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Areas
of Interest
Early Modern Social &
Cultural European History.
Colonial Latin America History.
Colonial Mexico History.
History of Inquisition.
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Current
Courses
History 122: The Renaissance Reformation
History 162: Ancient and Colonial Latin America
History 100W: History Writers' Workshop.\
History 99: History Fundamentals (new course)
History 220B: Advanced Graduate Colloquium in World History,
100-1750
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Publications
• Partial book manuscript, "The Bonfires of
Culture: Franciscans, Indigenous
Leaders and
Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1519-40," under consideration
for early book
contract with the University of Oklahoma Press.
• "The 1539 Inquisition and Trial of Don Carlos of
Texcoco: Religion and Politics
in Early
Mexico," pending publication in the Hispanic
American Historical
Review, February 2008.
• "Franciscans, Indian Sorcerers and Inquisition in New
Spain, 1536-1543," The
Journal
of World History, March 2006.
• Latin America History Consultant for Concise History of the World: An Illustrated
Timeline (National Geographic Society, 2005).
• "Teaching Gender in World History: Nineteenth Century
Latin American Women,"
publication in the
Bulletin of World History,
Spring 2004.
• "Establishing History as a Teaching Field," The
History Teacher, August 2003.
• "The Politics of Spectacle: Royal Festivals
in the Spanish Habsburg
Court, 1528-1649"
(dissertation, 2000).
• "El progreso real y el
dialogo periferico: La entrada a Lisboa de 1619 en
al
Viage de la Catholica Real Magestad de Joao Baptista Lavanha"
Relaciones (1998).
• "Carnivals,
Triumphs and Rain Gods in the New World: A Civic Festival
in Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1539": Colonial
Latin American Review (1997).
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Selected Achievements
• Author of "Inventing America: Creating the
Teacher/Scholar Community in the Santa
Clara Valley," A United States Department of Education
Teaching American
History Grant, awarded to the partnership of the History
Department, the Santa
Clara County Office of Education and the Silicon Valley
History Online, awarded
one million dollars, June 2006.
• Keynote address to the annual conference of the Santa
Clara County Council for
Social Studies, San Jose, January 2006.
• Fellow, Comparative New World History Fellowship, John
Carter Brown Library,
Fall 2004.
• Fellow, International Seminar on the History of the
Atlantic World, Harvard University,
August 2004.
• Fellow, Program for Cultural Cooperation between
Spain's Ministry of Culture and
United States Universities, 2002-2003 and 1996-1997.
• Fellow, University of California Humanities Fellowship,
1996-1997.
• Fellow, Reed-Smith Fellowship, 1996-1997.
• Scholar, Eugene Cota Robles Scholarship, University of
California, Davis, 1993-1995.
• Burmahlin Scholar, History Department, San Jose State
University, 1993.
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Biography
After fifteen years of teaching in the public
schools, I returned to the university to take
a MA in History at San Jose State University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in
History at the
University of California, Davis, in 2000. My scholarly interests lie
in both early modern
history and history education.
I teach and advise in both areas.
Though I began in early modern European history
with an emphasis on Spanish
imperial history, I have branched into the area of colonial Mexico
in the first few
decades after the conquest. I have presented and published in this topic and I will
soon complete a book on the Inquisition of indigenous leaders in
central Mexico in the
1530s. In the future, I
hope to produce a second book on the subject of Mexico City
in the years 1519-1545.
I retain my very strong interest in the subject
of history education and I also publish,
research and present in this academic area.
I recently wrote a successful grant that
allows the History Department to work with field teachers in the
Santa Clara Valley to
improve their expertise in American history teaching.
I believe strongly in giving
teachers the opportunity to expand and deepen their content
knowledge and link it to
excellent and proven pedagogy.
Through the research results I will obtain from this
grant and other grant projects in history literacy, I hope to be
able to bring out a book in
a few years that explains the linkage of content knowledge in
history and effective
pedagogical strategies for the teaching of history, or what is often
called history
pedagogical content knowledge.
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