Erik Damián is a Mexican scholar. He has a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a master's degree in Hispanic Studies from Cádiz University, and a master's degree and a PhD in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and the Institute of Historical Research of UNAM.

 

His PhD dissertation, The Codex Colhuacan. A review of the History of Mexico-Tenochtitlan Nobility from Human Geography, Geopolitics and Geopolitical Thought, reconstructs the historical codex of Mexico-Tenochtitlan colhua nobility.

 

Since 2007, he has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, where he is currently doing a postdoctoral fellowship. He is part of the National System of Researchers as a National Researcher Level I. He has taught undergraduate courses in Philosophy of History, Political Science, History of Political and Social Thought, Introduction to International Relations, International Cooperation and a Seminar of Contemporary International Topics. Nowadays, he teaches Universal and Mexican History of the 20th Century and Analysis of Public Organizations. At the graduate level, he teaches Foreign Policy and National Security of Mexico in the Master's Degree in Geopolitics at the Higher Naval Studies Center of the Mexican Navy.

 

His main research interests include the foreign policy of the Mexican Revolution, the political thought of Hannah Arendt within the framework of historical sociology, the indigenous nobility, and the application of analytical tools from the Social Sciences to the ancient world, particularly Geopolitics and Diplomacy in pre-Hispanic Mexico.