Editorial/Advisory Board for Digital History Project
Beverly Singer, Ph.D
Deena Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Photo Courtesy of Loyola Marymount University, Manegate, 2006.Doris Meyer, Ph.D.
DORIS MEYER is Roman S. and Tatiana Weller Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies (Connecticut College) and also taught for many years at Brooklyn College (CUNY). Since retiring to New Mexico in 1998, she has also been Research Associate at the University of New Mexico’s Latin American and Iberian Institute and at the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. She holds a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from U. of Virginia. Her publications include numerous books and articles on Latin American literature, particularly contemporary women writers. Her most recent publication, This America of Ours: The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo, co-edited and translated with Elizabeth Horan (U. of Texas, 2003), will be published in Spanish in Fall 2007. She has also written about New Mexico in the territorial period, including her book, Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano Cultural Identity and the Spanish-Language Press, 1880-1920 (UNM Press, 1996). Of Hispanic decent on her mother’s side, she is married to Richard Hertz and lives in Santa Fe.
Gail Okawa, Ph.D.
Dr. Gail Okawa
Jason S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Jason S. Shapiro, practiced law in Pennsylvania for 15 years before deciding to return to the Pennsylvania State University where he earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology (1997). His dissertation research focused on the arrangement of built space at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, a 14th-15th century pueblo located near Santa Fe, NM, and resulted in the publication of his first book, “A Space Syntax Analysis of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico: Community Formation in the Northern Rio Grande” (SAR Press 2005). His second book, “Before Santa Fe: The Archaeology of the City Different (Museum of New Mexico Press 2008) is the first comprehensive synthesis of the archaeology of the Santa Fe region. In addition to his Ph.D., he has received a B.A. from Clark University (1972), an M.S.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1974), and a J.D. from Georgetown University (1977).
Dr. Shapiro lives in Santa Fe, NM where he teaches a variety of anthropology and archaeology courses at the College of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Community College. For the past six years he has been a member and is currently Chair, of the Archaeological Review Committee for the City of Santa Fe.
Jennifer Denetdale, Ph.D.
Jennifer Denetdale is Diné of the Navajo Nation and of the T³’ógi [Zia] and ‘Ashiih [Salt] clans. Originally from Tohatchi, New Mexico, she earned her Ph.D. in history from Northern Arizona University in 1999. She holds both a B.A. and a M.A. in English. Her book, Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Diné Chief Manuelito and Juanita, from the University of Arizona Press, 2007, is her first book. Her articles in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Wicazo Sa Review, and New Mexico Historical Review highlight her research interest in Navajo women, gender, and the politics of tradition. She has also published an interview with Vine Deloria, Sr., in Journal of Social Archaeology. Her current study is a history of Navajo women.
John Nieto Phillips, Ph.D.
Maria E. Montoya, Ph.D.
A native of New Mexico, Maria E. Montoya is an Associate Professor of History at New York University. She was previously an Associate Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where she also directed the Latina/o Studies Program. Prior to that she taught at the University of Colorado. She holds her BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Yale University and she also had the pleasure of doing Master’s work at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840 – 1900 (University of Kansas Press, 2005), as well as numerous articles that have appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, The Western Historical Quarterly, and The New Mexico Historical Review. Presently she is working on a book about John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Josephine Roche and their struggle to control the western coal market and their workers during the 1920s. She has sat on the Editorial Board of the Western Historical Quarterly and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of The American Quarterly and the Pacific Historical Review.
Ned Blackhawk, Ph.D.
Dr. Blackhawk is Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He teaches in both the Department of History and the American Indian Studies Program. He received his B.A. from McGill University, his M.A. from University of California - Los Angelesand his PhD from the University of Washington. His specializations are North American Indian History, Culture, and Identity from U.S. Colonial to 21st Century; Race and Multiculturalism; Comparative Colonial. His Research and Teaching Interests include American Indian history, U.S.West, Spanish Borderlands, Comparative Colonialism, and Race and Violence. Dr. Blackhawk just published an already award winning book--Violence over the Land
Indians and Empires in the Early American West with Harvard University Press. Violence over the Land is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples, written from the vantage point of an Indian scholar whose own family history is intimately bound up in its enduring legacies. Pablo Mitchell, Ph.D.
Pablo Mitchell is associate professor of History at Oberlin COllege and the director of the Comparative American Studies program. He is the author of Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 (University of Chicago Press, 2005). The book was awarded the 2007 Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. His next book project is titled West of Sex: Sex Crimes in Modern America, 1900-1930 and examines sex, race, and modernity in the American West.Rudy Busto, Ph.D.
Sarah Deutsch, Ph.D.