U.C. Davis History Department - Faculty

Andres Resendez
Associate Professor

E: aresendez@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-0778
O: 3209 SSH
W: http://resendez.ucdavis.edu

Research Interests

Mexican history, national and ethnic identities, borderlands, DNA and indigenous peoples, exploration and conquest.

Selected Publications

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

Andrés Reséndez [and] Brian M. Kemp “Genetics and the History of Latin America.” Hispanic American Historical Review. May 2005

A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition (Trial of José Antonio Navarro) edited and translated, with an introduction and notes, by Andrés Reséndez. Forthcoming 2005.

.“An Expedition and Its Many Tales” in Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History. Duke University Press. 2004

Courses Taught

201I Seminar on Selected Topics of Mexican History
201 I/K Seminar on Borders, Borderlands, and National Identities
166A Precolumbian and Colonial History of Mexico
166B Modern Mexican History
167 Cultural and Intellectual History of Latin America
160 Spain and America in the 16th Century
10 World History in the 20th Century

Current Graduate Advisees

Eric Paul, Lia Schraeder, Eva St. Clair