University of Guadalajara

The University of Guadalajara founded in 1792, is an institution with an educational tradition of more than two hundred years. It is a public, secular, and autonomous institution, with social commitment and international vocation; that meets the educational needs at the level of training in higher education, and postgraduate education. It promotes scientific research, as well as linkage and extension to influence the sustainable and inclusive development of society. Currently, the University works under a network model that extends throughout the federal state of Jalisco and is the most important university in the center west of Mexico.

The University of Guadalajara is an institution committed to academic excellence, social solidarity, and humanistic thought, aspects that contribute to the sustainable development of Jalisco and Mexico, through education, innovation, science, culture, and technology. In 1994, the State and Society Studies-Division at the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CUCSH) recommended the formation of a European Studies Program as an institutional space that would mature into the Center for European Studies (CEE) in 2006 as part of the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies (DEILA). Since then, the CEE has been consolidating, the lines of research, with the following objectives:

To promote research on Europe from the social, cultural, political and economic perspective.
To define the necessary policies for the development of research, teaching and dissemination.
To integrate research groups and specialized scholars in order to carry out research, and dissemination activities related to European Studies.
To contribute to the consolidation of international research networks with Europe (particularly member states of the European Union) and Latin America through academic activities and collaboration.

Team members

Ulrike Capdepón

Ulrike Capdepón holds a DAAD-Longterm Visiting Professorship and is the coordinator of the Center for European Studies (CEE) at CUCSH, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, where she teaches Political Science, International Relations and Sociology. She has been a Marie Curie-Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Human Science and Humanities (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Konstanz. Her research interests include peace and conflict studies, human rights, memory studies, and transitional justice in Latin America and Europe. She has published widely about the politics of the past, political violence, as well as memory in urban space, especially in Latin America’s Southern Cone and Spain.

Jaime Preciado

Professor-Researcher at the University of Guadalajara, in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies (DEILA), he has been a member of the National System of Researchers since 1992, currently SNI level III. Co-founder of the Center for Latin American Studies (1988), then Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (1991). Director of the Division of State and Society Studies (1994-1999). Head of the Department of Political Studies (2010-2016). Coordinator of the PhD in Political Science at the University Center for Social Sciences and Humanities (2013-2021). His lines of research and publication deal with Geopolitics of Globalization, integration and Democracy in the Americas, regional political geography, and electoral processes. Currently, is he Co-Director of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS) at the University of Guadalajara.

Jorge Alberto Quevedo Flores

Research Professor of the Department of International Studies and collaborator of the Center for European Studies of the University Center of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Guadalajara. PhD in European Studies from the Ortega y Gasset University Institute, of the Complutense University of Madrid, PhD in International Relations from the Department of Public International Law and International Relations, of the Complutense University of Madrid, Master in European Union Studies from the University of Salamanca. He was Director of International Relations of the Ministry of Education of the state of Jalisco 2013-2018. Specialization: International Relations, European Studies and Regional Integration.