Rafael Hurtado is a Tenured Research Professor (Level B) at the Institute of Humanities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana), Guadalajara Campus. He is a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers. He completed his master’s and doctoral studies at the University of Navarra in Spain. He is an active member of the academic committee of the International Observatory on the Family (UNAM-Mexico) and of the journal *The Natural Family* (IOF-USA).
He is a visiting professor at: Universidad Panamericana (Aguascalientes Campus); CIHE-Universidad del Istmo (Guatemala); and ICF-Universidad Austral (Argentina).
In recent years, he has directed the Work, Family, and Society Research Group (GIFTS), which focuses on the following four thematic areas: Family and Home, Family and Society, Family and the Media, and Family and Business. In addition, he is the author of more than 40 scholarly publications, including the books *Fatherhood in the Thought of Karol Wojtyla* (Eunsa, 2021, 2nd ed.) and *Oikía and Polis: The Family, Root and Soul of Every Society* (Eunsa, 2023). His primary line of research addresses the concepts of fatherhood and motherhood from the perspective of domestic family life.
Research Areas
- Parenting
- Motherhood
- Family Life at Home