Miguel Ángel Torres Hernández, M. A.
Doctoral Candidate

Contact:

Münster University
Department of History
Room 327 (Fürstenberghaus)
Domplatz 20-22
48143 Münster

Miguel Ángel Torres Hernández is a doctoral student whose thesis project is provisionally titled “Relations between scientific thought and naval power. The Mexican Navy and its Transnational Integration into Naval and Military Scientific Networks (1821-1914)”. It studies the paths of the integration of the nascent Mexican naval community into the European scientific and military community, particularly with its French, Spanish, and German counterparts. This relationship is addressed in two directions: in the flow from the scientific to the military (the tendency to transform the art of war into the science of war) and from the military to the scientific (transforming military members into scientific communities capable of conducting research activities and participating in the development and consolidation of their respective nation-states). Thus, the research aims to identify how this interaction between Mexican seafarers and and European shaped and was influenced by the configuration of a small community of Mexican sailors.

Curriculum Vitae

Scientific Education

Since 10/2025	Doctoral Student at Chair for Latin-American History. Modern and Contemporary History. University of Münster.
2021 - 2023	Master's degree in Philosophy of Science, History of Science field, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Thesis title: “Conformación e integración de marinos mexicanos como parte de la comunidad científica nacional e internacional (1900-1911). Redes científicas transnacionales de la Escuela Naval Militar y proyección internacional del Estado mexicano” (Formation and integration of Mexican Marines as part of the national and international scientific community (1900-1911). Transnational scientific networks of the Escuela Naval Militar and international projection of the Mexican State)
02/2019 - 10/2019	On-site Diploma “La ciencia en la historia de México” (Science in the History of Mexico), UNAM. Participant in the on-site Diploma, taught at Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación (Institute for Research on the University and Education)
2014 - 2018	Bachelor's degree in History, (UNAM). Thesis title: “Divergencia entre dos instituciones castrenses: Ejército y Marina mexicanos durante la rebelión de Félix Díaz en 1912” (Divergence between two military institutions: Mexican Army and Navy during the rebellion of Félix Díaz in 1912)

Professional Career

since 09/2024	Referee for the UNAM Digital Journal Pueblos y Fronteras Referee of the manuscript “El servicio militar en Chiapas. La leva y el sorteo fingido durante la última década del Porfiriato y la Revolución, 1900-1920” (Military Service in Chiapas. The Draft and the False Lottery During the Last Decade of the Porfiriato and the Revolution, 1900-1920)
2021	Recognition Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Francisco Javier Clavijero Prize for bachelor's theses in the areas of History and Ethnohistory by Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History), Mexico
06/2020 - 04/2021	Assistant chronicler Assistant chronicler for the “Chronicle of a Pandemic” project, dedicated to create an online historical archive about COVID-19 pandemics
02/2020 - 07/2021, 02/2018 - 07/2018	Research assistant on a PAPIIT Project Research assistant on the PAPIIT IA401518 project “Historia de las relaciones entre la prensa y las ciencias naturales, médicas y geográficas de México (1836-1940)” (History of the Relations between the Press and the Natural, Medical, and Geographical Sciences in Mexico (1836-1940)
Since 11/2019	Member of the Mexican Civil Association of Historians, Palabra de Clío
11/2018	Speaker and assistant at a Congreso Speaker and assistant at the IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudiantes de Historia (IX Latin American Congress of History Students), held in Maldonado, Uruguay, with the presentation “Tres momentos de la ciencia novohispana” (Three moments of New Spain science)
11/2017	Co-Exhibitor at a History Fair Co-exhibitor at the Segunda Feria de Historia (Second History Fair) at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán (Faculty of Superior Studies Acatlán), with the presentation of the comic “La Guerra según Walt Disney” (The War According to Walt Disney), prepared for the purpose of history divulgation
01/2017 - 06/2017	Assistant on a research project Community service performed at the Instituto de Geografía (Institute of Geography), UNAM, as an assistant on the project “Geografía cultural y paisaje de México” (Cultural Geography and Landscape of Mexico) code 2017-12/52-1982