Virginia Guedea Rincón Gallardo (born March 10, 1942) is a Mexican historian, writer, translator, researcher, and academic. She has specialized in the political history of the viceregal period of

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and the Mexican War of Independence.

Studies

Guedea's first studies took place at the Instituto Mexicano Regina. In 1962, she completed a licentiate in history at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She entered the School of Philosophy and Letters of the

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(UNAM) where she studied for a master's degree and a doctorate through the Postgraduate Studies Division from 1963 to 1969, as a disciple of Edmundo O'Gorman. In 1990 completed a residency at the Study and Conference Center of the

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, Italy.

Teaching and academics

Guedea has taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana, is a professor at the School of History of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, and tutor of the PhD program in history and architecture at UNAM. She has been a researcher at the and the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores since 1987. She has participated in the 's level IV stimulus program. Among her research projects are ''Los afanes autonomistas y las juntas de gobierno, 1808-1821'', ''La historia en las conmemoraciones de 1960 y 1985'', ''El golpe de Estado de 1808'', and ''La otra historia''. She was academic secretary of the UNAM Institute of Historical Research from 1979 to 1989, and director from 1997 to 2005. Since 1997 she has been a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She became a member of the

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on March 1, 2005, where she occupies chair 24. On February 17, 2006 she read her entry speech "La otra historia o de cómo los defensores de la condición colonial recuperaron los pasados de la Nueva España", which was answered by . Guedea has been a corresponding member of the

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since December 22, 2006. She has received recognition from the editorial board of the University of California for her work as an editor of the journal ''Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos'' in 1999, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz recognition from UNAM in 2006.

Published works

Virginia Guedea has published several research articles, prologues, introductions, chapters, and history books, including: * "Alzamientos y motines" in ''Historia de México'' from Salvat (1974) * ''José María Morelos y Pavón. Cronología'' (1981) * "La organización militar" in ''El gobierno provincial en la Nueva España 1570-1787'' by Woodrow Borah (1985) * "José Nemesio Vázquez, un correo insurgente" in ''De la historia. Homenaje a '' from the UNAM Institute of Historical Research (1985) * "Las sociedades secretas durante el movimiento de independencia" in ''The Independence of Mexico and the Creation of the New Nation'' by (1989) * "En torno a la Independencia y la Revolución" in ''The Revolutionary Process in Mexico: Essays on Political and Social Change 1880-1940'' by Jaime Rodríguez Ordóñez (1990) * ''Las gacetas de México y la medicina'' (1991) * ''En busca de un gobierno alterno: los Guadalupes de México'' (1992) * ''La insurgencia en el Departamento del Norte: los Llanos de Apan y la Sierra de Puebla, 1810–1816'' (1996) * "How Relations Between Mexico and the United States Began", co-author with Jaime Rodríguez Ordóñez in ''Myths, Misdeeds and Misunderstandings The Roots of Conflict in U.S.-Mexican Relations'' by Kathryn Vincent (1997) * "La crisis imperial española" in ''Gran historia de México ilustrada'' by Josefina Zoraida Vázquez (2001) * ''Memorias de la Revolución mexicana'', translation of the work by William Davis Robinson (2003) * "La Nueva España" in ''1808 La eclosión juntera en el mundo hispano'' Manuel Chust (2007)

References

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