Karine Tinat

El Colegio de México

Karine Tinat holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies and Information and Communication Sciences from the University of Bourgogne in France. She completed a post-doctorate in social anthropology at CIESAS-Mexico City in 2003 and 2004. She was a professor-researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies (CES) attached to the Interdisciplinary Program of Women’s Studies (PIEM) from 2007–2021. She is currently a research professor at the Center for Gender Studies (CEG). In 2015, she created the journal Estudios de Género of El Colegio de México and directed it until 2018. She is part of the National System of Researchers at level 2 and is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Since 2002, her anthropological and sociological research has explored gender issues and has focused on several topics such as the uses and customs of a fragment of Madrid’s youth, gender identities in eating disorders, sexualities in rural areas, and teenage pregnancy and its different facets, among others. Tinat is also a specialist and passionate about the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir.