Javier Garciadiego

Who is Javier Garciadiego?

Francisco Javier Garciadiego Dantán is a Mexican historian specialized in the Mexican Revolution who currently serves as president of El Colegio de México. He is a former director-general of the National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolutions, has authored several books and holds the 12th seat of the Mexican Academy of History, where he substituted the late Beatriz de la Fuente.

Garciadiego graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He received a doctorate degree in History at El Colegio de México 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.

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. On 25 March 2009 he was awarded the Great Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Government of Spain.