Dr. Gilberto Morales Arroyo is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco Campus. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a Master’s degree in Sociology from UAM’s Azcapotzalco Campus, and a Ph.D. in Political Sociology and Gender Studies from the same institution.

He is part of the Political Sociology curricular track and currently serves as Head of the Academic Area of Theory and Political Analysis in the Department of Sociology at the Azcapotzalco Campus. He also coordinates the workshop “Sociology and Literature” and the seminar “Sociology, Feminism, and Social Transgression.”

He was awarded the University Merit Medal at both the undergraduate and doctoral levels. He previously worked as a researcher at the Institute for Social Research of the Autonomous University of Baja California. He has conducted sociological interventions in prisons and psychiatric hospitals and has served as a consultant for international organizations such as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as for public institutions including Mexico’s Office of the Attorney General. He is also a member of the faculty and research staff of ConGenia, Center for Gender Studies, A.C.

His research lines focus on:
• Social transgression and penal punishment from a gender perspective.
• Gender subjectivities and identities.
• Feminism and gender perspective.

More broadly, his research examines the relationships between identities, subjectivities, and power structures, as well as processes of transgression and penal punishment, approached through a gender perspective.