Luis Rubén González Márquez recently earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Merced. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of El Salvador (UES),  and a M.A. in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador). For his graduate studies in the US, Luis Rubén was awarded a Fulbright-Laspau scholarship for the 2019-2021 period. He was also a recipient of the Dissertation Improvement Award Grant from the American Sociological Association-National Science Foundation (ASA-DDRIG) and the Dissertation Fellowship from the University of California’s Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), both in 2023-2024. 

Luis Ruben’s research agenda focuses on environmental and labor mobilization in marginalized territories. His current book project examines the political outcomes of opposition campaigns against renewable energy megaprojects in the Central American isthmus. This project is based on a comparative-historical study of conflicts related to hydropower in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras between 1972 and 2019.

Additionally, Luis Rubén has collaborated in publications about anti-austerity mobilization and protest music in Central America, and climate action and environmental civic engagement in California’s San Joaquin Valley. He has also conducted research on labor and popular mobilization in El Salvador’s contemporary history. These studies have featured in Sociology of Development, Sociology Compass, Latin American Perspectives, Climate Action npj, and Anuario de Historia Regional y de las Fronteras.