiese Marie Richard holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley (2005). She holds the rank of National Researcher Level I in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII).

She serves as a Full-Time Professor in the Department of Humanities within the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Cuajimalpa, where she has been a faculty member since 2019, following prior academic appointments at universities in Mexico and the United States.

Her research examines citizenship, civil society organizations, new ruralities, cultures of expertise, and environmental governance, integrating the analysis of civil society, affects, the environment, and technoscience from a transnational perspective. She is the author of The Unsettled Sector: NGOs and the Cultivation of Democratic Citizenship in Rural Mexico (Stanford University Press), co-editor of Derechos Humanos y Violencia en México (UNAM), and co-editor, alongside Bruno Gandalgruber and Miruna Achim, of Ensayos en las orillas del tiempo (UAM Cuajimalpa / University of Heidelberg). Her current research project focuses on the history of environmental governance instruments in Mexico and the futures they aim to enable.