Doctor in Social Sciences from El Colegio de Michoacán. she is a professor and researcher at the History Department of the Universidad de Guadalajara. She specializes in the history of the population and the analysis of local and provincial government institutions in Nueva Galicia. She has published Government, justice and institutions. The mayor of Santa María de los Lagos 1563-1750 (Universidad de Guadalajara, 2008); "Multi-ethnic families or miscegenation process? Ethnic quality and family in Santa María de los Lagos in the eighteenth century "in multi-ethnic families and miscegenation (Universidad de Guadalajara, 2014); and "Offices of the town hall and local society in Nueva Galicia. The Villa of Santa María de los Lagos, 1760-1797 "in town halls and society in the transition from the colonial era to the nineteenth century (CIESAS, 2014), among others.