Professor Aquiles Chihu Amparan holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences, (CIDHEM) Centro de Investigación y Docencia en Humanidades del Estado de Morelos. He has a Master's Degree in Anthropological Sciences (Social Anthropology), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus and in Political Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Facultad de Ciencia Políticas y Sociales and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Anthropology, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). Student of Umberto Cerroni at the University of Rome, Italy.

Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa Campus. Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) level II. Director of the Political Communication Laboratory (UAM Iztapalapa Campus).

Outstanding publications: Editorial advisor (Advisory editor) of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (2013), in which he collaborated as Latin America coordinator and wrote the entry "Earth's Color March". Author of single-authored books: El framing de la comunicación política. Las mañaneras 2018-2022 (2024); Frames de la comunicación política. Spots de las campañas presidenciales 2000-2018 (2022); La imagen de los candidatos presidenciales (México, 2012) (2016); La imagen de los partidos políticos en México (2014); El framing de la prensa (2010); El framing del spot político (2010); El framing de los debates presidenciales en México (1994-2006) (2008); and Gramsci y un nuevo paradigma en la concepción de la política (1991).

Coordinator of: The analysis of frames in the sociology of social movements (2006) and; Sociology of Identity (2002).

Second place in the First National Contest of Stories about Zapatismo, National Institute of Anthropology and History and Government of the State of Morelos, Mexico, 1979.

Founder of the sociology of culture area at UAM Iztapalapa Campus.