Borderlands 9th Annual Workshop CFP: “New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands”
Seminar C0-Leaders:
Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside
This workshop, held on Friday April 10, 2026, 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 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 March 27, 2026, and attend the all-day workshop on Friday April 10, 2026.
For full consideration please submit a proposal and CV by December 5, 2025 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 document. The organizers, Steve Hackel (steven.hackel@ucr.edu ) and Alejandra Dubcovsky (alejandra.dubcovsky@ucr.edu) can answer any questions.
Organized with generous support from the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Additional support offered by the the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, UC Riverside Department of History, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Image: Millard Sheets, Mural for the Home of Fred H. and Bessie Ranke, 1934. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
