Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001). She is a currently a Full-Time Researcher at the Department of Educational Research, CINVESTAV, Mexico. Dussel served as Director of the Education Area, Latin American School for the Social Sciences (Argentina), from 2001 to 2008. She has published 10 books, edited 4, and has written more than 180 chapters in books and articles published in refereed journals, in six languages.  In 2018 Dr. Inés Dussel received the Humboldt Research Award, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany), in recognition of her outstanding research trajectory.

Her research interests focus on the relationships among knowledge, school, and politics, in a historical and sociological approach. She is currently studying the intersections between schools and digital visual culture, and the history of visual technologies, particularly of children’s media.

Dussel has supervised 13 completed doctoral dissertations and 42 completed MA thesis in Argentinean, Mexican, Brazilian and French universities. Since 2011 Inés Dussel is a member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Visual Culture, and serves on the scientific board of several academic research journals (Gender and Education, Comparative Education, Paedagogica Historica, Visual Studies, Education Review, Educational Policy Analysis Archives,Bildungsgeschichte-International Journal for the Historiography of Education, among others). She has been appointed as Editor of the Research in Translation section of the journal International Studies in Sociology of Education(2018-2019). Currently she is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) and is acting as the society’s Secretary (2018-2020). She has been Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris 8 (France), where she worked with the CIRCEFT-ESCOL team. She has given keynote lectures at the German Congress for Educational Sciences (Berlin), the Comparative Education Society of Europe (Freiburg), the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (Melbourne), the Brazilian-Portuguese Congress on Curriculum (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), the UK History of Education Society (Worcester), the Spanish History of Education Society Conference (El Escorial), the Iberoamerican Congress on the History of Latin American Education (Montevideo), the Congress on Connected Classrooms (Florianopolis, Brazil), among others. Since 2017, Inés Dussel is a Fellow of the International Academy of Education, a leading research association with 60 fellows.