Mara Viveros Vigoya received her PhD in Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS). She is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology and the School of Gender Studies at the National University where she has taught and conducted research since 1998. She is also the Co-director of Research Group "Interdisciplinary Group for Gender Studies". She has participated as a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton (NJ) and has been invited, at the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL) and the EHESS of Paris, the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Guadalajara and UAM-Xochimilco (Mexico). Her research interests include issues related to the relationship between social differences and inequalities, and intersections of gender, sexuality, class, race and ethnicity in the social dynamics of Latin American societies.