Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez 
Department of History
Texas State University - San Marcos
601 University Drive
Taylor Murphy Bldg. #221
San Marcos, TX78666

EDUCATION:

• 2006                Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California – Los Angeles

• 2001                M.A. in Anthropology, University of California – Los Angeles

• 1999                Diploma in Ancient Hispania, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

• 1998                Diploma in Internet for Teachers and Researchers, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

• 1997                Diploma in Computer Science for History Teachers, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain

• 1995                Diploma in Librarianship and Information Science, Fundación Univeristaria San Pablo, Madrid, Spain

• 1995                Diploma in Forensic Anthropology, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

• 1992                Certificate of Pedagogic Competence, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

• 1991                Licenciatura (5 year degree) in Ancient History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

• 1989                Diplomatura (3 year degree) in Geography and History, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Ethnohistory.  Plains Indians.  Culture Contact.  Comparative Indigenous Studies.  Political Economy.  Identity.  Violence and Warfare.  Spanish Borderlands. 
US West.  Colonial Latin America.  Spain 

SCHOLARLY PRODUCTION:

Ph.D. Dissertation -

• 2006              Captivity and Adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875.  University of California, Los Angeles

Publications -

• 2006               “Review of Comanche Society: Before the Reservation, by Gerald Betty,” Plains Anthropologist 197:107-108.

• 2005                “Review of Three Nations, One Place: A Comparative Ethnohistory of Social Change Among the Comanches and Hasinais During Spain’s Colonial Era, 1689-1821, by Martha McCollough,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 29(4): 165-167

• 2004                “Review of Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family, by Jo E. P. Powell,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 27(2): 118-121

Presentations -

• 2007                “Comanche Raiding, Captive Taking, and Population Decline.” Paper presented at the Plains Anthropology Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, October 12, 2007.

• 2006                “Yutaibo: Contemporary Comanche Indians’ Views of Hispanics.”  Paper presented at the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference in San Marcos, Texas, November 2, 2006.

• 2006                “Abrupt Encounters and Scholarly Dilemmas: Captivity and Its Manifold Representations.”  Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Williamsburg, Virginia, November 4, 2006

• 2005                “Más allá de Río Grande: Hispanic Captives among the Comanche Indians.”  Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 17, 2005

• 2004                “Spanish Terminology on (the Comanche) Indians.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Chicago, October 30, 2004

M.A. Thesis -

• 2001                The Comanche-Spanish Treaty of 1786 in Ethnohistorical Perspective. University of California, Los Angeles

Works submitted or in-progress -

• accepted          “Review of El Gran Norte de México: Una frontera imperial en la Nueva España (1540-1820), by Alfredo Jiménez,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly

• accepted          “Review of Native Insurgencies and the Genocidal Impulse in the Americas, by Nicholas A. Robins,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly

• In progress       Captivity and Adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875. Book.

• In progress       “Comanche Raiding, Captive Taking, and Population Decline.”  Paper.

• In progress       “Comanche Motivations for Capturing and Adopting Outsiders.”  Paper.

• In progress       “A Paradigm of Captivity: Comanche Captivity and Adoption Patterns in Cross-Cultural Perspective.”  Paper.

• In progress       Comanche Historical Demography.  Book (co-written with Russell Thornton)

PEER REVIEWER:

• American Indian Culture and Research Journal

• Colonial Latin American Historical Review

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

• 2005                Personal interviews with Comanche and Hispanic people in Oklahoma and New Mexico

• 2005                Archival research at the Archivo Histórico Muncipal de Monterrey and the Archivo General del Estado de Nuevo León, both of them in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico; the Archivo General del Estado de Durango, in Durango, Mexico; the Library of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia; the New Mexico State Record Center and Archives, in Santa Fe, New Mexico

• 2004                Archival research at: the Archivo General y Público de la Nación, and the Archivo de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, in Mexico City, Mexico; the Archivo Histórico Nacional, the Biblioteca Nacional, the Biblioteca Real, the Servicio Geográfico Militar, and the Archivo General Militar, all of them in Madrid, Spain; the Centre des Archives d’Outre-Mer, in Aix-en-Provence, and the Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, in Paris, both of them in France; the Newberry Library, in Chicago; the Archivo General del Estado de Coahuila, in Ramos Arizpe, and the Archivo Municipal de Saltillo, in Saltillo, both of them in the state of Coahuila, Mexico

• 2003                Archival research at the Documentary Relations of the Southwest, in the Arizona State Museum of the University of Arizona at Tucson; the New Mexico State Record Center and Archives, in Santa Fe; the Oklahoma Historical Society, in Oklahoma City; the Archivo General y Público de la Nación, and the Archivo de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, in Mexico City, Mexico

• 2002                Archival research at the Archivo General de Indias, in Seville, Spain.

• 2000                Archival research at the Archivo General de Simancas, in Simancas, province of Valladolid, Spain

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE:

• 1996                Excavation of the Chao Samartín site (Iron Age, Roman), Grandas de Salime, Asturias, Spain

• 1995-1996        Surveys in the townships of Córdoba and Obejo, Córdoba, Spain
  Excavation of the Cerro Muriano site (Roman), Córdoba, Spain.

• 1995                Surveys in the province of Cuenca, Spain
                         Surveys in the township of Fuenllana, Ciudad Real, Spain

• 1994-1995        Excavation of the Campa Torres site (Iron Age, Roman), Gijón, Asturias, Spain
  Excavation of the Cimadevilla site (Roman, Medieval), Gijón, Asturias, Spain

• 1990                Surveys in the province of Madrid, Spain
                         Excavation of the Arroyo Manzanas site (Bronze Age, Iron Age), Las Herencias, Toledo, Spain

TEACHING COMPETENCIES:

• Specialized courses on Native Americans: Plains Indians Culture and History, Native American-European Interaction in the Spanish Borderlands, Indians in Film

• Specialized courses in sociocultural anthropology: Culture Contact, Ethnohistory, Anthropology of Colonialism, Anthropology of Violence, Political Economy, Identity

• Specialized courses in history: Spanish Borderlands, Early Modern Spain

• Introductory/survey courses in Anthropology (4 subfields), Native American Studies, Spanish Borderlands, Ancient History, the history and culture of Spain and Colonial Latin America

• Spanish 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• Spring 2007       Lecturer, departments of History and Modern Languages, Texas State University-San Marcos.  Courses:

• History 5309D, Early Modern Spain (graduate seminar)

• History 3329, Spanish Borderlands

• Spanish 3308, Advanced Spanish Composition

• Fall 2006           Lecturer, departments of History and Modern Languages, Texas State University-San Marcos.  Courses:
  History 4318O, History of Modern Spain
  History 4371, American Indian History
  Spanish 3371, Spanish American Civilization

• Spring 2006       Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University – Fullerton.  Course:
  Spanish 315, Introduction to Spanish Civilization. 

• 2003-2004         Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of California – Los Angeles.  Courses:

• Anthropology 130, Study of Culture

• Anthropology M140, Language in Culture

• 2000-2002         Teaching Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of California – Los Angeles.  Courses:

• Anthropology 9, Culture and Society

• Anthropology 33, Culture and Communication

• 1999-2000         Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California – Los Angeles.  Courses:
  Spanish 1, Elementary Spanish                                      
  Spanish 2, Elementary Spanish                                           

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

• 2000-2001         Research assistant to Professor Russell Thornton in research on the Rosebud Reservation Lakota Winter Count, as a visiting student at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

• 1999                 Training in Electronic Topography, INEM, Gijón, Spain

• 1998                 Certificate of French proficiency, Escuela Nacional de Idiomas, Gijón, Spain
  Training in Field Topography, INEM, Gijón, Spain

• 1997                 Certificate of English proficiency, Escuela Nacional de Idiomas, Gijón, Spain

• 1995                 Museum training in inventory classification of archaeological and paleoanthropological materials, and forensic diagnosis of human bones, Departamento de Antropología Física, Museo Etnológico Nacional, Madrid, Spain

•                         Training in archaeological drawing, Madrid, Spain

• 1994                 Training in Design and Management of Documentary Data Bases, AABADOM (“Asturian Association of Librarians, Archivists, Documentation Professionals and Museum Professionals”), Oviedo, Spain

• 1989-1990         Research assistant to Professor Jacobo de Gracia in the creation of a bibliographic database for the Archaeology Seminar, Departmento de Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

AWARDS:

• 2007-2008         Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America, Southern Methodist University

• 2005-2006         UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship

• 2004-2005         Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant

•                         UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant

• American Philosophical Society - Philips Fund Grant

• American Philosophical Society Library Research Fellowship

• Newberry Library Research Fellowship

• UCLA Regents Registration Fees Grant

• UCLA Regents Stipend

• 2003-2004         American Philosophical Society - Philips Fund Grant

• UCLA Institute of American Cultures Research Grant

• UCLA Regents Stipend

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Registration Fees Grants

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Nonresident Tuition Grant

• 2002-2003         UCLA Institute of American Cultures Predoctoral Fellowship

• UCLA Regents Research Stipend

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Nonresident Tuition Grant

• UCLA Institute of American Cultures Research Grant

• 2001-2002         UCLA Department of Anthropology Registration Fees Grants

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Nonresident Tuition Grant

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Stipend

• 2000-2001         Smithsonian Institution Visiting Student at the National Museum of Natural History Award

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Nonresident Tuition Grants

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Registration Fees Grants

• 1999-2000         UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Nonresident Tuition Grants

• UCLA Department of Anthropology Registration Fees Grants

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

• American Anthropological Association

• American Society for Ethnohistory

• American Ethnological Society

• Society for Cultural Anthropology

• Western History Association

LANGUAGES:

• Native:                         Spanish, Asturian

• Fluent:                         English, French

• Reading proficiency:      Portuguese, Italian, Galician, Catalan

• Beginner:                     German

Last updated October 19, 2007.