Israel Garcia Solares is an adjunct professor at the Facultad de Economica, UNAM. He was born and raised in Zacapan, Xochimilco and earned bacherlor’s and master’s degrees in economics at Facultad de Economia, UNAM and a master’s and PhD in history at El Colegio de Mexico. Solares is currently working on a research project on the global history of engineering alongside Ted Betty from the University of Notre Dame. Underground Leviathan is his first book.