​Erik Damián Reyes Morales is a Mexican scholar specializing in history, diplomacy and geopolitics.

 

He holds a BA in International Relations from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Cádiz, and an MA and PhD in History from UNAM’s Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and the Institute of Historical Research.​

 

His doctoral dissertation, The Codex Colhuacan: A Reinterpretation of the History of the Mexico-Tenochtitlan Nobility through Human Geography, Geopolitics, and Geopolitical Thought, offers a reconstruction of the historical codex of the Colhua nobility of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.​

 

Since 2007, he has served as a lecturer at UNAM’s Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, where he is currently a postdoctoral fellow. He is also a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (Level I).

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He has taught undergraduate courses in Philosophy of History, Political Science, History of Political and Social Thought, Introduction to International Relations, International Cooperation, and Contemporary International Issues. He currently teaches Twentieth-Century Mexican and World History and Public Organization Analysis. At the graduate level, he teaches Mexican Foreign Policy and National Security in the Master’s Program in Geopolitics at the Center for Higher Naval Studies (Mexican Navy).​

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His research focuses on indigenous nobility, classical diplomacy and geopolitics (particularly in ancient Mexico), the foreign policy of the Mexican Revolution, the idea of revolution in twentieth-century Mexico and Latin America, and the political thought of Hannah Arendt within the framework of historical sociology.