Borderlands

This workshop held on Friday March 14, 2025 seeks to bring together advanced graduate students in the field of the Spanish Borderlands to bolster intellectual exchange and create community among graduate students and interested faculty working on similar or related topics. Successful workshop presentation proposals should highlight new and emerging research on the Spanish Borderlands and focus on some aspect of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, or related regions from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Most travel and accommodations needs will be provided to attend the all-day workshop at the Huntington Library in California. Participants agree to submit a 25 to 35-page, footnoted paper of ongoing dissertation research (not previously published or already submitted work) by February 28, 2025, and attend the all-day workshop on Friday March 14, 2025.

For full consideration please submit a proposal, bibliography, and CV by November 1, 2024 to emsi@dornsife.usc.edu. Paper proposals should be no more than 300 words and include a brief (not more than two-pages) bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Please put all materials in a single pdf/word document.  The organizers, Steve Hackel and Alejandra Dubcovsky, will respond by December 20, 2024. Email any questions to steven.hackel@ucr.edu or alejandra.dubcovsky@ucr.edu.

Additional support offered by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, UC Riverside, and The Huntington Library.