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Associate Professor

Department of Communication

UC San Diego

9500  Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA 92093-0503 USA

September 2025

Academic Employment

2020-…                   Associate Professor. Dept. of Communication. University of California, San Diego

2013 -2020              Assistant Professor. Dept. of Communication. University of California, San Diego

2010-2013               European Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, New York University (USA) & Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), United Kingdom

2008-2010                Research Associate, Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research, The Open University, United Kingdom

2008                      Lecturer, Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, UNAM Mérida, México.

2004-2008               Supervisor, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Education

2008                        PhD Sociology. University of Cambridge (UK)

2003                         MA (Distinction) Culture and Social Theory. Department of Sociological Theory,   Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

2001                         BA (Summa Cum Laude). Sociology. Universidad Complutense de Madrid  (Spain)

2000                        Diploma (Distinction) Social Anthropology. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Kent At Canterbury (England)  

Distinctions and Awards

2021 Mary Douglas Book Prize for Still Life awarded by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association (NEW)

2021 Book prize for Still Life of the ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

2021 Honorary Mention in Robert K Merton Award, for Still Life awarded by the Science, Technology and Society section of the American Sociological Association. (NEW)

2013 Winner of BSA-Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence as the best paper of the year in Cultural Sociology.

2012 Finalist of the BSA-Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence as the best paper of the year in Cultural Sociology

2001 National Award for the 3rd Best Average Grades in Sociology in Spain. Ministry of Education (Spain).

2001 Honorific Distinction for Best Academic Grades in Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Fellowships  

2015 Faculty Career Development Program
2015 Faculty Fellowship Center for Humanities UC San Diego
2010-2013 Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, European Research Council

2006-2007 Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust (UK)

2003-2006 Doctoral Fellowship. Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge (UK)

2003-2006 Doctoral Fellowship. Cambridge European Trust (UK)

2004 Cambridge European Trust Honorific Fellow

2002-2003 Postgraduate Fellowship to study at the University of Berkeley (USA). Fundación Caja Madrid (Spain)

2001-2003 Doctoral Fellowship. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

Funded Research Projects (as investigator)

2025 UCSD Special Initiatives. Irreparability. Principal Investigator. ($10,000)

2015-2016 The UC Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design. University of California Multicampus Research Programs (as co-investigator) ($150,000)

2010-2013 “SOMEART: Sociological Dimensions of Media-Art Conservation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York”. European Research Council, Marie Curie Actions, Framework Program 7 (230,000€)

2010-2011 “Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Flexibility and Reconstruction”. Future of Cities Program, Oxford University (UK). (£56,000). (As co-investigator)