2022-2023
March 17, 2023
New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
James Bland, University of Oklahoma
Mary Casey, University of California, Riverside
Julia Frankenbach, University of California, Berkeley
Ashford King, Princeton University
Annabel LeBrecque, University of California, Berkeley
Piper Milton, University of California, Santa Cruz
Christopher Thrasher, Penn State
2021-2022
Friday, March 11th, 2022
New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
Leila Blackbird, University of Chicago
“‘It Has Always Been Customary to Make Slaves of Savages’: The Problem of Indian Slavery in Spanish Louisiana Revisited, 1769-1803”
Timothy Seiter, Southern Methodist University
“Persistent Peoples: A History of the Karankawas of the Texas Gulf Coast”
Israel Leal Domiguez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Curanderismo in the Borderlands, from Contact to the 19th century”
Rachel L.Sanderson, University of South Florida
“Baptism and Legitimacy in La Florida”
William Angus McLeod, University of Pennsylvania
“Catholic Schooling in Spanish and Mexican Texas, 1718-1836”
Evan Daniel Suda, University of California, Riverside
“History Villa de Branciforte: The Malleable Frontier in Alta California”
Javier Etchegaray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ““En el desamparo de los Bosques y de las distancias”: The Social Ecology of the Chiloé Archipelago during the Eighteenth Century”
Jennifer Levin, University of Virginia
“Cautious Collaboration: Mobile’s Invitation into Spanish Trade, 1702-1718”
Huntington Library
2020–2021
Friday, September 18th, 2020
New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
Citlali Sosa, University of California, Los Angeles
“Californio Women and a Gendered Liberalism: The Catholic Church, Memory and Fear of Natives”
Elizabeth Rareshide, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Mind of a Missionary in Alta California: Investigating Fr. Gerónimo Boscan’s Perspective on Juaneño Culture”
Collin Rohrbaugh, Texas A&M University
“The Cactus and the Star: Mirabeau Lamar, New Mexico, and State Formation in the Republic of Texas”
Jessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University
“The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Law, and Empire: A Hemispheric Approach to Spanish Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century”
John Paniagua, Princeton University
“Roots and Routes of the Amerindian Antilles: Identifying Borderlands Indians in Colonial Cuba”
Online
2019–2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
Third Annual Graduate Student Workshop: New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
Elizabeth Rareshide
“The Mind of a Missionary in Alta California: Investigating Fr. Gerónimo Boscan’s Perspective on Juaneño Culture”
Jeremiah J. Sladeck
“Rubi, Gili, and the Temporialistas come to California, 1790-1794”
Daniel Velasquez
“The Louisiana Trading Nexus, 1770-1790”
Collin Rohrbaugh
“The Cactus and the Star: Mirabeau Lamar, New Mexico, and State Formation in the Republic of Texas”
John Paniagua
“Roots and Routes of the Amerindian Antilles: Identifying Borderlands Indians in Colonial Cuba”
Jessica Fletcher
“The Transatlatic Slave Trade, Law, and Empire: A Hemispheric Approach to Spanish Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century”
Philippe Halbert
“Keeping [and Making] Up Appearances in Spanish Louisiana”
Citlali Sosa
“Californio Women and a Gendered Liberalism: The Catholic Church, Memory and Fear of Natives”
2018-2019
Friday, March 15, 2019
New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
Hayley Bowman, University of Michigan
Tess Evans, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Leonardo Falcón, Florida International University
Juneisy Quintana Hawkins, New York University
Priscilla Martinez, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jennifer McCutchen, Texas Christian University
Nicholas Myers, Cornell University
Naomi Sussman, Yale University
Christina Villareal, University of Texas, Austin
Jeremy Mikecz, USC
Margaret Pearce, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine
Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
Christian A. Pappan, Kaw, Osage, Lakota Artist
Wendy Giddens Teeter, Fowler Museum, UCLA
Craig Torres, Tongva Cultural Educator/Artist
Votan Henriquez, Mayan, Naoa Artist
Desiree Renee Martinez, Tonga Archaeologist, Cogstone Resource Management
Pamela Peters
Steven Wernke, Vanderbilt
Jeffrey Erbig, University of California, Santa Cruz
Huntington Library
2017-2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
Scott Cave, Penn State University
Jason Herbert, University of Minnesota
Aubrey Lauersdorf, University of North Carolina
Julia Lewandoski, UC Berkeley
Alan Malfavón, UC Riverside
Hayley Negrin, New York University
Skyler Reidy, University of Southern California
Anna Toledano, Stanford University
Huntington Library
2016-2017
Friday, March 31, 2018
Andrés Reséndez, University of California, Davis
“The Greatest Slave Revolt of the Southwest”
Huntington Library
2014-2015
October 26, 2014
Toypurina
Steve Hackel, Professor of History, UC Riverside
Rebecca Kugel, Associate Professor of History, UC Riverside
James A. Sandos, Professor of History and Farquhar Professor of Southwest, University of Redlands
Jonathan Salisbury(Director and Playwright), and members of the cast
San Gabriel Mission Playhouse
May 1, 2015
Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia
“West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776”
Huntington Library
2013-2014
September 20 & 21, 2013
Junípero Serra: Context and Representation 1713 to 2013
John W.I. Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Gender and Power in the West Anatolian Borderlands during the Achaemenid Period”
Clara Bargellini, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and Pamela Huckins, independent scholar
“Junípero Serra’s Tastes and the Art and Architecture of the California Missions”
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz, Santa Clara University
“Junípero Serra’s Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias”
John Dagenais, University of California, Los Angeles
“Junípero Serra’s Mallorcan Class Notes on Ramon Llull”
José Refugio de la Torre Curiel, Universidad de Guadalajara/El Colegio de Jalisco
“Mission Government as a Franciscan Utopia in Northwestern New Spain, 1768-1794”
David Rex Galindo, Stephen F. Austin State University
“The Colegio de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando: A Prelude to the Missionary Program in Alta California”
Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside
“Contemporary Art and the Legacies of the California Missions”
Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside
“The Rock and the Crucifix: Junípero Serra, Then and Now”
Michael Komanecky, Farnsworth Art Museum
“Junípero Serra and the California Mission Myth”
Cynthia Lewis, Rio Hondo College
“Between Worlds: Junípero Serra and the Paintings of Jose de Paez”
Karen Melvin, Bates College
“Serra Among the Faithful: The Popular Mission”
Antoni Picazo Muntaner, Universitat des les Iles Balears
“Father Junípero’s Serra’s Education and Ideology”
Anna Nogar, University of New Mexico
“Junípero Serra’s Mission Muse: Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda and Her Writings”
Matt O’Hara, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Mexico City in the Time of Serra”
Josep Juan Vidal, Universitat de les Iles Balears
“The Geographical Setting where Father Junípero Serra was Formed: Mallorca during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century”
Huntington Library
2012-2013
December 1, 2012
Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Internal Borderlands and Fragmented Communities of Northern Mexico: San Ildefonso de Ostimuri”
Huntington Library
2011-2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Amy Turner Bushnell
“Climate, Habitat, and Food Security in the Indigenous Americas”
Huntington Library
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Julia Sarreal, ASU
“Continuities and Ruptures in Native Bodies of Governance: Cacicazgos and the Guarani Missions, 1735-1801”
Huntington Library
Friday, May 11, 2012
David Rex Galindo, SMU
“Who Do They Want To Save?: Franciscan Missionary Motivations in New Spain’s Northern Borderlands”
Huntington Library
2010-2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Al Hurtado, University of Oklahoma
“A Path Not Taken: Turner, Bolton, and the Borderland Frontier”
Huntington Library
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Brian Delay, University of California, Berkeley
“Blood Talk: People and Peoples in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland”
The Autry Museum
Friday, April 29, 2011
Guadalupe Curiel Defossé, Director of Mexico’s Biblioteca Nacional and Hemeroteca Nacional
“Mexico’s Biblioteca Nacional and Hemeroteca Nacional: Collections and Opportunities for Research”
Huntington Library
2010-2011
January 22, 2010
Aurora Gomez Galvarriato, Centro de Investigación y Dorencia Económicas; Archivo General de la Nación de Mexico
“The Mexican National Archive: Its History and Its Future”
March 5, 2010
José Refugio de la Torre Curiel, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
“Undercover Foes: Apache Raids and Interethnic Alliances in the Transformation of Sonora’s Northern Frontier in the Late Colonial Period”
May 8, 2010
Pekka Hamalainen, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Shapes of Power: Towards a Comparative History of North American Frontiers, Borderlands, and Empires”
