Alternate member of the CLACSO CD for Region 5. Bolivia, Brazil and Peru

Doctor in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, France, 2003) where he defended a thesis on “Clientélisme, Néo-Libéralisme et Résistance Sociale au Mexique: 1982-2000” (“Clientelism, Neoliberalism and Social Resistance in Mexico: 1982-2000) directed by Michaël Löwy.
Since 2013 he has been a competitive professor at the Latin American Institute of Economy, Society and Politics (UNILA, Brazil). There he works, fundamentally, in the Public Administration and Public Policies course and in the postgraduate course of Contemporary Integration of Latin America (ICAL). He also coordinates the CNPq Research Group on 'Critical Geopolitics, Sociology of Development and Borders'.
Outside of UNILA, he is a member of the CLACSO Working Groups on 'Geopolitics, Regional Integration and the World System' and 'State, Development and Territorial Inequalities'. Since 2024, he has been the Latin American editor of the Journal of Borderlands Studies. Between 2021 and 2024, he was a member of the Executive Board of the Association for Borderlands Studies. He was a visiting researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies at UNAM (Mexico) on three separate occasions (1998-2001; 2004-2005; and 2007-2009), where he worked closely with Eduardo Ruiz Contardo. He has been a member of the CLACSO Steering Committee since 2025, representing the Brazilian Member Centers.
Among his most recent works are “Mapeando ideias: chaves para uma genealogia do pensamento geopolítico latino-americano” (2025); “Brazil in a Multipolar World” (edited with Tatiana SL Garcia, 2024); “Sociologia do Bolsonarismo: genealogia de uma reação brasileira” (2023); “Releer a Bowman, repensar la Geopolítica” (2020); and “Una revisión geopolítica de la Triple Frontera del Paraná” (2017). Many of his texts can be found on the ResearchGate platform by searching his name.
He is a relatively frequent contributor as an analyst to media outlets such as El País and Latinoamérica 21. He has also published in international newspapers like La Jornada, El Universal, and Il Fatto Quotidiano, as well as in various Latin American media outlets, primarily radio. He is active on social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Bluesky (@jagullo.bsky.social).