Andrés Reséndez
{{Short description|American historian}}
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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.{{cite web|url=http://history.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Resendez_Andres |title=U.C. Davis History Department – Faculty – Andres Resendez |accessdate=2010-02-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620081919/http://history.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Resendez_Andres |archivedate=2009-06-20 }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/us/indian-slaves-genizaros.html|title=Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It.|newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 January 2018 |access-date=2018-10-29|language=en|last1=Romero |first1=Simon }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.processhistory.org/resendez-slavery/|title=There's Nothing New about the "New Slavery"|date=2016-07-20|work=Process: a blog for american history|access-date=2018-10-29|language=en-US}}
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In 2017, Reséndez won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/laurels-resendez-wins-bancroft-prize|title = LAURELS: Reséndez Wins Bancroft Prize|date = 21 March 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-native-american-slavery-20160505-snap-story.html|title=The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history – Los Angeles Times|last=Treuer|first=David|website=Los Angeles Times|date=13 May 2016|access-date=2018-10-29}}
Early life
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
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External links
- [https://www.c-span.org/person/?andresresendez Andres Resendez] on C-SPAN
- [http://history.ucdavis.edu/people/resendez Faculty profile] for University of California, Davis
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