Juan O'Gorman, Daniel COSío Villegas, and the Mexican Historical Profession: An Interview with Josefina Zomida Vázquez

• Published in: The Americas (Washington. 1944) 2010-10, Vol.67 (2), p.253-268
• Main Author: Beezley, William H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0003-1615; 1533-6247
• DOI: 10.1017/S0003161500005460

Professor Josefina Zoraida Vázquez has made an indelible imprint on the discipline of the history of Mexico. Her publications have provided an analysis of the Mexican experience through such diverse themes as the U.S. invasion (1846-1848), the evolution of national education programs, and the struggles to establish federalism and republicanism in the first decades of independence. She has written official textbooks used by all Mexican school children, appeared on numerous television programs, taught dozens of doctoral students, and assisted many scholars in both Mexico and the United States. She has been an active member of the historical profession; she organized the Congress of Mexican Historians from Mexico, the United States, and Canada in Patzcuaro in 1977 and served as the President of the same organization in Monterrey in 2003.