Erik Damián is a Mexican scholar. He holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a master's degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Cádiz, and both a master's degree and a 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, reconstructs the historical codex of the Colhua nobility of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

 

Since 2007, he has served as a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, where he is currently conducting postdoctoral research. He is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (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 on Contemporary International Issues. He currently teaches Twentieth-Century World and Mexican History and Public Organisation Analysis. At the graduate level, he teaches Foreign Policy and National Security of Mexico in the Master’s Program in Geopolitics at the Centre for Higher Naval Studies of the Mexican Navy.

 

His main research interests include indigenous nobility and the application of analytical tools from the social sciences to the ancient world—particularly geopolitics and diplomacy in pre-Hispanic Mexico—as well as the political thought of Hannah Arendt within the framework of historical sociology and the foreign policy of the Mexican Revolution.