José Carlos Lozano Rendón
José-Carlos Lozano-Rendón is a researcher in the area of Latin American media studies and in the social history of cinema who has done extensive empirical research on international and political communication based on critical theoretical approaches such as political economy and cultural studies. He is the author of one of the most popular and influential textbooks in Latin American communication schools: "Mass communication theories and research", published by Pearson since 1996. Having born and grown up in the Texas-Mexican border has also motivated him to work on issues related to media, culture and  identity in this region. Lozano-Rendón is a professor and researcher at Texas A&M International University, in Laredo, Texas (United States) since 2012, and Research Fellow at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León, Mexico since 2020. He was Professor of Communication from 1992 to 2012 and Research Fellow from 2012 to 2020 at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey. Since 1993 he has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico, being appointed National Researcher Level 3 for the period 2018 to 2028. He was admitted as  a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2007. He has a Ph.D. in International Communication from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master's in Mass Communication from the University of Leicester, and a BA in Social Communication from the Universidad Regiomontana. Publications Research projects Lozano Rendón has published more than fifty articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and multiple chapters in edited books, both in English and in Spanish. Since 2012 he has acted as Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the International Project "Screen Culture: Exhibition, Programming and Cinemagoing in Latin America and Spain" together  with Belgian researchers Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University) and Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp). Teams of researchers participate in this network in seven Mexican cities (Mexico City, León, Monterrey, Saltillo, Tampico, Torreón, Veracruz), a city on the United States border with Mexico (Laredo, Texas), two Colombian cities (Cartagena and Cali), a Cuban city (Santiago) and a Spanish one (Barcelona). Service in Professional Associations Lozano Rendón has been member of the Executive Committees of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers (ALAIC), the National Council for Teaching and Research in Communication Sciences (CONEICC), and the Latin American Federation of Social Communication Faculties  (FELAFACS). In 1999 he obtained the Televisa Chair and in 2003 an Internal Research Chair of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, which financed his research efforts until 2012. See also. List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty