​Erik Damián 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.​

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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, the History of Political and Social Thought, Introduction to International Relations, International Cooperation, and Contemporary International Issues. He currently teaches Modern and Contemporary 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 of the Mexican Navy (CESNAV).​

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His research focuses on the nobility of ancient Mexico, classical diplomacy and geopolitics, the political thought of Hannah Arendt from the perspective of historical sociology, the theory and practice of revolution in twentieth-century Mexico and Latin America, and the foreign policy of the Mexican Revolution.