Miriam Hernández Reyna

She is a Tomás y Valiente fellow at MIAS.

Miriam Hernández Reyna is a philosopher and historian. She holds a PhD in Contemporary History from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. She specializes in the history of memory, theory of history, and conceptual history. Her work addresses the reinterpretations of the colonial past as a matter of historical memory within the context of the Iberoamerican worlds. After working on the construction of a new memory of the colonial past in the recent history of Mexico, her research has addressed the diplomatic controversies between Spain and Mexico concerning the memory of the conquest and colonization. She has taught at prestigious universities such as Sorbonne- Université, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris Nanterre, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophical Research at UNAM, Mexico (2022–2024) and at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques of the Casa de Velázquez (2024–2026). She is also a member of the research project HISTEMAL “History of the Present Time, Memory and Emotions in Latin America, Spain and Portugal” (IHTP, CNRS/Casa de Velázquez) and of IBERCONCEPTOS (Ibero-American Network of Conceptual History).