Javier Garciadiego

Francisco Javier Garciadiego Dantán (born 5 September 1951) is a Mexican historian specialized in the Mexican Revolution who formerly served as president of El Colegio de México.[2] He is a former director-general of the National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolutions (INEHRM), has authored several books and holds the 12th seat of the Mexican Academy of History, where he substituted the late Beatriz de la Fuente.[3]

Javier Garciadiego
2018. In the Museum of Mexico City, the CDMX Secretary of Culture, Eduardo Vázquez Martín
Born	(1951-09-05) 5 September 1951[1]
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico, El Colegio de México and the University of Chicago
Occupation(s)	Academic and historian
Employer	El Colegio de México
Title	President
Term	2005-2010
Predecessor	Andrés Lira

Garciadiego graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He received a doctorate degree in History at El Colegio de México (1982) and completed a second one in History of Latin America at the University of Chicago, in the United States, where he was advised by Friedrich Katz.[4]

He joined El Colegio de México as a professor in 1991 and has worked as visiting scholar at St Anthony's College, University of Oxford; University of Chicago; Trinity College, Dublin; Complutense University of Madrid and University of Salamanca.[1] On 25 March 2009 he was awarded the Great Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Government of Spain.[5]