IHS Book Roundtable: What Belongs in Mexico’s National Museum? Two Centuries of Object Collecting, Display, and Dispersal

Institute for Historical Studies – Tuesday February 22, 2022

A Roundtable Inspired by
Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections
(University of Arizona Press, 2021)

Featured Discussants:

Dr. Miruna Achim, Co-Editor
Associate Professor of Humanities
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa (Mexico City)

Dr. Susan Deans-Smith, Co-Editor
Associate Professor of History, and
Faculty Affiliate Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Stefanie Gänger
Professor of Modern History
University of Heidelberg  (Germany)

Dr. Natalia Majluf
Independent Art Historian
Lima (Peru)

Dr. Joanne Pillsbury
Andrall E. Pearson Curator, Arts of the Ancient Americas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dr. Sandra Rozental, Co-Editor
Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Universidad Autónoma Meropolitana- Cuajimalpa (Mexico City)

Moderated by:

Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History and
Director, Institute of Historical Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

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