Contact

email:cradding@unm.edu

office: 2094 Mesa Vista Hall

office phone: (505) 277-4428

Profile

Cynthia Radding is Professor of History and Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute of the University of New Mexico. She is the author of five research monographs and co-author of two regional histories, published in both English and Spanish. Her scholarly work intersects the fields of ethnohistory, environmental history, and social history, exemplified by Wandering Peoples. Colonialism, Ethnicity and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico (1997). Her recent book-length and article publications contribute to comparative history, with substantive research in Mexico, the Andes and the Amazonian internal frontiers of South America, as illustrated by: Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic (2005), and “Forging Cultures of Resistance on Two Colonial Frontiers: Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia,” in John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, eds., New World Orders. Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, (2005). Radding is a frequent manuscript reviewer for HAHR, The Americas, The Journal of Women’s History, and the Duke University and University of Arizona Presses. She brings to the editorial team key institutional contacts in Mexico, Brazil, and Bolivia.

Education

B.A., Smith College, 1968

M.A., University of California, Berkeley , 1970

Ph.D History, University of California, San Diego, 1990

Research

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Selected Publications

Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.

“Sonora-Arizona: The común, Local Governance, and Defiance in Colonial Sonora,” in Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank, eds., Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion. Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2005, p. 179-199.

“Forging Cultures of Resistance on Two Colonial Frontiers: Northwestern Mexico and Eastern Bolivia,” in John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, eds., New World Orders. Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, p. 157-178.

Paisajes de poder e identidad. Fronteras imperiales en el desierto de Sonora y bosques de la Amazonía. Trad., Rose Marie Vargas Jastram. Sucre, Bolivia: Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia, 2005.

Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers (Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850) , Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. ASE Prize, 1998.

“Viviendas y espacios domésticos en la Sonora colonial,” in Rosalva Loreto López, ed., Casas, viviendas y hogares en la historia de México, Mexico, El Colegio de México, 2001, p. 249-60.

Awards

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Courses

Early Mexico; Environmental History of Cuba; Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Inequalities in Latin America.