She is a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (of which she was director from 2003 until 2011) and Mexican Academy of Sciences, as well as a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow.
[1] She was educated at the School of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, where she got her BA (1969), MA (1978), and PhD (1986) in History.
[5] As an academic, she has published several books and articles on the history of New Spain, including El crédito eclesiástico en la Nueva España, siglo XVIII (1994) and Orígenes del culto a nuestra señora de Guadalupe, 1521-1688 (2020).
[7] In 1999, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the social and economic function of church property in 18th-century New Spain".
[3] In 1992, she was elected a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia (AMH),[3] where she holds the 26th seat.