Erika Pani, Doctor in history (El Colegio de México, 1998). She is interested in the political history of the 19th century. She has published To Mexicanize the Second Empire. The political imaginary of the imperialists (2001), To belong to the great Mexican family. Naturalization processes in the nineteenth century (2015), and Minimal History of the United States of America (2016). She coordinated, with Guillermo Palacios, The power and the blood. War, State, and Nation in the 1860s (2014).