Jorge Martínez Galván holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México. She has master's and bachelor's degrees in the same discipline from the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, respectively. Her research topics focus on ethnicity and kinship relations in the Holy Week dance groups in a village of the High Sierra Tarahumara in the state of Chihuahua. In the last eleven years she has dedicated her research to the dances and devotional practices, as well as their transformation during and after the pandemic of covid-19, in different villages of the Teotihuacan and Texcoco valley regions, in the eastern part of the State of Mexico. He has published several book chapters and articles on these topics in national and international journals. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5458-0715