Dr. González-Faraco's principal areas of research include: the Anthropology of Education, the Cultural History of Education, Intercultural Education, Education and Social Exclusion, HIV/AIDS among Youth, Social Change and Cultural Transmission, the Anthropology of Protected Landscapes, Environmental Education, and the Anthropology of Religion.
He is a specialist in cultural studies of education from a fundamentally anthropological perspective.
Dr. González-Faraco has participated in numerous research projects. The most recent include, among others, the following:
- "Cultural Keys to the Expansion of HIV/AIDS among Youth in Spain and the United States: a Transcultural Investigation," undertaken with the Department of Anthropology of the University of Alabama (2015), thanks to a Salvador de Madariaga grant awarded by the Ministry of Education of Spain.
- "The Social and Educational Exclusion of Youth with AIDS" (National Research Project, supported by The Spanish Government, 2010-2014);
- "DIVERSE: Diversity as a Viable Improvement Enrichment Resource for Society and Economy" (supported by the European Commission, 2014-2015).
- "Social Exclusion and the Education of Children and Youth with HIV/AIDS."
