Rossana Reguillo

Rossana Reguillo is a Mexican scholar known for her research on youth, the city as a social space, the concept of "fear" as a social construct, and the relationship between communication, culture, and politics in Latin America. She currently holds positions as a professor at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Additionally, she has served as a visiting professor at New York University.

Reguillo has made significant contributions to the field of social science in Latin America, establishing herself as a prominent figure in the field. She accompanies her analysis of social phenomena with advocating for social change. For instance, her studies on the 1992 drainage explosions in Guadalajara and the involvement of youth in the Mara Salvatrucha were not conducted with a detached scientific approach that treats research subjects solely as sources of data for drawing conclusions.

Personal life
Rossana Reguillo is the daughter of a Chiapaneca woman and a Republican communist from Madrid who sought refuge in Mexico. She is married to Jabez, a Mexican cartoonist.

Work
Rossana Reguillo is also known for her research on subjects such as youth, the city as a social space, the social construct of "fear," and the interrelationships between communication, culture, and politics. Her academic inquiries span the fields of communication, social anthropology, and cultural studies.

Reguillo has held numerous visiting positions and chairs at different universities:
 * Professor in the Studies of Social Communication Department at the University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico (1995–2001).
 * Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico (1997, 2000).
 * Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Center of Latin American Studies, California (2001).
 * UNESCO Chair in Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2004)
 * UNESCO Chair in Communication at the Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogota, Colombia (2004)

Since 1981, Reguillo has been a professor in the Sociocultural Studies Department at ITESO University and the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education. She has also served as the coordinator of its formal research program in sociocultural studies since 2001. Reguillo is a permanent member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and she holds a level III rank in the National Researchers System of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico.

Reguillo has received recognition for her work, including the 1995 Best Research in Social Anthropology Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Award from the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, the 1996 Ibero-American Award for Municipal and Regional Investigation from the Ibero-American Capital Cities Union in Spain, and the 2010 Advertising and Women Award for Communication Trajectory from the Municipal Institute of Women and the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination. She has also been appointed as an advisory member for Latin America for the Social Science Research Council in the USA.

Reguillo has taught courses and seminars at universities in Anglo and Latin America, as well as in Spain, including the University of Colima (Mexico), Autonomous University of Queretaro (Mexico), Pontifical Bolivarian University (Colombia), University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico), Central American University (El Salvador), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), ORT University of Montevideo (Uruguay), National University of Colombia (Colombia), Simón Bolívar Andean University (Bolivia), and many others.