Josefina Zoraida Vázquez

Professor Emeritus of El Colegio de México and a National Researcher of Excellence since 2003, according to the Mexican Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Nacional Researchers' System) obtained her doctorate in history from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, having studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and at the University of Harvard.

She has been based at El Colegio de México since 1960 and was a lecturer at the UNAM for over twenty years. She has also taught at universities such as the Iberoamericana and others in the United Status and Europe, including the University of Texas at Austin, Berkeley, Puerto Rico, Frankfurt and Florence.

She was awarded the Andrés Bello Prize of the Organization of American States in 1991 and the Mexican Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes in 1999, having been awarded grants from such eminent bodies as the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Fulbright foundations, together with awards from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, and other Silvio Zavala, Organization of American States and Farmer grants.

Her research has centred on the history of education and the political and diplomatic history of Mexico in the nineteenth century. Her books include: Nacionalismo y Educación en México; Historia de la Historiografía; México frente a Estados Unidos; La fundación del Estado Mexicano; Una Historia de México; México y el Mundo. Historia de sus relaciones exteriores, vol. I y II; La enseñanza de la Historia; La intervención norteamericana en México, 1846-1848; México al tiempo de su guerra con Estados Unidos; Tratados de México, 1821-1910; El Establecimiento del Federalismo en México, 1812-1827; El nacimiento de las naciones iberoamericana. She edited volume VII of the Historia de México published by Salvat, the Gran Historia de México published by Editorial Planeta, volume VI of the Historia General de América Latina published by UNESCO and La construcción de las naciones latinoamericanas, 1820-1870.

She has published over 150 articles in Mexican and international academic journals and 43 book chapters in edited volumes. Professor Vázquez has also edited and written text books for all levels, and in 2006, during the commemoration of the bicentenary of Benito Juárez's birth, published Juárez, el republicano.