Abraham Trejo Terreros holds a Ph.D. in History from El Colegio de México. His work examines how expert knowledge—disseminated through global and Pan-American conferences—shaped migration policymaking in Mexico during the twentieth century. His research lies at the intersection of global migration history, state formation, and the transnational circulation of knowledge, with a particular focus on public health in Latin America and the scientific foundations of population policies.

His forthcoming book, Los coyotes: gestión migratoria en México y contrabando de personas hacia los Estados Unidos, 1917–1954 (El Colegio de México), analyzes the emergence and transformation of human smuggling networks that developed in response to U.S. and Mexican migration policies. It traces the origins of these legislations in the medical, anthropological, and police discourses of the early twentieth century and examines their contrasting effects on the demographic flows across the international border—both among Mexican laborers heading to U.S. markets and foreign migrants transiting through Mexico. His publications include articles in Pacific Historical Review, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, and Historia Mexicana, among others.

Before joining the project “Medical Internationalism: Cuba and Eastern Europe, 1959–1999” at the School of Philosophical, Historical and Indigenous Studies (SOPHIS), he taught at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco, and served as Visiting Research Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas.

His academic career includes research stays at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Yale University, and the University of Texas at Austin. His research has received several distinctions, including honorable mentions from the Genaro Estrada Prize (Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs, 2021), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA, 2021), and the Association of Latin American Historians in Europe (AHILA, 2021), as well as the Charles A. Hale Fellowship for Mexican History (LASA, 2019).