Rosa Angélica Morales Sarabia received her doctorate in history from UNAM in 2006. Since 1999 she has worked with CEIICH-UNAM (Center of Interdisciplinary Investigations in the Sciences and Humanities), collaborating on projects related to the social, political, and cultural studies of Mexico City. In 2011 she obtained the appointment of Associate Researcher focusing on the history of science. Her current research projects encompass natural history, botanical explorations, and the medical culture of women spanning from the 16th to the 19th century. She has also participated in several national and international collective research projects on medicine in the 11th and 17th centuries in New Spain. A recent collaborative project focuses on the cultural construction of ignorance (agnotology) around medicinal plants in Mexico. Her publications are numerous. In addition to book chapters and journal articles, she published her book, La consolidación de la botánica mexicana. Un viaje por la obra de José Ramírez 1879-1904, in 2015. Her teaching experience includes courses on world history and Mexico's modern history taught through the school of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM. She has also taught classes and seminars on the history of women, the history of medicine, and botany.
Professor Morales Sarabia will be teaching SPAN 4520 Crucible of Nationhood: Mexico in the 19th Century and SPAN 8550 Modern Mexican History this upcoming spring.