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Distinguished Professor. Recognition granted at the Academic College Session no. 303 held on July 30, 2008.

Professor María Del Rocío Grediaga Kuri earned her PhD in Sociology from COLMEX (1999), and her dissertation was awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis in Higher Education by ANUIES.

She served as a Full Professor (Category C) at UAM (1976 until her retirement) and was named a Distinguished Professor at UAM (since 2008). She held roles as a member and head of the Sociology of Universities area within the Department of Sociology at different times and was a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Council for Educational Research (COMIE). She served as Division Coordinator of Research, DCSH-UAM Azcapotzalco (2006-2009), and as Graduate Program Coordinator in Sociology, DCSH-UAM Azcapotzalco (2014-2017). She was Editor of RMIE (2010-2012), reviewer and member of various editorial committees (Reencuentro, Sociológica, Imaginales, etc.); and Visiting Professor at Columbia University in the O'Gorman program (January-March 2013) and in the CEPED-INED-IRD program, Paris (September-December 2013). She was also a visiting researcher at CEPED-IRD-University of Paris V (October 2018-July 2019), supported by a sabbatical grant abroad from UAM and CONACYT.

She led three projects funded by CONACYT, the latest on: Academic Mobility, network strengthening, brain drain, and the influence of developed countries in shaping Mexico’s scientific, governmental, and productive elites (2013-2019).

She served as the head of the Mexican case in a comparative project among seven countries (three in the Latin American region), funded by the French Agency (AFD-EU), to analyze the impact of the privatization and differentiation in characteristics of higher education institutions on educational opportunities and social mobility. The resulting book is currently in press in France.

She collaborated on a project supported by IRD-Mexico, for which support was requested from CONACYT in the basic science call. The project’s technical lead was Dr. Dinorah Miller Flores, head of the Sociology of Universities area, with the project titled: “Educational and Career Pathways in the Megalopolis of the Valley of Mexico (MVM). Institutional Heterogeneity, Labor Markets, and Inequalities.”

She contributed numerous articles to national and international journals and chapters in collective books specializing in these topics.

She was an Associate Foreign Professor at CEPED-IRD-University of Paris V (2020).