Ana María León is an architect, a teacher, and a historian. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Her research traces transnational networks of interdisciplinary exchange between Europe and the Americas, particularly as they deal with issues of participation, pedagogy, migration, and the politics of public space. She has an architecture diploma from the Universidad Católica in Guayaquil, a Master in Architecture from Georgia Tech, a Master in Design Studies with distinction from the Harvard GSD, and a PhD in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture from MIT. She has taught architecture studios and seminars at Georgia Tech, the GSD Career Discovery program, the Veneto Experience, and UEES, and worked in architecture firms in Atlanta, New York, and Guayaquil. Her scholarly research has been published in Log, thresholds, PLOT, and the Journal of Architectural Education. She is editor of thresholds 41: REVOLUTION! and is currently working on a manuscript titled Surrealism for the Masses: Housing the Unconscious from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, 1938-1960.