Charlynne Curiel holds a bachelor's degree in history from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. She completed her master's studies in social anthropology at ciesas-Occidente and obtained her doctorate at the Rural Development Sociology Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her current research interests are in the field of anthropology of unconventional food, women's relationships with kitchens and food in Oaxaca and the production of food heritage. She teaches in the BA in Social Anthropology and MA in Sociology at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas of the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca (iiis-uabjo).