Andrés Reséndez | |
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Awards | Bancroft Prize (2017) |
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Main interests | Mexican history |
Andrés Reséndez is a historian at the University of California, Davis. His specialties are Mexican history, early exploration and colonization of the Americas and the Pacific Ocean, and borderlands history. [1] [2] [3]
In 2017, Reséndez won the
Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.
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Reséndez grew up in Mexico City. [6]
He received his Bachelor's degree in International relations at el Colegio de México in 1992 and worked in the Mexican government briefly around that time. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago. During his years as a graduate student, Reséndez served as a consultant for historical soap operas. He went on to teach at Yale University and University of Helsinki. He is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis.