Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz D. in Anthropology (McGill University, 1993). Full Professor-Researcher C, retired from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Member of SNII level II. He has conducted fieldwork with sheep and goat herders in Sardinia, Italy; with local doctors in the highlands of Chiapas; with cooks and chefs in Yucatan; and with cooks, cooks, chefs and restaurant owners in Seville, Spain. He is the author of Globalization, knowledge and power: local physicians and their struggles for recognition in Chiapas (México: uady/Plaza y Valdés, 2002) and Foodscapes, Foodfields and Identities in Yucatán (Oxford: Berghahn, 2012) and editor of. The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste and Identity (London: Bloomsbury, 2021). He was president of The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2011-2014), British Council Fellow in Goldsmiths College, London (1995) and Fellow of The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (2006-2007).




