Born: 1974 (circa), Romania
Died: NA
Country most active: Mexico
Also known as: Anca Miruna Achim
The following is republished with kind permission from the Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México.
[Anca] Miruna Achim es investigadora y académica mexicana. Licenciada en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Harvard hu y Doctora en Historia de la Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad de Yale yu. Profesora e investigadora en el Departamento de Humanidades de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa uam-c.
Sus intereses académicos abarcan la historia de la ciencia en México, siglos xvi-xix, particularmente la historia de la medicina y de la construcción, representación y transmisión de conocimientos en el mundo transatlántico de ese periodo.
Actualmente, está trabajando sobre la construcción del Museo Nacional de México durante la primera parte del siglo xix.
[Anca] Miruna Achim is a Mexican researcher and academic. She holds a BA in Art History from Harvard University (HU) and a PhD in the History of Latin American Literature from Yale University (YU). She is a professor and researcher in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa (UAM-C).
Her academic interests cover the history of science in Mexico, 16th – 19th centuries, particularly the history of medicine and the construction, representation and transmission of knowledge in the transatlantic world of that period.
Currently, she is working on the construction of the National Museum of Mexico during the first part of the 19th century.