José Miguel Vidal Kunstmann is currently an Assistant Professor in the Program for Interdisciplinary Studies of Religion (PIER) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUCC), with joint affiliation to the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of History, Geography, and Political Science. He also serves as a Researcher at the Millennium Nucleus on the Impacts of China in Latin America and the Caribbean (ICLAC). His primary research areas include intellectual history, cultural history, and global history, with a particular focus on historical interactions between China and Latin America.