 As in other Latin American countries, the history of philosophy is a popular area of research, largely because most philosophy departments tend to teach the discipline from a historical rather than thematic or analytic perspective. The most popular periods of philosophy are ancient philosophy, modern philosophy, phenomenology, and German existentialism. Among the historians of philosophy today, we can mention: Laura Benitez (b. 1944), Alberto Constante (b. 1949), Antonio Zirión (b. 1950), Enrique Hülsz (1954–2019), Gustavo Leyva (b. 1959), Pedro Stepanenko (b. 1960), Efraín Lazos (b. 1962), Ernesto Priani (b. 1962), Ricardo Salles (b. 1965), Faviola Rivera (b. 1967), and Ángel Xolocotzi (b. 1969).