CHECA ARTASU, MARTIN MANUEL

PhD in Human Geography and BSc in Archaeology from the University of Barcelona. Master's in Business Administration from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Sociology at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa Unit, in Mexico City since 2010. He is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. From 2018 to 2021, he was a Mercator Fellow in the project Global Gothic: International Gothic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries at the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). Since 2016, he has been a researcher in the Italian Diaspora in Latin America project at the EdA International Research Center, Rome, Italy. He is the author of over one hundred articles and book chapters. He has authored 11 books, including the most recent: Neo-Gothic Architecture in Mexico. A geographical vision (Springer, 2025); El Palacio Postal de la Ciudad de México. Historia y patrimonio (Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2024); El neogótico en Jalisco. Guía básica para la apreciación del entorno edificado (Arquitónica Editorial, 2021), winner of the Francisco de la Maza Prize for Architectural Heritage Conservation, National Institute of Anthropology and History, 2022; and Adamo Boari (1863-1928). Arquitecto entre América y Europa (Aracne Editrice, 2021). He has coordinated or edited 12 books, including: El neogótico en la arquitectura americana. Historia, restauración, reinterpretaciones y reflexiones (Aracne Roma, 2016); Italianos en México. Arquitectos, ingenieros y artistas entre el siglo XIX y XX (Aracne Editrice, 2019); and Arquitectos y artistas en la diáspora italiana en Latinoamérica. Diplomacia cultural en acción (Aracne Editrice, 2021). His research lines include: Geography of heritage in Mexico; Landscape and its sociocultural construction in Mexico; the history of architecture in Mexico; and the relationships between art and geography.