Weber CV

DAVID J. WEBER

Curriculum vitae academicae

Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History &
Director, the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies,

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

PERSONAL DATA

COURSES TAUGHT
RESEARCH & TEACHING HONORS

EDUCATION
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Edited Books Introductions Scholarly Article Popular Articles Reviews
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY OFFICES

TEACHING & ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

PERSONAL DATA:

Born: Buffalo, NY, Dec. 20, 1940; US citizen.

EDUCATION:

B.S. (1962), Social Sciences, State University of New York, College at Fredonia

M. A. (1964) & Ph.D. (1967), History, University of New Mexico

TEACHING & ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor of History, Sept. 1967 to Aug. 1970, San Diego State University

Fulbright-Hays Lecturer, March 1970 to Dec. 1970, Universidad de Costa Rica (lectures in Spanish)

Associate Professor of History, Sept. 1970 to Aug. 1973, San Diego State University

Professor of History, Sept. 1973 to Aug. 1976, San Diego State University

Professor of History, Sept. 1976 to present, Southern Methodist University

SMU-in-Spain, Madrid, Jan. 1977 to May 1977

Professor of History and Department Chairman, Aug. 1979 to June 1986, Southern Methodist University

Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History, Sept. 1986 to present, Southern Methodist University

SMU-in-Spain, Madrid, Director, Sept. 1989 to May 1990

Director, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Sept. 1995 to present.

Visiting Professor (Profesor invitado) in the program: Doctorado Interuniversiario en Historia, taught at the Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, IEHS, Universidad Nacional del Centro, Tandil, Argentina, August 2000.

Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University, fall semester, 2002.

COURSES TAUGHT:

Latin America (Colonial and Modern); Mexico; Frontiers in the Americas; Spanish Borderlands; American Southwest; Mexican-American; Worlds of Christopher Columbus; Historical Method

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:

Books

The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971. Paperback reprints, 1980, 1982, 1991, 1996.
·              Recipient of a 1971 History Award from the Border Regional Library Association.

The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico, in the Histories of the American Frontier Series, edited by Ray Allen Billington and Howard R. Lamar. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982, hardcover and paper. 7^th paperback reprint, 2001.
·           The 1983 Ray Allen Billington Award from the Organization of American Historians for the best book to appear on the American frontier in the previous two years.
·           Co-Founders Book Award For Best Non-Fiction Published in 1982, Westerners International.
·          The 1982 History Award of the Border Regional Library Association.
·          The 1982 Presidio La Bahía Award from the Sons of the Texas Republic.
·           The 1982 Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.
·           University Lecture Series, Author's Award, 1983 (SMU).
·                 Spanish-language editions: La frontera norte de México, 1821-1846. El sudoeste norteamericano en su época mexicana. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988 and Madrid: Editorial Mapfre, 1992.

Richard H. Kern: Expeditionary Artist in the Far Southwest, 1848-1853. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, for the Amon Carter Museum, 1985.
·         Border Regional Library Association Award.
·         Outstanding Art Book Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center.

Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest: Essays by David J. Weber. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Paperback reprint 1990.

The Californios vs. Jedediah Smith: A New Cache of Documents. Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1990.

The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Paperback and cloth. 7 printings.
·          A New York Times “notable book” of 1992, and a History Book Club selection.
·          Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library, 1992
·          National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Outstanding Nonfiction Book of 1992 prize
·          Winner of the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the History Book Club
·          Premio España y América, 1992, from the Spanish Ministry of Culture
·          Texas Institute of Letters’ Carr P. Collins Award for the best non-fiction book of 1992
·          University Lecture Series, SMU, Author’s Award
·          Western History Association Caughey Prize, for the outstanding book on the American West in 1992
·                Spanish language edition: La frontera española en América del Norte. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000.

On the Edge of Empire: The Taos Hacienda of Los Martínez. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996. Paperback and cloth. Reprint, 2008.

Spanish Bourbons and Wild Indians. The Twenty-Sixth Charles Edmondson Lectures. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2004.
·         Won the American Historical Association’s 2006 John Edwin Fagg Prize “for the best publication in the history of Spain, Portugal, or Latin America” to appear in 2005.
·         Selected for Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006
·         Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2006
·         Spanish language edition, Bárbaros. Los españoles y sus salvajes en la era de la Ilustración Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 2007.

Bárbaros. Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Paperback, 2006. Spanish language edition, forthcoming, Barcelona: Editorial Crítica.

The Spanish Frontier in North America: The Brief Edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).

Edited Books

Ed. and trans., The Extranjeros: Selected Documents from the Mexican Side of the Trail, 1825-1828. Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1967.

Ed., Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country (With Additional Stories), by Albert Pike. Albuquerque: Calvin Horn, Publisher, 1967 (reprint, hardcover and paperback, College Station: Texas A&M Press Southwest Landmarks Series, 1987.)

Ed., Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans.   University of New Mexico Press, 1973. (12^th printing 1999, a 30^th anniversary edition, 2003, with new introduction by Arnoldo de León, and my new afterword).
·         Choice selected as one of the “Outstanding Academic Books” of 1974-1975 (“works of enduring value”) along with twenty-two other titles which appeared in the category of “History--North America.”

Ed., The Lost Trappers, by David H. Coyner. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1970 (reprint with new afterword, paperback, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).

Ed., El México perdido. Ensayos sobre el antiguo norte de México, 1540-1821. México: Secretaría de Educación Pública (serie SEP SETENTA), 1976.

Ed., Northern Mexico on the Eve of the United States Invasion: Rare Imprints Concerning California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, 1821-1846. New York: Arno Press, 1976.

Ed., with Duane L. Smith, Fortunes Are for the Few: Letters of a Forty-niner by Charles William Churchill. San Diego Historical Society, 1977.

Ed., New Spain's Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979, hard-cover and paper (reprint: 1984 ) (reprint, Dallas: SMU Press, 1988; 1989, 1992, 1996).

Ed. and trans., with Conchita Hassell Winn, Troubles in Texas, 1832: A Tejano Viewpoint from San Antonio. Austin: Wind River Press for the DeGolyer Library, 1983.

Ed. and trans. Arms, Indians, and the Mismanagement of New Mexico: Donaciano Vigil, 1846. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1986.

Ed., The Idea of Spanish Borderlands. New York: Garland Press, 1991.

Ed. with Jane M. Rausch, Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History. Jaguar Series on Latin America, William Beezley and Colin MacLachlan, eds. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1994.

Ed. with Jane Lenz Elder, Trading in Santa Fe: John Kingsbury's Correspondence with James Josiah Webb, 1853-1861. Dallas: SMU Press for the DeGolyer Library, 1996.
·         Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
·         Award of Merit from the Santa Fe Trail Association
·         Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award from the New Mexico Hist

Ed., What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.

Guest Editor. The Spanish Frontier in North America, a topical issue of the Magazine of History, published by the Organization of American Historians.

Forthcoming, with Jane Lenz Elder: Fiasco: George Clinton Gardner's Correspondence from the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey, 1849-1854. Dallas: SMU Press.

Introductions, Forewords, and Prefaces to Books

Introduction to a reprint of Travels in the Interior of Mexico in 1825, 1826, 1827 and 1828, by R. W. H. Hardy. 1st edition, London: 1829; reprint ed., Glorieta, New Mexico: Rio Grande Press, 1977, pp. 11-21.

Introduction to Tales of the Mountain Men, edited by Barton H. Barbour. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1984.

Foreword to Daniel Tyler, Sources for New Mexican History, 1821-1848. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Introduction to La Cultura Hispano Mexicana de Texas y Sus Orígenes. Dallas: Dallas Public library, 1986. (unpaged exhibit catalogue).

Introduction to a reprint edition of Cleve Hallenbeck, The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza. Dallas: SMU Press Press, 1987.

Foreword to W. H. Timmons, El Paso: Four Centuries of Borderlands History. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1990.

Foreword to Max L. Moorhead, The Presidio: Bastion of the Spanish Borderlands. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Preface to Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past, ed. by William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin. New York: Norton, 1992.

With Carla Rahn Phillips, "Introduction" for Essays on the Columbian Encounter [a series of four booklets, by James Axtell, Karen Ordahl Kupperman, William D. Phillips, Jr., and James P. Ronda]. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1991-92.

"Introduction" to José Cisneros, My Life As An Illustrator in the Southwest. Dallas: DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 1992.

"Remarks by the President," Five Centuries of Mexican History: Papers of the VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians . . . 1990, ed. by Virginia Guedea and Jaime E. Rodríguez-O. 2 vols.; Mexico: Instituto Mora, 1992.

Foreword to LeRoy and Ann Hafen, Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fé to Los Angeles. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

"Introduction" to Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest, Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett, eds. College Station: Texas A & M University, 1994.

With David Farmer, "Foreword" to The Defenses of Northern New Spain: Hugo O'Conor's Report to Teodoro de Croix, July 22, 1777, ed. and trans. by Donald C. Cutter. Dallas: SMU Press for the DeGolyer Library, 1994.

Foreword to “Adios Nuevo Mexico”: The Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859, ed. by David Remley. Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 1999.

With David Farmer, foreword for a CD ROM, Sylvia L. Hilton, ed., Las raíces hispánicas del oeste de norteamérica. Madrid: Colección Clásicos Tavera in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and the DeGolyer Library, 1999.

Foreword to Vicente de Zaldívar’s Report of his Expedition to the Buffalo Plains in 1598. A Bilingual Edition. Ed. by Jerry Craddock. Trans. By John H. R. Polt. Dallas: Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU, 1999.

Foreword to Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, Samuel Truett and Elliott Young, eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).

“Introduction,” to “A Southerner at Yale Views the West. A Roundtable on the Work of Howard Lamar,” Western Historical Quarterly, 36 (Summer 2005): 133-35.

Foreword to Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers. Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank, eds. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005).

As coeditor of the Histories of the American Frontier Series since 1982 I, together with Howard R. Lamar, Martin Ridge, and William Cronon, have written forewords to many books.

Scholarly Articles

"Panama," in Possible Threats to United States Security via Latin America. Edited by Miguel Jorrin and Edwin Lieuwen, classified manuscript, U.S. Air Force, 1966.

"William Workman: A Letter from Taos, 1826," New Mexico Historical Review 41 (April 1966):155-161.

"Stephen Louis Lee," in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, LeRoy R. Hafen, ed. (Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1966) 3:181-188.

"John Rowland," in ibid., (1966) 4:275-282.

"Gervais Nolan," in ibid., (1966) 4:225-230.

"The Municipal Archives of Ciudad Juarez," New Mexico Historical Review 42 (January 1967):26.

"Spanish Fur Trade from New Mexico, 1540-1821," The Americas, 24 (October 1967):122-136.

With Donald C. Cutter, "Cyrus Alexander," in Hafen, ed. The Mountain Men (Glendale, 1968) 5:23-30.

"Francois Laforet," in ibid. (1968) 6:213-218.

"Sylvestre Pratte," in ibid. (1968) 6:359-370.   Reprinted in Janet Lecompte, ed., French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1995), 258-69.

"Samuel Ellison on the Election of 1857," New Mexico Historical Review 44 (July 1969):215-221.

"Mexico and the Mountain Men, 1821-1828," Journal of the West 8 (July 1969):369-378. Reprinted in The Backwoodsman 7 (July/August 1986):6-12, 56.

"William Workman," in Hafen, ed., The Mountain Men (Glendale, 1969) 7:381-392.

"John Harris," in ibid., 155-160.

With Stephen T. Garrahy, "Francisco de Ulloa, Joseph James Markey, and the Discovery of Upper California," California Historical Quarterly 50 (March 1971):73-77.

"Louis Robidoux," in Hafen, ed., The Mountain Men (Glendale, 1971), 8:315-329. Reprinted in LeRoy R. Hafen, ed., Trappers of the Far West. Sixteen Biographical Sketches. Selected, with an introduction by Harvey L. Carter (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), 36-50.

"William Becknell as a Mountain Man: Two Letters," New Mexico Historical Review 46 (July 1971):253-260.

"Louis Robidoux: Two Letters from California, 1848," translated and edited by Weber, Southern California Quarterly 54 (Summer 1972):105-116. Reprinted in the Westport Historical Quarterly 8 (March 1973):106-117.

"An Unforgettable Day: Facundo Melgares on Independence," translated and edited by Weber, New Mexico Historical Review 48 (January 1973):27-44.

"A Black American in Mexican San Diego. Two Recently Recovered Documents," Journal of San Diego History 20 (Spring 1974):29-35.

"Stereotyping Mexico's Far Northern Frontier," in Manuel P. Servín, ed., An Awakened Minority: The Mexican-Americans (Glencoe Press, 1974), 18-26. An expanded version of this article, entitled "`Scarce More than Apes': Historical Roots of Anglo-American Stereotypes of Mexicans," has been reprinted in Weber, ed., New Spain's Far Northern Frontier (1979), 293-307; in Renato Rosaldo, et al., Chicano: The Evolution of a People (2nd ed.: Malabar, Fl: Robert E. Krieger, 1982), 56-62; Clyde A. Milner, II, Major Problems in the History of the American West (New York: D. C. Heath, 1989), 251-59; in Michael R. Ornelas, Between the Conquests: Readings in Early Chicano History (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1991), 73-85; and in an Italian translation in Acoma: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 4 (spring 1995):25-33.

"Asimilación y acomodamiento," en Aztlán: Historia del Pueblo Chicano (1848-1910). Ensayos compilados por David Maciel y Patricia Bueno (Mexico: Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP/SETENTAS, 1975), 147-171. (A translation of a portion of my Foreigners in Their Native Land.)

"California in 1831: Heinrich Virmond to Lucas Alamán," edited by David J. Weber and translated by Ronald R. Young, Journal of San Diego History 21 (Fall 1975):1-6. Reprinted and translated into Spanish in Meyibó (a journal published by the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California), 1 (March 1977):65-74.

"El gobierno territorial de Nuevo México: La exposición del Padre Martínez 1831," Historia Mexicana 25 (October-December 1975):302-315.

"From California to Sonora for Gold in 1851: The Letters of Charles Churchill," edited by Weber, Brand Book Number Four, San Diego Corral of Westerners, edited by Abraham P. Nasatir (San Diego: 1976), 23-29.

"Mexico's Far Northern Frontier, 1821-1854: Historiography Askew," Western Historical Quarterly 7 (July 1976):279-293.

"Mexico's Far Northern Frontier: A Critical Bibliography, 1821-1845," Arizona and the West 19 (Autumn 1977):225-266. An annotated bibliography of 160 entries.

"Here Rests Juan Espinosa: Toward a Clearer Look at the Image of the `Indolent' Californios," Western Historical Quarterly 10 (January 1979):61-68.

"Commentary" on "Rancheros, Comerciantes, and Trabajadores in South Texas, 1848-1900," by Arnoldo de León in Reflections of the Mexican Experience in Texas, Margarita Melville and Hilda Castillo Phariss, eds. (Houston 1979), 98-105.

"The Failure of a Frontier Institution: The Secular Church In the Borderlands Under Independent Mexico, 1821-1846," Western Historical Quarterly 12 (April 1981):125-43.

"American Westward Expansion and the Breakdown of Relations Between Pobladores and Indios Bárbaros on Mexico's Far Northern Frontier, 1821-1846," New Mexico Historical Review, 56 (July 1981):221-38. (One of the themes in this article is expanded upon in Donald W. Matson's letter to the editor, and my reply New Mexico Historical Review 57 (April 1982):203-08.

With Roger W. Lotchin, "The New Chicano Urban History: Two Perspectives," The History Teacher 16 (Feb. 1983):219-47.

"'From Hell Itself': The Americanization of Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1821-1846," in Border Perspectives, Working Papers Series (Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, University of Texas, El Paso, 1983), 1-14. Reprinted in The Cochise Quarterly 16 (Summer 1986):3-11.

With G. Emlen Hall, "Mexican Liberals and the Pueblo Indians, 1821-1829," New Mexico Historical Review 59 (January 1984):5-32.

"Raising the Blindfold: The Earliest Published Graphic Images of the Desert Southwest," Southwest Art (August 1984):50-56.

"The Artist, the Lithographer, and the Desert Southwest," Gateway Heritage 5 (Winter 1984-85):32-41.

"Coronado and the Myth of Quivira," Southwest Review 70 (Spring 1985), 230-41. Reprinted under the title: "Meditations on Coronado and the Myth of Quivira," in Dianna Everett, ed., Coronado and the Myth of Quivira (Canyon, Tx.: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1985), 59-69.

"The New Mexico Archives in 1827," New Mexico Historical Review 61 (January 1986):53-61.

"Turner, the Boltonians, and the Borderlands," American Historical Review 91 (January 1986):66-81 Translated and reprinted in Estados Unidos visto por sus historiadores, Victor A. Arriaga, et al., (Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, 1991), and also translated in Estudios sobre la frontera, Francisco de Solano y Salvador Bernabeu, eds. (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1991): 61-84.

"John Francis Bannon and the Historiography of the Spanish Borderlands," Journal of the Southwest 29 (Winter 1987):331-63. Reprinted in Amy Bushnell, ed., Establishing Exceptionalism: Historiography and the Colonial Americas (Aldershot, Eng.: Variorum, 1995):297-330.

"The Collapse of the Missions," in James J. Rawls, New Directions in California History: A Book of Readings (New York: McGraw Hill, 1988):46-59. Excerpted from The Mexican Frontier.

With Susan Armitage et al., "The Legacy of Conquest, by Patricia Nelson Limerick: A Panel of Appraisal," Western Historical Quarterly 20 (Aug. 1989):303-22.

With Jane Lenz Elder, “‘Without a Murmur’: The Death of Kate Kingsbury on the Santa Fe Trail,” in Mark Gardner, ed., The Mexican Road: Trade, Travel, and Confrontation on the Santa Fe Trail (Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1989), 98-105.

"Blood of Martyrs, Blood of Indians: Toward a More Balanced View of Spanish Missions in Seventeenth-Century North America," in Columbian Consequences, vol. 2: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East. David Hurst Thomas, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990), 429-48. Reprinted in Columbus, Confrontation, Christianity: The European-American Encounter Revisited. Timothy J. O'Keefe, ed. (Santa Clara, CA: Forbes Mill Press, 1994), 133-56.

"The Idea of the Spanish Borderlands," in Columbian Consequences, vol. 3: The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective. David Hurst Thomas, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), 3-20 and Spanish translation in Salvador Bernabéu, ed., El Septentión Novohispano. Ecohistoria, sociedades e imágenes de frontera (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, Centro de Estudios Históricos, 2000) 177-196.

"The Spanish Frontier in North America and the Historical Imagination," Western Historical Quarterly 24 (Feb. 1992):4-24 (translated and reprinted as "El legado español en Norteamérica y la imaginación histórica" in Madrid in the Revista de Occidente, [Nov. 1992]:104-24).

"The Mystery of Francisco de Ulloa and Joseph James Markey, Revisited," in Ferenc M. Szasz, ed., Great Mysteries of the West (Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 1993):207-117.

"The Spanish-Mexican Rim," Oxford History of the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994): 45-77.

With Julie Roy Jeffrey, "The Frontier Thesis," in Peter N. Stearns, ed., Encyclopedia of Social History (NY: Garland, 1994):291-92.

“Spain’s North American Frontier: Transformations,” in La frontera: Mito y realidad del Nuevo Mundo, ed. by María José Alvarez Maurin, et al. (León, Spain: Universidad de León, 1994): 353-61.

Annotated bibliography on the Spanish Borderlands, consisting of some 40 items for The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, ed. by Mary Beth Norton (2 vols.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 2:1196-98.

“Battle of the Alamo,” Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Barbara A. Tenenbaum, ed. (5 vols.; New York: Scribner's, 1996)1:38.

"The Cart War" in The New Handbook of Texas. (6 vols., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996) 1: 1003.

"Fray Marcos de Niza" in ibid., vol. 4: 1022.

"Richard Kern” and “Fray Marcos” for the Encyclopedia of the American West, Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, eds. (New York : Macmillan, 1996), vol. 2: 815; vol. 3: 937.

Ed. and trans., with Andrés Tijerina, "The State of Coahuila and Texas in 1824: The Report of Governor Rafael Gonzales." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100 (Oct. 1996):187-204.

“Conflicts and Accommodations: Hispanic and Anglo-American Borders in Historical Perspective, 1670-1853,” Journal of the Southwest (Spring 1997):1-32.

Translated as "Conflictos y acuerdos: las fronteras hispanomexicanas y angloamericanas en su perspectiva histórica(1670-1853)," in Encuentro en la frontera: mexicanos y norteamericanos en un espacio común, Manuel Ceballos Ramírez, ed. (Mexico: Colegio de Mexico et al., 2001), 55-89.

"The Spanish Moment in the Pacific Northwest," in Terra Pacifica: People and Place in the Northwest States and Western Canada, Paul Hirt, ed., Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1998), 3-24.

“The Spanish Colonies,” American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History, John Mack Faragher, ed. (New York: Henry Holt, 1998), 877.

“Borbones y bárbaros. Centro y periferia en la reformulación de la política de España hacia los indígenas no sometidos.” Anuario del IEHS [Instituto de Estudios Históricos, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Tandil], 13 (1998): 147-71, translation by Aníbal Minnucci.

"Hubert Howe Bancroft," American National Biography (24 vols.; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 2:99-100.

“Refighting the Alamo: Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution,” which first appeared in Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest: Essays by David J. Weber (1988) was reprinted in Zaragosa Vargas, ed., Major Problems in Mexican American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999) 106-112.

“From the Editor” and “The Spanish Borderlands of North America: A Historiography, ” Organization of American Historians’ Magazine of History, 14 (Summer 2000): 3-4 & 5-11.

“Indians, Spanish Missionaries, and the Contest for Sacred Space in Southwestern America,” on a CD ROM, Espacios Sagrados/Sacred Space: Exhibit Book and Classroom Resources in Spanish & English. Dallas: Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, 2000.

“Bourbons and Bárbaros: Center and Periphery in the Reshaping of Spanish Indian Policy,” in Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the New World, 1500-1800. eds. Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, 79-103. New York: Routledge, 2002.

"Readers, Writers and the Meaning of the Spanish Frontier in North America," Colonial Encounters: Essays in Early American History and Culture, ed. Hans-Jűrgen Grabbe (Universitätsverlag WINTER Heidelberg, 2003): 89-107

“The Spanish Borderlands, Historiography Redux,” The History Teacher 39 (November 2005): 43-56.

“Santa Barbara’s Presidio in Imperial Perspective: Citadel and Theater Set,” Boletín. The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, 22, no. 1 (2006):4-21.

“Santa Fe,” in Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings, James C. Kelly and Barbara Clark Smith, eds. (Washington: Smithsonian Books, 2007): 134-64.

“España en América del Norte a finales del Siglo XVIII: Políticas innovadoras y pérdidas inevitables,” in La ilustración española en la independencia de los Estados Unidos, Gonzalo Anes and Eduardo Garrigues, eds. (Madrid: Marciel Pons, 2007): 161-79.

Popular Articles

"Mexico: So Far From God, So Near the U.S.--And So Rich," Los Angeles Times, Opinion, January 14, 1979, written on request and reprinted on the op-ed page in the Austin American-Statesman, January 28, 1979 (entitled "Mexico Oil Clout May Alter Image of 'Immigrants,'"); Dallas Times Herald, January 28, 1979 (entitled "A History Lesson: Complaints of U.S. Attitudes Shape Mexican Oil Policy,"); Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1979 (entitled "Myths and Stereotypes Hurt: Mexicans, Mexican-Americans want their role, history understood,"); and elsewhere.

"U.S. Record of Intervention not a Happy One," Dallas Morning News, Sunday, February 28, 1982, op-ed.

"Remember the Alamo, Not Myth," New York Times, March 22, 1986, op-ed. Reprinted in a number of publications.

"Nicaragua Ten Years After the Revolution," Dallas Times Herald, July 18, 1989, A-4. Short version, "U.S. Meddling in Nicaragua Serves No One," Atlanta Constitution, July 19, 1989, op-ed.

"Our Hispanic Past: A Fuzzy View Persists," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 1993, A-44.

“The Secret Lives of Professors,” SMU Magazine (Fall 1995): 31-33.

Reviews

Author of over 100 reviews of books dealing with the history of the Western United States and Mexico. Those reviews have appeared in: American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Economic Geography, Ethnohistory, The Public Historian, Pacific Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, Slavic Review, Church History, The Public Historian, Western Historical Quarterly, The American West, Journal of the West, William and Mary Quarterly, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Arizona and the West, Journal of Arizona History, Montana Magazine, Colorado Magazine, Great Plains Quarterly, East Texas Historical Journal, West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, Military History of the Southwest, Catholic Southwest, El Palacio, New Mexico Historical Review, Southern California Quarterly, California Historical Quarterly, The New Scholar, Lingua Franca, Dallas Morning News, New York Times Book Review.

In addition, served as book review editor of the Journal of San Diego History, 1971-1976, contributing book notes and occasional reviews.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING HONORS:

(Fellowships are listed under a separate heading; book awards appear with book titles)

Along with my wife, Carol, named a Danforth Associate, an award given in recognition of bringing human values to teaching, 1973.

Outstanding Educators of America, 1973 (one of four professors named from San Diego State that year).

Herbert E. Bolton Award in Spanish Borderlands History, 1980, for the best manuscript on the borderlands submitted to the Western Historical Quarterly in the previous two years.

Third David E. Miller Lecture, University of Utah, April 1981.

Article in the July 1981 New Mexico Historical Review chosen as best article to appear in that volume of the journal, and nominated for the Ray Allen Billington Award (NMHR 58 (January 1983):55).

Southwest Conference Humanities Lecturer, 1982-83.

Elected to membership in the Academia Mexicana de la Historia, 1983- (one of six scholars from the United States invited to membership as of that year)

Elected to membership in the Texas Institute of Letters, 1984.

Paul F. Sharp Lecture, University of Oklahoma, March 1984.

Lifetime Fellow (1 of 60) of the Texas State Historical Association, 1985.

United Methodist University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, 1986.

Elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians, 1986 (membership in the Society, founded in 1939 to promote literary distinction and scholarly merit in historical writing, is limited to 200 Fellows).

Calvin Horn Lectures, University of New Mexico, October 1987.

Margareta Deschner Teaching Award, SMU Women's Studies Council, 1988.

Honorary President, 8th Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, 1990.

Outstanding Achievement Award, Alumni Association, State University of New York, Fredonia,. 1990

President, Western History Association, 1990-1991.

Barnard Lecture, University of Tulsa, 1992.

Prim Lecture, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 1993.

Pettyjohn Lecture, Washington State University, 1994.

Norman Lecture, Colorado College, 1994.

Whitsett Lecture, California State University, Northridge, 1994.

Charles Griffin Lecture, Vassar College, 1994

A four-part PBS program, The U.S-Mexican War (1846-1848), produced by KERA in Dallas, to which I was one of the principal academic advisors, aired in autumn 1998 and won a an Emmy in 1999.

Elected to honorary membership in SMU’s Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Summer 2001.

Elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society, October 2001.

Plenary Address to the 49^th annual meeting of the German American Studies Association, Wittenberg, Germany, May 24, 2002.

Lyon G. Tyler Lecturer, College of William and Mary, Nov. 1, 2002.

Carl Becker Lecturer (3 lectures), Cornell, Feb. 26-28, 2003.

Named to the Real Orden de Isabel la Católica by the King of Spain, Juan Carlos (the Spanish equivalent of a knighthood). May 2003.

Opening honorary lecture in the symposium: “Las fronteras inter-étnicas en América. Temas, fuentes, y teorías (siglos XV al XIX).”   51^st International Congress of Americanistas, Santiago, Chile, July 14, 2003.

The Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures, Baylor University, March 8 & 9, 2004.

Merrick-Travis Lecture, University of Oklahoma, September 16, 2004.

The Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca (the Order of the Aztec Eagle), the highest award the Mexican government bestows on foreign nationals. 2005.

Nominated to membership in PEN American Center, 2006.

Elected to the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, May 2006-April 2009.

Elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007.

Elected Vice President of the Professional Division of the American Historical Association, 2008-2010.

Lon Tinkle Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2008.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY OFFICES:

Chairman, San Diego Historical Society's 6th and 7th Annual Institute of History, December 1973, December 1974, and member of the Institute Committee 1968-76.

Program Chairman, 11th Annual Convention of the Congress of History of San Diego County, March 1975.

Faculty Advisory Board, The New Scholar: A Journal of Graduate Studies, published at San Diego State, 1968-1973.

Board of Directors, San Diego Historical Society, 1972-1974; 1975 -1978.

Chairman, Board of Editorial Consultants, and Book Review Editor, Journal of San Diego History, 1971-1976. Board of Editorial Consultants, 1976 to present.

Mayor's Science Resources Panel of San Diego's Quality of Life Board, 1973, 1974, 1975.

Board of Editors, Western Historical Quarterly, 1975-1980.

Board of Editorial Consultants, New Mexico Historical Review, 1977-1985.

Board of Editorial Consultants, Meyibó, 1977 to present.

Co-Founder (1977) and Sheriff (1978) of the Dallas Corral of Westerners.

Board of Trustees, DeGolyer Foundation, 1978 to present.

Kit Carson Memorial Foundation Advisory Board, Taos, New Mexico, 1979-1985.

Oscar O. Winther Awards Committee, Western History Association, 1980, 1981. Chair, 1982.

Board of Editorial Consultants, California Historical Quarterly, 1980 to December 31, 1986.

Advisory Board, Texas Humanities Resource Center, 1980-83.

Coeditor, with Howard R. Lamar, Martin Ridge, William Cronon of the Histories of the American Frontier Series, 1982-present).

Herbert E. Bolton Award Committee of the Western Historical Quarterly, 1982-present).

Western History Association Program Committee, 1983.

National Council of Advisors, Institute of the American West, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1983-84).

President, Friends of Woodrow Wilson High School, 1983-1986.

Western History Association Nominating Committee, 1983. Chair, 1984.

Board of Editors, SMU Press, 1983-present.

Board of Editors, Southwest Review, 1983-present.

Consultant, Project 150, 1984-85.

Guest Curator, Richard Kern Exhibit, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (with showings in Santa Fe and Denver), 1984-85.

Texas State Historical Association Membership Chairman, 1984-85.

Board of Advisory Editors, Handbook of Texas, 1985-

American Historical Association, Committee for the Celebration of the Columbus Quincentenary, 1985-92.

American Historical Association Program Committee, 1986.

Western History Association, Liaison Committee with Montana Magazine, 1985-1987.

Consultant, Dallas Public Library, NEH-funded project, “Mexican Legacy in Texas,” 1985-86.

Editorial Board, New Mexico Historical Review, 1986-1992.

Editorial Board, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Jan. 1, 1986-Jan. 1, 1989.

Council Member, Association of Borderlands Scholars, Jan. 1, 1986-Jan. 1, 1989.

Conference on Latin American History, 1986 Conference Prize Committee.

Chair, Texas Institute of Letters Prize Committee (Friends of Dallas Public Library Award), 1986.

Conference on Latin American History, General Committee, 1987-89.

Journal of the Southwest, Editorial Board, 1987-1989, 1990-?.

Journal of Arizona History, Board of Editorial Consultants, 1987-89.

Council, Western History Association, 1987-89.

XII Travelers Commission, El Paso, Texas, 1988-?.

Fellows Committee, Texas State Historical Association, 1988, 1989 (chair)

Steering Committee, Spanish Missionary Heritage of the U. S. Symposium, National Park Service, 1989-91.

Texas Council for the Humanities, 1989-92 (resigned March 1989 to administer a program in Spain).

Vice-President, Western History Association, 1989-1990.

President, Western History Association, 1990-1991.

President, 8th Conference of North American and Mexican Historians, 1990.

Texas Institute of Letters Prize Committee (Friends of Dallas Public Library Award), 1990.

Co-editor, with Carla Rahn Phillips, of four-pamphlet series, Essays on the Columbian Encounter, American Historical Association, Teaching Division, 1991-1992.

Chairman, Board of Editors, SMU Press, 1993-1997.

Chair, Texas Institute of Letters Prize Committee (Carr P. Collins Award), 1993.

American Historical Association Prize Committee (Premio del Rey, for the best book in English on early Spanish History), 1994-97.

Organization of American Historians Prize Committee (Ray Allen Billington Prize, for the best book on the American frontier), 1993-95.

Board of Senior Editors, The Americas, July 1994-April 2003.

Board of Editors, Revista de Indias [Madrid], 1994-present.

Prize Committee: Bolton-Kinnaird Award, Western History Association, 1994-97, for best article on the Spanish borderlands

Co-editor with David Farmer of the DeGolyer Library Series, books published from the manuscript holdings of the DeGolyer Library, SMU, 1994-.

Council, Texas Institute of Letters, April 1994-April 1996; April 1996-April 1998.

Council, Institute for Early American History, July 1994-June 1997.

Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 1995 through 2000.

Texas Council for the Humanities, two terms, Jan. 1997-Dec. 2003. Resigned in Dec. 2001 to fulfill responsibilities at SMU

Co-editor with David Farmer of The Library of Texas, a series of classic works on Texas history, published by the DeGolyer Library and the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU, 1997- present

Chairman, Society of American Historians’ Parkman Prize Committee, 1999

Search committee to find a new director of the American Historical Association., 1999

Program co-chair of the Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1999.

Board of Directors, Texas State Historical Society, 1999-2002.

Comité Asesor de “Colección Monografías,” Sociedad Argentina de Antropología, Buenos Aires, 1998-?

Committee on the J. Franklin Jameson Award in Editorial Achievement, awarded quinquennially by the American Historical Association, 2000.

Texas State Historical Association’s New Handbook of Texas Advisory Committee, 2000.

Editorial Board, Common-place, 2000-05.

Chair, Angie Debo Prize Committee (for the best book published by the University of Oklahoma Press), 2000-2001.

Chair, Texas State Historical Association’s Book Award Committee, 2001-02.

Comité de Consultores, Atekna, Revista del CICEHP, Puerto Madryn, Argentina, 2001-?

Advisory Board, Western Americana Series, Yale University Press, 2001-?

Consejo Asesor (Advisory Board), Anuario de Estudios Americanos [Sevilla], 2002-?

Advisory Board, H-NET listserv, H-Borderlands, 2006-?

Consejo Asesor (Advisory Board), for a monograph series, “Colección Universos Americanos,” Published by the Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Seville, 2007-2013.

Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, May 2006-April 2009.

Advisory Board, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 2008-2009.

Vice President of the Professional Division of the American Historical Association, 2008-2011.

Ex oficio voting member of the Board of Directors, National History Center.

MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Over a career that exceeds forty years, this category has become unwieldy on my vita. Suffice it to say that it includes delivering papers, offering commentaries, and chairing panels at numerous scholarly meetings; evaluating manuscripts for many university presses, scholarly journals, and government agencies; historical consulting for public and private foundations, attorneys, and film makers; and giving banquet and keynote addresses and public lectures and seminars from Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico to the south, to Johns Hopkins, NYU, University of Virginia, William & Mary, and Yale in the East, to the University of Washington, Berkeley, Stanford, UCD, UCLA and UCSD in the Far West, and at many institutions in between the two coasts, from Sul Ross in Alpine, Texas, to the University of Chicago. I have also lectured or conducted seminars at several institutions in Spain.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

John F. Kennedy Fellow, University of New Mexico, 1966-67

Fulbright-Hays Lecturer, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1970

National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Humanist Fellow, 1974-1975

American Philosophical Society grant, Summer 1975

Huntington Library Fellow, Summer 1975

American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, Spring 1980

National Endowment for the Humanities, award to direct a Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1986

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1986-87, with financial support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship, 1990- 91

National Endowment for the Humanities, award to direct a Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1993

Huntington Library, Times Mirror Distinguished Fellow, 2000- 2001

Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, and Beinecke Library, Yale University, Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Senior Fellow, 2007- 08

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David Weber receives membership in the Real Orden de Isabel la Católica by the King of Spain, Juan Carlos. May 2003

David Weber receives the medal of the Aguila Azteca from Carlos Garcia de Alba Zepeda, the General Consul of Mexico in Dallas, on behalf of the Government of Mexico.