Biography

Antonio Jimenez Luque

Antonio Jimenez Luque
Phone: (619) 260-4213
Office: MRH-275B

Associate Professor
Program Chair for Master's Programs in Leadership Studies

  • PhD, Gonzaga University (GU), Leadership Studies
  • MA, University of Barcelona (UB), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain, Latin American Studies
  • MA, University of Barcelona, Globalization, Development and Cooperation
  • MA, University of Barcelona, International Studies
  • BA, University of Barcelona, History

Dr. Antonio Jiménez-Luque’s work, broadly speaking, explores how cultural, social, and historical perspectives influence conceptualizations and practice of leadership understood as a relational process of mobilization, emancipation, and social change. At the intersection of critical theory and intercultural studies, his research topics are (1) organizational culture and change; (2) leadership and framing for sense/meaning-making; and (3) critical interculturality and global social justice.

From 2004-2013, Dr. Jiménez-Luque was the Coordinator for the International Cooperation for Development at the University of Barcelona Solidarity Foundation. He designed and implemented projects on topics related to human development, peacebuilding, human rights, and critical interculturality with local governments, universities, grassroots organizations, and social movements in Algeria, DR Congo, Vietnam, Colombia, and Bolivia, among other countries. In 2014, Dr. Jimenez-Luque moved to the United States where he worked at Gonzaga University for the Associate Vice-President for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion as Intercultural Research Associate, and taught a variety of classes including Leading Across Cultures, Democracy and Human Rights, and Latin American Politics. 

Scholarly Work

Books/Monographs

2022 Jimenez-Luque, A. Leadership, diversity, and social justice: Culture as a system for resistance and emancipation. San Diego, Cognella.

2013 Bondia, D., & Jimenez-Luque, T. The Colombian Enigma. Barcelona, Editorial Huygens.

2008 Jimenez-Luque, T. Medio ambiente, cambio climático y conflictos internacionales: La cuestión del agua [Environment, climatic change and international conflicts: The matter of water]. Mallorca, Inrevés Edicions.

Edited Books

2009 Jimenez-Luque, T., & Kabunda, M. (Eds.). La République Démocratique du Congo: Les droits humains, les conflits et la construction / destruction de l’État [Democratic Republic of Congo: Human rights, conflicts, and the construction/destruction of the State]. Mallorca, Inrevés Editions.

Articles in Professional Journals (Peer-reviewed)

2023 Jimenez-Luque, A., Chugani-Molina, S., & Martinez, R. Transforming organizational culture and enacting social justice in praxis through decolonization of cultural artifacts at a U.S. university. The Journal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership, 4(4), 8-30.

2021 Jimenez-Luque, A., & Burgess, M. Civic leadership, emotions, and social change: A decolonial ethnographic research of an American Indian nonprofit organization. Voluntary Sector Review, 13(1), 135-156.

2021 Jimenez-Luque, A. Reframing the past to legitimate the future: Building collective agency for social change through a process of decolonizing memory. Leadership, 17(5), 586–605.

2021 Jimenez-Luque, A. Decolonial leadership for cultural resistance and social change: Challenging the social order through the struggle of identity. Leadership, 17(2), 154-172.

2020 Jimenez-Luque, A. Exercising public leadership from below: An empirical research on a Native American health clinic. Journal of Leadership Studies. Spring Issue.

2018 Jimenez-Luque, T. Decolonizing leadership studies: Overcoming obstacles toward an intercultural dialogue between knowledges. Studies of Changing Societies Journal, Vol 1.

2017 Jimenez-Luque, T. Human Rights from its origins to the twenty-first century: A journey through empathy, love, the will to power, and the will to meaning. International Journal of Servant Leadership, Fall 2017. New York, NY: Suny Press.

Book Chapters

2024 Jimenez-Luque. A. Decolonial perspectives of activism and climate justice in Latin America: Resisting, re-centering, and redefining leadership from the margins. In Knights, D., Smolovic-Jones, O., Liu, H., Wilson, S. (Eds.). Routledge handbook of critical leadership. (pp. 187-199). Routledge.

2023 Jimenez-Luque, A., & Hubbard, L. Inclusive leadership for social justice: DEIB leadership trainings and organizations. In Barnes, J., Stevens, M., Ekelund, B. Z., & Perham-Lippman, K. (Eds.). Inclusive leadership: Equity and belonging in our communities. (pp. 87-96). Emerald Group Publishing.

2022 Alexander, G., Jimenez-Luque, A., & Karp, D. Pedagogy of transcendence: A framework for positive peace and restorative 5 justice in education. In Velez, G. & Gravrielides, T. (Eds.), Restorative justice: Promoting peace and wellbeing (pp. 107-128). Springer Nature. 

2022 Jimenez-Luque, A., & Penha-Vasconcelos, C. Addressing environmental challenges through intercultural dialogue. In Dhiman, S. K., Marques, J. F., Schmieder-Ramirez, J., & Malakyan, P. G. (Eds.), Handbook of global leadership and followership. Springer Nature.

2021 Jimenez-Luque, A. The need for an epistemological and cultural turn in leadership studies: From a Eurocentric and monocultural conceptualization towards a global and intercultural approach. In Mengel, T. (Ed.), Leadership for the future: Lessons from the past, current approaches, and future insights. Cambridge Scholars Publishers.

2021 Jimenez-Luque, A. Redefining leadership through ‘the commons’: Theory and praxis in the city of Barcelona. In Singh, D., Curran, K., & Thompson, R. J. (Eds.), Reimagining leadership on the commons: Shifting the paradigm for a more ethical, equitable, and just world. Emerald publishers.

2018 Jimenez-Luque, T. Global and intercultural leadership: Implementing a comprehensive and sustainable peace process in Colombia. In Campbell, A. (Ed.). Global leadership initiatives for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

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