Andréz Reséndez is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at UC Davis. He is from Mexico City where he obtained his undergraduate degree in International Relations from El Colegio de México. He did his graduate work at the University of Chicago and later worked in Mexico to work as a professional consultant to historically-based television programs. Having obtained his Ph.D. in 1997, he returned to the US as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Yale University. He has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and the American Southwest. He has written articles about Mexico's northern frontier and the Mexican-American War for leading journals both in Mexico and in the United States. He is the editor and translator of A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, forthcoming in the Texas Library Series. He is also a member of the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
1. Carved spaces: Mexico's far north, the American southwest, or Indian domains?
2. A nation made visible: patronage, power, and ritual
3. The spirit of mercantile enterprise
4. The Benediction of the Roman ritual
5. The Texas Revolution and the not-so-secret history of shifting loyalties
6. The fate of Governor Albino Pérez
7. State, market, and literary cultures
8. New Mexico at the razor's edge.
