Esteban Torres is Professor at the University of Córdoba (Argentina), where he holds the Chair in Theories and Processes of Social Change in the Sociology programme. He conducts his research at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and directs the Global Social Change programme at the Centre for Research and Studies on Culture and Society (CIECS).

He is a permanent fellow at the Institut für Sozialforschung at Goethe University Frankfurt, home of the Frankfurt School. Since 2024, he has also directed the Immanuel Wallerstein Free Chair (UNC-IfS-CLACSO-UBA) and, since 2025, has co-edited the Global Sociology series published by De Gruyter Brill with Göran Therborn. In 2026, he joined the Advisory Board of the Wallerstein Institute for World Futures at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris.

He has been a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His recent books include La derecha vasalla. La trama invisible del poder latinoamericano (2025), Alain Touraine en América Latina (2025), El cambio social: teoría, historia y política (2023), and Hacia una nueva sociología del capitalismo (2022).