Marcel Anduiza Pimentel

Marcel Sebastián Anduiza Pimentel is a writer, historian, and foreign affairs analyst. Currently, he serves as a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School, working in the Management Unit and Business History Initiative, and doing research on the history of emerging markets and the evolution of firms in the Global South. He is also a Professorial Lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Department of History, George Washington University, and a 2026 non-resident fellow in US foreign policy and hemispheric affairs at the Institute for Global Affairs-Eurasia Group.

Anduiza Pimentel works at the intersection of academia and public scholarship with practitioner experience in strategy, international relations, and policymaking. His three areas of research specialization are: 1) History of Mexico and Latin America in the Asia-Pacific world, modern and colonial periods. 2) U.S.-Mexico relations, Latin American studies, Inter-American relations, strategy and geopolitics. 3) Studies of cities, mobilities, and the international economy across the Pacific Basin. He is working on a forthcoming book entitled Acapulco: A History of the American Pacific (University of California Press, 2027), along with a second book on the history of US-Mexico relations and Mexico’s grand strategy (currently under representation with literary agency Aevitas Creative Management), and on the Historia mínima del Pacífico mexicano, siglos XV-XXI for the collection "Historia mínima" of the Colegio de México.

Anduiza Pimentel holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago, a Master’s degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Modern History and Politics from the University of Oxford. His research has been supported by Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has been a fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego, 2017-2018; and a Visiting Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Históricos, Colegio de México, 2019-2020.