Rene Peralta is the Herb Green Teaching Fellow at The University of Oklahoma, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture.

Rene co-edited with Tito Alegría and Roger Lewis the commemorative edition of A Temporary Paradise: A look at the special landscape of the San Diego Region, and prepared initially by Kevin Lynch and Donald Appleyard in 1974. COLEF, Tijuana 2018. Also co-authored with Fiamma Montezemolo and Heriberto Yepez the book Here is Tijuana. Black Dog Publishing, London 2006.