Andrés Reséndez

Andrés Reséndez
Occupations
  • Historian
  • professor
AwardsBancroft Prize (2017)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
Institutions
Main interestsMexican history

Andrés Reséndez is a historian at the University of California, Davis. His specialties are Mexican history, early exploration and colonization of the Americas and the Pacific Ocean, and borderlands history.[1][2][3]


In 2017, Reséndez won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.[4][5]

Early life

Reséndez grew up in Mexico City.[6]

Education and career

He received his Bachelor's degree in International relations at el Colegio de México in 1992 and worked in the Mexican government briefly around that time. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago. During his years as a graduate student, Reséndez served as a consultant for historical soap operas. He went on to teach at Yale University and University of Helsinki. He is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis.

Books

  • Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
  • The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
  • A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, Basic Books, 2007.
  • Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850, Cambridge University Press. 2005.
  • A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, edited and translated with an introduction and notes by Andrés Reséndez. Dallas: DeGolyer Library/Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 2005.
  • Caught Between Profits and Rituals: National Contestation in Texas and New Mexico, 1821–1848, University of Chicago, 1997

See also

References

  1. ^ "U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty - Andres Resendez". Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  2. ^ Romero, Simon (28 January 2018). "Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  3. ^ "There's Nothing New about the "New Slavery"". Process: a blog for american history. 2016-07-20. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  4. ^ "LAURELS: Reséndez Wins Bancroft Prize". 21 March 2017.
  5. ^ Treuer, David (13 May 2016). "The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history - Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  6. ^ "Organization of American Historians: Andrés Reséndez". www.oah.org. Retrieved 2018-10-29.


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