SUSAN M. DEEDS
Address: Department of History, Box 6023 1517 North Kutch Drive
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Professor, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, 2001-
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
B.A. University of Nebraska, 1965
M.A. University of Nebraska, 1974
Master's Thesis: "José María Maytorena and the Mexican Revolution in Sonora, 1910-1915"
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1981
Doctoral Dissertation: "Rendering unto Caesar: The Secularization of Jesuit Missions in Mid-Eighteenth Century Durango"
LANGUAGES
Spanish and Portuguese (Eight years residence in Mexico and Brazil)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND HONORARIES
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Alpha Theta
Member, American Historical Association, Conference on Latin American Studies, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, American Society for Ethnohistory, Latin American Studies Association, Association of Borderlands Studies
Secretary, Committee on Mexican Studies, Conference on Latin American History, 1987
Member, Committee on Demographic History, Conference on Latin American History, 1986-1989
President, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 1983-1984; 1990-1991
Chairperson, Graduate Student Prize Committee, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 1984-1986
Executive Council, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 1984-2006
Member, Projects and Publications Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1989-1991
Member, General Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1990-1992
Member, Nomination Committee, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, 1993-1994
Chair, Mexican Studies Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1994-1996
Member, Robert F. Heizer Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1995
Chair, Robertson Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1996
Member, Wheeler-Voegelin Book Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1997
Member, Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 1998-1999
Member, Program Committee, Conference on Latin American History Meeting, San Francisco, 2002
Chair, Borderlands Studies Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 2001-2003
Member, Board of Directors, Mexico-North Research Network, 1998-2006
Member, Organizing Committee, XII Reunion of Mexican, United States and Canadian Historians, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2005-2006
Executive Board Councillor, American Society for Ethnohistory, 2005-2007
Member, Bolton-Kinnaird Prize Committee, Western Historical Association, 2005-2006
Chair, Bolton-Kinnaird Prize Committee, Western Historical Association, 2007
Chair, Lewis Hanke Prize Committee, Conference on Latin American History, 2006-2007
Vice President & Program Chair, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2007-2008
North American Coordinator, XIII Reunion of Mexican, United States, and Canadian Historians, Mexico, 2010
Member, Elinor Melville Prize Committee for Latin American Environmental History, Conference on Latin American History, 2008-2010
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND PRIZES
Regents' Scholarships, University of Nebraska, 1961-1965
State Department Fellowship, El Colegio de México, 1963-1964
NDEA Fellowship, University of Nebraska, 1966-1967
Fulbright Fellowship for Doctoral Research, Mexico, 1976-1977
Rockfellow Scholarship, History Department, University of Arizona, 1977-1978
University of Arizona Graduate College Grant, Research in Guadalajara Archives, 1978
Fellowship for Documentary Editing, National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives, 1981-1982
Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant for Research in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, 1984
Northern Arizona University Organized Research Grants, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000
Grant-in-Aid, Colorado Plateau Research Center, 1990
Edward H. Spicer Award for the best article in the Journal of the Southwest, 1991
American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1993
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1993-1994
Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Mexico, 1994
Andrew W. Mellon Travel Grant, Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University, 1999
Northern Arizona University Teacher-Scholar Award, 2002
Northern Arizona University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Award, 2002-2003
Edwin Lieuwen Memorial Prize for the teaching of Latin American Studies, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2004
Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize for the best book in Latin American History in 2003, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
Research & Travel Grant, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico, 2007
NAU Phi Kappa Phi Scholar of the Year, 2008
RESEARCH
Mexico City: Archivo General de la Nación; Biblioteca Nacional; Museo de Antropología; Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de los Jesuitas
Durango, Mexico: Archivo del Gobierno del Estado; Archivo de la Catedral
Guadalajara, Mexico: Archivo de la Audiencia de Nueva Galicia, Biblioteca Pública del Estado; Archivo de Instrumentos Públicos, Tierras y Aguas
Hermosillo, Sonora: Archivo del Municipio de Hermosillo
Monterrey, Mexico: Archivo Municipal de Monterrey
Saltillo, Mexico: Archivo Municipal de Saltillo
Seville, Spain: Archivo General de Indias
Madrid, Spain: Biblioteca Nacional, Archivo Histórico Nacional
Washington, D.C.: Hispanic Foundation, Library of Congress
RESEARCH SPECIALTIES
Colonial Mexican History and Ethnohistory, Latin American History, Mexican Revolution, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistantships, History of Western Civilization, University of Arizona, 1973-1975
Editorial Research Assistant, Hispanic American Historical Review, 1975-1976
Assistant Editor, Hispanic American Historical Review, 1977-1980
Visiting Assistant Professor, Colonial and Modern Mexican History, University of Arizona, 1980-1981
Teaching Associate, Colonial Mexican History, University of Arizona, Fall 1981
Documentary Editor/Translator, Documentary Relations of the Southwest, University of Arizona, 1982
Assistant Director, Latin American Area Center, and Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, July 1982-July 1986
Courses Taught: Colonial and Modern Mexico; Contemporary Central America; Religion and Society in Latin America; U.S.-Latin American Relations; The U.S. and Central America; National Indian Policies of the Americas; Contemporary Latin America
Other Duties: Advising Latin American Studies majors; writing and administering grants; coordination of interdepartmental, Latin America-related activities; planning and hosting conferences; conducting training programs; community outreach
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, 1986-1992
Associate Professor, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, 1992-2001
Professor, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, 2001–
Courses Taught (1986-2002); History of Colonial Latin America; History of Latin America since Independence; History of Mexico; History of the Mexican Revolution; History of Central America; History of Inter-American Diplomacy; History of the U.S.-Mexico Border; Comparative Indian Policies of the Americas; Indian Acculturation in Latin America, Contemporary Latin America; 20th Century Latin American Revolutions; Columbus Legacy; Contested Hegemonies in Latin America; Comparative Frontiers in Latin America; Culture, Ethnicity and Identity in Mexico and the Borderlands; History through Film, Historiography and Methodologies; Culture, Power & Ideology in Latin America and the Borderlands
BOOKS PUBLISHED
Defiance and Deference in Colonial Mexico: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). Winner of a Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association and the Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize for the best book in Latin American History from the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies.
With Michael C. Meyer and William L. Sherman, The Course of Mexican History, 6th, 7th, and 8th eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 2003, and 2007).
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
"José María Maytorena and the Mexican Revolution in Sonora, 1910-1915," Parts 1 and 2, Arizona and the West, 18: 1 and 2 (Spring and Summer, 1976), 21-40; 125-148.
"Las relaciones entre los jesuitas y los oficiales reales en Sinaloa y Sonora a mediados del siglo XVIII," in Memoria del IV Simposio de Historia de Sonora (Hermosillo, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 1979), 94-108.
"La frontera Sonora-Arizona durante la Revolución Mexicana," in Memoria del IX Simposio de Historia de Sonora (Hermosillo, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 1984), 378-391.
"Land Tenure Patterns in Northern New Spain," The Americas, 41:4 (April 1985), 446-461.
"The Other Side of Jesuit Missionary Life in Colonial New Spain," in Proceedings of the 33rd Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (Las Cruces, 1985), I: 11-19.
"Rural Work in Nueva Vizcaya: Forms of Labor Coercion on the Periphery," Hispanic American Historical Review, 69:3 (August 1989), 425-450.
"New Spain's Far North: A Changing Historiographical Frontier?" Latin American Research Review, 25:2 (1990), 226-235.
"Trabajo rural en Nueva Vizcaya: formas de coerción laboral en la periferia," Actas del Primer Congreso de Historia Regional Comparada (Cd. Juárez: Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 1989), 161-172.
"Mission Villages and Agrarian Patterns in a Nueva Vizcayan Heartland, 1600-1750," Journal of the Southwest, 33:3 (Autumn 1991), 345-365.
"Las rebeliones tarahumaras del siglo XVII," Cuadernos de Trabajo (Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez), No. 7 (Fall 1992), 7-13.
"Indians of Northern Mexico, Baja California, and Southwestern North America," The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), I, 368-369.
"Las rebeliones de los tepehuanes y tarahumaras durante el siglo XVII en la Nueva Vizcaya," Colección conmemorativa del quinto centenario del encuentro de dos mundos, Vol. 4: El contacto entre los españoles e los indígenas en el norte de la Nueva España (Cuidad Juárez: Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, 1992), 9-40.
"Indigenous Responses to Mission Settlement in Nueva Vizcaya," in Erick Langer and Robert H. Jackson, eds., The New Latin American Mission History (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), 77-108.
"Bent's Fort" I:334, "Gadsden Purchase" III: 1-2, "Nueva Vizcaya" IV: 201-202,. and "Provincias Internas" IV: 479-480, in Encyclopedia of Latin American History (New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1995).
"Double Jeopardy: Indian Women in Jesuit Missions of Nueva Vizcaya," in Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, eds., Indian Women of Early Mexico (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 255-272.
“First-Generation Rebellions in Nueva Vizcaya,” in Susan Schroeder, ed., Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), 1-29.
“Indigenous Rebellions on the Northern Mexican Mission Frontier: From First-Generation to Later Colonial Responses,” in Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan, eds., Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998), 32-51.
“Colonial Chihuahua: Peoples and Frontiers in Flux,” in Robert H. Jackson, ed., New Views of Borderlands History (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998), 21-40.
“Legacies of Resistance, Adaptation, and Tenacity: History of the Native Peoples of Northwest Mexico,” in Richard E.W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod, eds., The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. II: Mesoamerica, part 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 44-88.
“Como historiar con poca historia y menos arqueología: Clasificación de los acaxees, xiximes, tepehuanes, tarahumaras y conchos,” in Marie Areti Hers and José Mirafuentes Galván, eds., Nómadas y sedentarios en el norte de México:Homenaje a Beatriz Braniff (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2000), 381-391.
“Resistencia indígena y vida cotidiana en la Nueva Vizcaya: Trastornos y cambios étnico-culturales en la época colonial,” in Claudia Molinari and Eugeni Porras, eds., La identidad y los pueblos étnicos en la Sierra Tarahumara (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2002), 55-69.
“Brujería, género e inquisición en Nueva Vizcaya,” Desacatos: Revista de Antropología Social, no. 10, 2003, 30-47.
“Pushing the Borders of Latin American Mission History,” Latin American Research Review, 39:2 (June 2004), 211-220.
“Subverting the Social Order: Gender, Power, and Magic in Nueva Vizcaya,” in Ross Frank and Frank de la Teja, eds., Social Control on New Spain’s Northern Frontiers: Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 95-119.
“New Spain, Viceroyalty of,” Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450,Thomas Benjamin, ed., 3 vols. (New York: Thomson Gale, 2006), II: 846-50.
“Los tepehuanes en misiones jesuitas: cambios étnicos y culturales en los siglos XVII y XVIII,” in Chantal Cramaussel and Sara Ortelli, eds., La Sierra Tepehuana: Asientamientos y movimientos de población (Zamora, Mexico: El Colegio de Michoacán and Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, 2006), 219-230.
“Hechicería en el Norte colonial de México: Reflexiones sobre género y metodología,” Alicia Mayer, ed., Mujeres e historia: Homenaje a Josefina Muriel (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008), 81-102.
Book Reviews (77) for American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Arizona and the West, Journal of Arizona History, American Indian Quarterly, Choice, History, Locus, The Americas, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Colonial Latin American Review, Journal of Southern History, Ethnohistory, William and Mary Quarterly, Desacatos: Revista de Antropología Social, Journal of the Southwest, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, New Mexico Historical Review, 1975-2008.
WORK SUBMITTED AND IN PRESS
“Missions as Transactional and Transitional Crossroads: A Case from Nueva Vizcaya,”in Pete Dimas, ed., The Provincias Internas: Continuing Frontiers (Arizona Historical Society, forthcoming 2007-8).
“Escaseces y disensiones: la historia de agua en el noreste colonial,” for anthology on water history and use in northern Mexico, Red de Investigadores del Agua en Cuencas del Norte de México, article submitted summer 2007).
WORK IN PROGRESS
Spanish edition of a revised version of Defiance and Deference for a more popular audience, to be published in the series of the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores de Antropología Social on “Pueblos indígenas de México.”
Research on criminality, curanderismo/popular healing, and water use and control in colonial northern Mexico.
PAPERS READ AND SESSIONS CHAIRED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
"José Maria Maytorena y la Revolución Mexicana en Sonora, 1910-1915," Primer Simposio de Historia de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, October 1975.
"Rendering unto Caesar: The Secularization of Jesuit Missions in Mid-Eighteenth Century Durango," Committee on Mexican Studies, CLAH, American Historical Association Meeting, Dallas, December 1977.
"Los jesuitas y los oficiales reales en Sinaloa y Sonora: El clima político a mediados del siglo XVIII," Cuarto Simposio de Historia de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, November 1978.
"Jesuit Missions in Mid-Eighteenth Century Durango," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, April 1980.
"Bourbon Winds of Change before 1767: The Case of the Jesuits in Northern Mexico," Western Social Science Association Meeting, San Diego, April 1981.
"La frontera Sonora-Arizona durante la Revolución Mexicana," VIII Simposio de Historia de Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, November 1982.
Chairperson, Session on Latin American Colonial Social History, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, Park City, Utah, April 1983.
Chairperson, Session on Sonoran History, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, Tucson, February 1984.
"The Other Side of Jesuit Missionary Life in Colonial New Spain," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Seeley Lake, Montana, September 1984.
"Land Tenure Patterns in Northern New Spain," American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, December 1984.
Commentator, Session on New Spain's Northern Frontier, VI Reunion of U.S. and Mexican Historians, Oaxaca, October 1985.
Chairperson, Session on Policy Considerations, U.S.-Mexico Conference on Copper Smelter Emissions, Tucson, February 1986.
“Population Movements in Eighteenth-Century Villages of Nueva Vizcaya," Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, April 1986.
"The Persistence of the Labor Repartimiento in Eighteenth-Century Nueva Vizcaya," American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, December 1986.
Chairperson, Session on the Spanish in the Southwest, Arizona Historical Convention, Flagstaff, May 1987.
Commentator, Session on Comparative Frontiers, Southern Branch of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, November 1987.
"Sistemas de trabajo en Nueva Vizcaya durante el siglo xvii," Simposio del Instituto de Antropología e Historia sobre Historia Socioeconómica de México en el Siglo XVII, Mexico City, February 1988.
"Agrarian Patterns in a Nueva Vizcayan Heartland," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, New Orleans, March 1988.
Commentator, Session on Indian Resistance and Rebellion in Colonial Latin America, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 1988.
Commentator, Session on Northern Mexican History, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, Las Cruces, February 1989.
"El trabajo agrícola en Nueva Vizcaya: Formas de coerción laboral en la periferia," I Congreso de Historia Regional Comparada, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, April 1989.
"Tarahumara Responses to Spanish Domination in the Seventeenth Century: The Role of Rebellion," American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, December 1989.
"Rebeliones tarahumaras del siglo XVII," II Congreso de Historia Regional Comparada, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, March 1990.
Commentator, Session on Spanish Communities in the Periphery, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1990.
Commentator, Session on Land Tenure during the Colonial Period, VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, October 1990.
Round-table presenter, Session on Colonial Ethnohistory, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, Flagstaff, February 1991.
"Missions and the Restructuring of Indigenous Societies in Nueva Vizcaya," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 1991.
Commentator, Session on Borderlands, Frontiers or "Provincias Internas": Reclaiming the History of Late Colonial Northern New Spain, American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, December 1991.
Commentator, Session on Demographic History of Colonial Northern Mexico, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, El Paso, April, 1992.
"Indigenous Responses to Jesuit Missions in Nueva Vizcaya," Loyola University Symposium: Agents of Change: The Jesuits and Encounters of Two Worlds, Chicago, October 1992.
"Trends in the Ethnohistory of Colonial Northern Mexico," American Society for Ethnohistory, Salt Lake City, November 1992.
Commentator, Session on Colonial Latin American Ethnohistory, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Vancouver, April 1993.
"Algunos aspectos de la historia demográfica de las misiones de los jesuitas entre tepehuanes y tarahumaras," IV Congreso Internacional de Historia Regional Comparada, Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, October 1993.
Invited lecture: Seminario de Demografía Histórica, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, May 1994.
"Ethnicity and Identity in Nueva Vizcaya," IX Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Mexico City, October 1994.
"Tepehuan and Tarahumara Women in Jesuit Missions," American Society for Ethnohistory Meeting, Tempe, November 1994.
Chairperson, "The National Period in Mexican History: Theory and Comparative Method in Dissertation Research of the Post-Modern (but not Post-Revolutionary) Present, "Mexican Studies Committee Session, Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, January 1995.
Commentator, Session on Gender in Mexican History, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, Las Vegas, March 1995.
"Como historiar con poca historia y menos arqueología," Colloquium on Nómadas y Sedentarios en el Norte de México, Durango, Mexico, October 1995.
"Ethnic and Social Transformations in Colonial Nueva Vizcaya," American Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, January 1996.
Chairperson, "Colonial Mexican History in the Wake of Post-Colonial Criticism: Trends in Dissertation Research," Mexican Studies Committee Session, Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, January 1996.
"De ranchería a misión: Los resultados de la política de congregación en Nueva Vizcaya," Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.
"Coping with Upheaval: Ethnogenesis in Jesuit Missions of Nueva Vizcaya," American Society for Ethnohistory Meeting, Mexico City, November 1997.
Invited Lecture: “Cambios étnicos y culturales en las misiones de Chihuahua,” V Seminario de Investigación de Historia, Centro INAH, Hermosillo, Sonora, October 1998.
“Nueva Vizcayan Missions as Transactional and Transitional Crossroads,” Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Austin, June 1999.
“Porous Boundaries and Transitional Spaces: Missions of Nueva Vizcaya,” Borderlands Studies Committee Session, Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, January 2000.
“Los tepehuanes en misiones jesuitas: Cambios étnicos y culturales en los siglos XVII y XVIII,” Simposio Internacional sobre Asentamientos y Movimientos de Población en la Sierra Tepehuana desde la Prehistoria hasta Nuestros Días, Santa María Ocotán, Durango, Mexico, April 2000.
“Early Indigenous Responses to Missions in Northwestern Mexico,” Mexico-North Research Network Meeting, San Antonio, February 2001.
“Ethnohistorical Encounters with the New Cultural History,” Colonial Roundtable Session, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Tucson, March 2001.
Chairperson, Session on “New Spain’s Northern Frontier,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin America Studies, Tucson, March 2001.
Invited Lecture: “Magia, fantasía y género en el siglo XVII: la transformación de Antonia de Soto de sirvienta a pícaro en la frontera del norte,” Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, April 2001.
Invited Lecture: “Casos de brujería e inquisición en el norte del país,” Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, May 2001.
Invited Lecture: “El contacto entre indígenas y españoles en el Norte de la Nueva España,” Seminario del Noroeste de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, May 2001.
“Rendering unto Caesar at the Crossroads of Ethnicity and Identity in Mid-Eighteenth Century Nueva Vizcaya, Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. September 2001.
“Magic, Fantasy, Gender, and Power in Nueva Vizcaya,” Conference on Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers, University of California, San Diego, September 2001; (revised version presented at conference at Southern Methodist University, April 2002).
Chairperson, “Culture, Power, Gender, and Ethnicity: Trends in Dissertation Research on the Northern Borderlands of Spain and Mexico,” Conference on Latin American History Borderlands-Frontiers Committee Session, American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, January 2002.
“El papel de curanderismo en Nueva Vizcaya,” VII Congreso Internacional Salud-Enfermedad de la Prehistoria al siglo XXI, Mexico City, September 2002.
Chairperson, “Revisiting Conflict and Violence on Frontiers: Old Paradigms and New Approaches,” Borderlands/Frontiers Commitee Session/Conference on Latin American History/AHA, Chicago, January 3, 2003.
Invited lecture:“Missions and the [Re]Constitution of Communities: Ethnicide, Ethnogenesis, and Mestizaje on the Nueva Vizcayan Frontier,” School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM, January 29, 2003.
“Magic and the Flaunting of Patriarchy on Colonial Mexico’s Northern Frontier,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Tempe, AZ, February 21, 2003.
“Bosquejo histórico de la misión jesuita de Santa María de Cuevas,” Symposium on Mission, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico, March 6, 2003.
“Missions as Transactional and Transitional Crossroads in the Greater Southwest,” Phoenix College Symposium on Continuing Frontiers, March 28, 2003.
“Etnogénesis y mestizaje en Nueva Vizcaya,” XI Reunión de Historiadores Mexicanos, Estadounidenses y Canadienses, Monterrey, Mexico, October 2, 2003.
“Fictive Frontier Egalitarianism? Rethinking the Limits of Ethnic and Gender Mobility in the Colonial Mexican North,” Conference on Latin American History, American Historical Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 10, 2004.
Invited lecture: “Misiones y etnicidad en el norte de México: siglos XVII y XVIII,” Departamento de Historia de las Américas, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, March 18, 2004.
Member, Panel Discussion on James F. Brooks, Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, September 30, 2005.
Chairperson, “Clerical Activities on the Frontiers of Empire,” Conference on Latin American Studies Borderlands/Frontiers Committee, American Historical Association Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 7, 2005.
“Biological and Cultural Mestizaje in Nueva Vizcaya,” Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Tucson, April 2, 2005.
Invited lecture: “Weaving, Unraveling and Reconstituting Ethnic Communities: Jesuit Missions in Mexico’s Colonial North,” Yale University, September 14, 2005.
Plenary speaker: “La crisis y reconstrucción de las sociedades norteñas a raíz de la colonización,” Primer Coloquio Carl Lumholtz de Antropología e Historia del Norte de México, Chihuahua City, October 27, 2005.
“Gender, Ethnicity, and Curanderismo in Northern Mexico,” New Directions in Women’s/Gender Histories in the 21st Century: Promises and Predicaments, Northern Arizona University, March 9, 2006.
“Interpreting the Enduring Mission System: Overview of the Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in New Spain,” Tucson Mission Gardens Conference, March 24, 2006.
“Complejidades en la desaparición y persistencia de sociedades norteñas a raiz de la colonización en Nueva Vizcaya,” 52nd Congreso de Americanistas, Seville, Spain, July 2006.
“Male and Female Domains of Mystery and Magic in Colonial Northern Mexico,” XII Reunion of Mexican, United States, and Canadian Historians, Vancouver, Canada, October 4-8, 2006.
“Etnogénesis y grupos indígenas del norte de México,” Seminar in Migration History, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Monterrey, Mexico, February, 16, 2007.
“Etnocidio, etnogénesis y mestizaje en el norte colonial de México,” Presentation, Virtual University of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, February 21, 2007.
“Disputas por el agua en el noreste colonial,” IV Seminario, Red de Investigadores del Agua en Cuencas del Norte de México,” Culiacán, Sinaloa, March 10, 2007.
“Hechicería y género en el Norte colonial de México,” invited lecture, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, May 22, 2007.
“Inquisición y género en el norte colonial de México: Reflexiones sobre metodología,” Coloquio Internacional del Cuerpo Académico Estudios de Género en México: Historia, Economía, Política y Diversidad Sexual, Universidad Autónoma Benito Júarez de Oaxaca, June 20, 2007.
INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS
Co-Principal Investigator, Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants, $40,000, 1983-1984.
Co-Principal Investigator, Development Associates Grant to Train Mexican Municipal Officals in Public Administration, $23,700, 1983.
Co-Principal Investigator, Development Associates Grant to Train Mexican Agricultural Technicians and Planners in Water Management and Irrigation Technologies, $37,495, 1984.
Principal Investigator, Grant from University of Arizona Centennial Committee for a History of Latin American Programs at the University of Arizona, $1,000, 1984.
Co-Principal Investigator, United States Information Agency Grant to Study Views of the United States in Mexican Free Elementary Textbooks, $8,000, 1985.
Co-Principal Investigator, Grants for Binational (U.S.-Mexico) Conference on the Impacts of Copper Smelters in the Border Area, United States Information Agency, $6,985; United States Agency for International Development $5,600; and Environmental Protection Agency, $20,000; 1985-86.
Project Member, Ford Foundation Grant for International Partnership for the Study and Teaching of Issues Related to Indigenous Cultures, NAU, $50,000; 1997-98.
Principal Investigator, Arizona Humanities Council Grant for Symposium “Latin Legacies and Links: An Arizona Focus on Chicana and Latin American Women,” Northern Arizona University, $6,000, February 2000.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Kelley Hays-Gilpin), Christensen Fund Grant for indigenous participation in Common Roots/Vías del Noroeste Conference, Northern Arizona University, $32,000, May 2006.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University of Arizona
Executive Committee, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1985-1986.
Departmental advisor for all Latin American Studies B.A. and M.A. candidates and Honor's students, 1982-1986.
Member of 17 oral examination committees for the M.A. degree in Latin American Studies and 7 Ph.D. committees in Spanish, History, Political Science, and Sociology. Supervision of 3 M.A. theses.
Member of Committee on Graduate Study, 1984-1986.
Northern Arizona University
Chairperson of 13 M.A. and 3 Ph.D. Committees in History; member of committees for 52 M.A. or Ph.D. students in History and Political Science, 1986-2007.
Departmental committees, 1986-1989: Graduate Assistant Committee and Library Committee.
Curriculum Development for Department of History Emphasis in Latin American and Spanish History, 1987.
Member, International Studies Advisory Committee, 1986-1989.
Coordinator, International Studies Outreach project on Mexico ("Being There: The Many Faces of Mexico," April 8-9, 1987).
Coordinator of NAU Committee of Latin Americanists to allocate funds from an International Studies Grant for library acquisitions and to reorganize the Latin American Studies minor, 1987-1988.
University Scholarship Committee, 1987-1990; 1992-1993.
Member of History Department Search Committee for Chairperson, 1987-1988.
Faculty Advisor, NAU Chapter of Amnesty International, 1987-1993.
Chairperson, Latin American Studies Committee, 1986-1991.
Member, University-wide Liberal Studies Review Committee, 1989.
George Kyte Scholarship Committee, 1988-1990.
Member, Library Committees, History Department and Women's Studies, 1989-1990.
Coordinator, History Department Lecture Series, 1989-1990.
Member, Women Studies Advisory Committee, 1989-1990, 1991-1992.
Member, History Department Search Committee, 1989-1990.
Member, International Studies Task Force, 1989-1990.
Member, NAU Commission on the Status of Women, 1990-1992.
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, 1990-1993.
Member, Graduate Council, 1991-1993.
Member, Screening Committee for Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 1992.
Chair, College of A&S Budget Review Committee, 1992-1993.
Member, Latin American Studies Committee, 1991-2004.
Co-chair, Latin American Studies Committee, 1994-1995.
Member, History Department Graduate Committee, 1994-2000, 2001-2003.
Member, History Department Search Committee, 1994-1995.
Member, Departmental Self-Study Report Committee, 1994-1995.
Chair, Latin American Studies Committee, 1995-1996.
Member, Departmental Performance Evaluation Review Committee, 1995.
Member, University Organized Research Committee, 1995-1997.
Member, Budget Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1996-1998.
Member, Committee on Faculty Status, Spring 1997.
Member, Master's in Liberal Arts Admissions Committee, 1996-1997.
Chair, History Department Search Committee for Chicano/a Historian, 1996-l997.
Member, NEH Summer Grant Screening Committee, 1997-1998.
Chair, History Department Performance Evaluation Committees, 1998 and 1999.
Member, Southwest Studies Committee, 1998-2000.
Member, College of A & S Promotion & Tenure Committee, 1998-2000, 2001-2004.
Member, History Department Committee on Faculty Status, 2001-2003.
Member, History Department Annual Review Committee, 2001-2003.
Associate Chair, History Department, 2001-2002.
Member, Search Committee for Arts & Sciences Dean, 2001-2002, 2002-2003.
Chair, College of A & S Promotion & Tenure Committee, 2002-2003.
History Department Graduate Studies Coordinator, 2002-2005.
Member, University Graduate Committee, 2002-2004.
Member, University Graduate Review Committee, 2003-2004.
Faculty senator, 2003-2005.
Member, University Working Group on Faculty Effort and Expectations, Spring 2004.
Member, Commission on Ethnic Diversity, 2004-2005.
Latin American Studies Coordinator, 2004-2006.
Member, History Department Annual Review Committee, 2004-2006.
Member, Search Committee for Women’s/Western/Southwestern History, 2005-2006.
Member, Evaluation Committee for Teacher-Scholar Award, 2005.
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 2005-2006, 2007-2008.
Member, Committee on Faculty Status, 2007-2008..
Member, Search Committee for Associate Dean of the Graduate College, 2007
PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Consultant and paleographer for the State of New Mexico in water rights' litigation, Summer 1979; co-authored research report with Michael C. Meyer, "Land, Water, and Equity in Spanish Colonial and Mexican Law."
Participant in Library of Congress Workshop on "Hispanic Manuscripts in the United States: Nature and Access," Washington, D.C., January 1981.
Participant in debate on "Pancho Villa: Hero or Villain?," Century House Museum, Arizona Historical Society, Yuma, March 1983.
Board member of TECHO, an educational center in Tucson for disseminating information on Central America, 1985-1986.
Manuscript reader for University of Arizona Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University of New Mexico Press, Duke University Press, Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, The Journal of American History, The American Anthropologist, Ethnohistory, American Indian Quarterly, Colonial Latin American History Review, and Journal of Arizona History.
Discussant for Women's Studies film series Reel Women II, Brazilian film "Hour of the Star," January 1989.
Participant, "The Integrating Minority Women into the Curriculum Project," NAU Women's Studies Program and the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1989-1990.
Evaluator for Arizona Humanities Council Programs, 1990-1991.
Coordinator and President, 39th Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Meeting, Flagstaff, February 1991.
Participant, "Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers in the Greater Southwest and the Rio de la Plata," Planning Conference, Tucson, May 1991.
Lecturer, "1492: Discovery and Encounter," Arizona Humanities Council Seminar, June 1991.
Evaluator for National Endowment of the Humanities, Research Division, September 1991.
Lecturer, "Indigenous Responses to European Intrusion in Arizona and the Southwest," for Arizona Humanities Council Series: Arizona and the Consequences of 1992, May and September, 1992.
Lecturer, "Social and Economic Aspects of Jesuit Missions," for Arizona Humanities Council-U.S. Park Service Seminar on the New Mission History, Tubac, February 1994.
Lecturer, Proyecto Salud - Enfermedad de la Prehistoria al Siglo XX, Dirección de Etnología y Antropología Social, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, May 1994.
Lecturer, Seminario de Historia de la Enfermería en México, Escuela Nacional de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico City, June 1994.
Lecturer, "Double Jeopardy: Indian Women in Jesuit Missions," NAU Women's Studies Lecturer Series, February 1995.
Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for University and College Teachers, Summer 1997.
Evaluator, Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation and Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Spring 1999.
Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for University and College Teachers, Summer 2000.
Lecturer, “Como hacer historia con poca historia,” Dirección de Estudios Históricos (DEH) del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Mexico City, February 2001.
Lecturer, “Las rebeliones indígenas de primera generación en la Nueva Vizcaya,” DEH, INAH, Mexico City, March 2001.
Lecturer, “Los tepehuanes en misiones jesuitas,” DEH, INAH, Mexico City, May 2001.
Commentator at formal book presentation of Cecilia Sheridan Prieto, Anónimos y desterrados: La contienda por el “sitio que llaman de Quauyla,” siglos XVI-XVIII, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico City, May 2001.
Lecturer, “Metal Warbonnets, Thundering Canes, and Men in Skirts: Indigenous Responses to European Intrusion in Arizona and the Southwest,” Riordan Mansion State Historic Park, October 2001.
Consultant, Getty Grant for Restoration of Santa María de Cuevas (Chihuahua) Mission, Santa María de Cuevas, May 28-30, 2003
Advisory Board, Misiones Coloniales de Chihuahua, 2002-2004.
Lecturer, “Defiance and Deference in Colonial Mexico,” Riordan Mansion State Historical Park, December 9, 2003.
Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for University and College Teachers, January 2005.
Visiting Professor, One-week course for M.A. students, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Chihuahua, September 11-15, 2006.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial Research Assistant and Assistant Editor, Hispanic American Historical Review, 1975-1976, 1977-1980.
Documentary Editor, Documentary Relations of the Southwest, Arizona State Museum, 1981-1982.
Assistant Editor, PROFMEX-University of Arizona Mexican Monograph Series, 1984-1986.
Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Branch of Latin American Studies, 1988-1990.
Member, Referee Board of Quincentenary Edition, Platte Valley Review, 1991.