Short CV

Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar born in Mexico City in 1984. He received his B.A. degree in Sociology –with honors– at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in México City 2003-2007, where his thesis, concerning racism in urban spaces, won the first place in the competition for research degree 2008. Subsequently he received his M.A in Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences campus México (FLACSO México), 2008-2010, where his dissertation about indigenous social movements and racism, was awarded as excellent. Currently he is PhD Student at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, at the program "Democracy, Knowledge, and Gender in a Transnational World" (IPP Transnational)”. Now, he is working on his dissertation entitled: Becoming German Muslim–Muslim German. On racism, hyphen’s politics and the German Islam Conference, which delves on issues of racism, migration, representation, biopower, governmentality and postcolonial theory. Furthermore, his research interests focus on issues of Racism, Postcolonial theory, Social Indigenous Movements and Identity.