Dr. Andie Reid

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(657) 278-8542

PLS 665

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Andie Reid, Ph.D.

Specializations

  • U.S. and Latin American History
  • Borderlands
  • Race and Gender
  • Medicine

Degrees

  • PhD, U.S. and Latin American History, University of Southern California, 2013
  • Dissertation: “Medics of the Soul and the Body: Sickness and Death in Alta California, 1769-1850”
  • MA, U.S. and Latin American History, University of Southern California, 2009
  • MLIS, Library and Information Studies, San Jose State University, California, 2005
  • BA, Studio Art, California State University, Los Angeles, 1999

Publications

  • “The Case of Maria Faustina Trejo: Fluid Racial Categories in Jalisco’s Hinterland, 1781-1805,” chapter in edited volume At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America (University of New Mexico Press, April 2023).
  • “Looking North: Writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the Present.” Edited by John J. Hassett and Braulio Muñoz. Reviewed in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Spring 2016).
  • Reid, A.M. and Hackel, S.W. “Transforming an Eighteenth-Century Archive into a Twenty-First-Century Database: The Early California Population Project.” History Compass 5, no. 3 (April 2007): 1013-1025.

Presentations

  • Panelist, UCI Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Presentation of At the Heart of the Borderlands: Africans and Afro-descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America, UC Irvine, February 1, 2024.
  • Moderator, USC-Early Modern Studies Institute’s 20th Anniversary Conference at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, October 13-14, 2023.
  • Moderator, Book Launch for the 2018 Conference of the Western Association of Women Historians, Davis, CA, April 26, 2018.
  • Panelist, “Happily Extracted”: Franciscan Missionaries’ Knowledge and Use of Fetal Extractions in the Spanish and Mexican Missions of California,” Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians’ 49th Conference, San Diego, CA, April 29, 2017.
  • Panelist, “Gendered Borderlands,” hosted by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, October 10, 2015.
  • Moderator, “Junípero Serra: Context and Representation 1713 to 2013” at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, September 21, 2013.
  • Panelist, “‘Medics of the Soul and the Body:’ Baptismal Cesarean Operations in the Alta California Missions.” Paper presented at Commun(icat)ing Bodies: Body & Religion Conference, Graz, Austria, February 16, 2012.
  • Panelist, “A Change of Airs: Missionaries, Sickness and Environment in Alta California.” Paper presented at the Graduate Conference on the History of the Body, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 22, 2011.
  • Presenter, “The Early California Population Project.” Presentation at the Eighth Annual Conference of the National Indian Justice Center, Garden Grove, CA, July 2007.
  • Presenter, “Documenting Life in Early California, 1769-1850: The Early California Population Project.” Paper copresented with Steve Hackel at the Annual General Meeting of the Society of California Archivists, San Francisco, CA, April 2006.