Department
Department of History
Phone
+1 (210) 9997628
Email Address
edeantun@trinity.edu
Room
314

I hold a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México. As a historian of Latin American cities, I am broadly interested in the social, political, and cultural forces that shaped urbanization in the twentieth century. I am currently writing a book that interrogates Mexico City’s 20th century urban transformation and places it within a global flow of ideas about cities and urbanization. At Trinity, I teach classes on Latin American History, Mexican History, and Urban History, in Latin America and the world.

Education

  • Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago
  • B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México

Selected Publications

  • The Politics of Informality: Housing and Planning in Mexico City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2026.
  • “Four Regimes of Informality: Legal Practices and Revolutionary Politics in 20th-Century Mexico City.” In Informal Cities: History, Power, and Precarity in Latin Europe, Latin America, and Colonial North Africa, edited by Brodwyn Fischer and Charlotte Vorms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025 (co-authored with Antonio Azuela).
  • “The ‘Latin American City’? The Rise and Fall of a Figment of the Social Imagination.” Latin American Research Review 60, no. 3 (2025): 733-743.
  • “Mexico City as an Urban Laboratory: Oscar Lewis, the ‘Culture of Poverty,’ and the Transnational History of the Slum.” Journal of Urban History 45, no. 4 (2019): 813-30.

Subjects Taught

  • City & Citizenship in Latin American History
  • Latin American Cultural Tradition
  • Modern Mexico
  • American Migrant Cities
  • Urban History Seminar

Teaching and Expertise

  • Mexican History
  • Latin American History
  • Urban History

Honors & Awards

  • Award for Distinguished Early Career Faculty Teaching & Research (Trinity University)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Institute (UCSD)
  • Predoctoral Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (UCSD)
  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
  • Teixidor Fellowship (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)