History graduate of the UNAM Faculty of Philosophy and Letters with an MA in Art Studies from the Ibero-American University. Since 2005 he has directed the National History Museum, Chapultepec Castle, which he had previously directed from 1990-92. He was a Research Fellow of the Historical Studies Department of the National Institute of Anthropology and History from 1995 to 2002. He has lectured in Pre-Hispanic Art at the Ibero-American University, on the Mexican Revolution at the National School of Anthropology and History and on World History at the UNAM Faculty of Political and Social Science. He is a member of the editorial board of Gaceta de Museos (INAH National Museums and Exhibitions Office); the Board of Editors ofRevista Historias, (INAH Historical Studies Department) and the editorial board of the journal Estudios de Historia Contemporánea (UNAM Institute of Historical Research). Books he has written and published include:
Emiliano Zapata. Antología, with Laura Espejel and Alicia Olivera, Mexico, INEHRM-INAH, 1988.
Códices y documentos sobre México, co-editor with Constanza Vega and Rodrigo Martínez, 2 v., Mexico, Conaculta-INAH, 1998.
Pinceles mexicanos. Tres mil años de pintura, Mexico, JHP, 1998.
Zapata en Morelos, with María Elena Noval, Fotografías de Adalberto Ríos Zsalay, Barcelona, Lunwerg Editores-Government of the State of Morelos 2006-2012,
El conocimiento de las lenguas de México, co-editor with Rodrigo Martínez, de la A a la Z, Mexico, INAH (in press).