Seminar Co-Leaders:
Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside
This workshop 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.
Borderlands 9th Annual Workshop: “New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands”
Friday, April 10, 2026
The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Roger’s Classroom
Francisco Céntola, Georgetown University
“The Rise of the Global Hinterland: Long-Distance Commodity Circulation in California, 1769-1969”
Theodora Light, University of Georgia
“The Origins of a Black Story”
Colin Mathison, University of Mississippi
“Echoes of Independence: West Florida and the Frontiers of Spanish American Independence”
Brigitte McFarland, University of Chicago
“Sands in a Whirlwind: Paiutes, Settlers, and Contestations over Mobility in the Great Basin”
Ismael Pardo, University of Michigan
“The Miraflores Hacienda: The Limits of Paper and Social Production of Property on New Spain’s Northeastern Cattle Frontier, 1563-1588”
Scott Wagner, USC
“Brawlers for Liberty: Borderlands Adventurers in a Revolutionary Age”
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.
