David Rex Galindo
Department of History
Stephen F. Austin State University
PO Box 13013, SFA Station
Nacogdoches TX 75962
Email: [email protected]
Office Tel: 936-468-2452
Education
Ph.D., History, 2010
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Dissertation: “Propaganda Fide: Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain.”
Dissertation Committee: David J. Weber and Peter J. Bakewell (co-Chairs), Edward F.
Countryman, and Martin A. Nesvig.
Passed qualifying exams, Feb. 2007, with honors.
D.E.A. , History of Early Modern Spain (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados), 2006
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
M. A., North-American Studies, 2004
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
M. E. and B.S., Industrial Engineering (specializing in Mechanical Engineering), 1998.
Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Teaching
Stephen F. Austin State University, 2012History of Latin America (1830 to Present)
The United States, 1000-1877
Southern Methodist University, 2008-2012
Latin America in the Modern Era
Latin America in the Colonial Period
History of the United States to 1877
Elementary Spanish 1401, 1402
Intermediate Spanish 2302
Teaching Fields
Borderlands, Latin American History, Mexican History, United States History, Spanish History,
comparative history, colonialism.
Research Interests
Borderlands, Colonial Latin American History, Early North America, Colonialism in the
Americas, social history of religion, Early Modern Spain, comparative history, sexuality.
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Publications
Articles
“Worse than Pagans, Heretics, and the Devil: Franciscan Missions and the Re-Christianization of
Late Colonial Mexico.” Revise and resubmit.
“Conferences on Theology and Indian Languages: A Program to Train Missionaries in New
Spain.” In From La Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan
Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands. Edited by Timothy J. Johnson and Gert Melville
(Berkeley, CA: Academy of American Franciscan History), forthcoming.
“Franciscanos e indios en la Alta California española, 1769-1822.” [Franciscans and Indians in
Spanish Alta California, 1769-1822] Espacio, Tiempo y Forma 20 (2007), 157-170.
Book Reviews
Book Review of “Magnus Lundberg. Church Life between the Metropolitan and the Local:
Parishes, Parishioners, and Parish Priests in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.” Colonial Latin
American Historical Review, forthcoming.
Book Review of “Donald E. Chipman. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Great Pedestrian of
North and South America.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, forthcoming.
Book Review of “The Inquisition in Colonial Latin America: Selected Writings of Richard E.
Greenleaf. Edited by James D. Riley.” New Mexico Historical Review 86, 4 (Fall 2011), 528-9.
Book Review of “Sarah Bronwen Horton. The Santa Fe Fiesta, Reinvented: Staking EthnoNationalist Claims to a Disappearing Homeland.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 115, 1,
(July 2011), 101-2.
Book Review of “Robert C. Galgano. Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the SeventeenthCentury Missions of Florida and New Mexico.” Montanta: The Magazine of Western History 56,
4 (Winter 2006), 89-90.
Other publications
Catalogue of Exhibit “El Camino Real de los Tejas: Past & Present,” June 16-July 3, 2011,
Organized by the Consulate General of Spain in Houston and Rice University, 1-25.
Work in Progress
Monograph: “‘To Sin no More’: Franciscan Missionaries and the Conversion of the Hispanic
World.” (Manuscript will first be reviewed by Stanford University Press and the American
Academy of Franciscan History, for a series jointly published by the two presses.)
Article: “First Men, Then Christians: A Historical, Anthropological, and Theological Approach
to Forced Conversions from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century.”
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
National
 Conference on Latin American History, Lewis Hanke Post-Doctoral Award, 2011
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Harvard University, Short-Term Research Grant in Atlantic History, 2011
Texas State Historical Association, John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas
History, 2011
Academy of American Franciscan History, Berkeley, Dissertation Fellowship, 2007-2008
Southern Methodist University
 Department of World Languages and Literatures, Southern Methodist University, Travel
Grant, 2011
 Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University, Doctoral Fellowship,
2004-2007, 2008-2010
 Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Interdisciplinary
Research Grant, Summers 2005-2009
 Office of the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Southern Methodist University,
Research and Travel Grant, Springs 2007, 2008, 2010
University of Alcalá, Spain
 Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Friends of Thoreau Fellowship, 2003
Invited Lectures and Events
“Who Do They Want To Save?: Franciscan Missionary Motivations in New Spain's Northern
Borderlands.” Borderlands Seminar, University of Southern California-Huntington Early Modern
Studies Institute, Los Angeles, May 12, 2012.
Presentation of Exhibit “El Camino Real de los Tejas: Past and Origins.” Saint Edward’s
University, Austin, September 20-21, 2011.
Moderator, Symposium/Historical Seminar on El Camino Real de los Tejas: “Past: Origins and
Development of El Camino Real de los Tejas from the 16th to 19th Century,” Consulate General
of Spain, Rice University, Houston, June 17, 2011.
“Long Live the King: New Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy in the age of Carlos IV.”
Exhibition Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: The Collection of Charles IV of Spain,
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, May 27, 2010.
“‘Para Servir a Dios’: Franciscan Missionaries and the Propagation of the Faith in the Northern
Frontiers of New Spain, 1530s-1820s.” Symposium The Lady in Blue: Sor María de Jesús de
Ágreda: A University of New Mexico Homage, Albuquerque, April 24, 2009.
Presentations
“The Apostle of the Indians: Fray Antonio Margil de Jesús, History, and Hagiography on the
Texas Borderlands.” Paper to be presented at The Texas State Historical Association, March
2013.
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“"The Superlative Sin of All Sins": Sexuality and the Franciscan Missionary Discourses in
Eighteenth-Century New Spain.” Paper to be presented at The Conference on Latin American
History, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013.
Chair and presenter: “Franciscan Missionary Recruitment to New Spain’s Northeastern
Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century,” in “Environment, Religion, and Ethnicity in New
Spain's Northern Borderlands.” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Park City,
Utah, March 29, 2012.
“Preaching Loyalty: Mass Media, Religion, and the Political Discourse in Bourbon Mexico.”
Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 5, 2012.
“First Men, Then Christians: A Historical, Anthropological, and Theological Approach to Forced
Conversion from Medieval Europe to New Spain” Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain
Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 7, 2011.
“Conferences on Theology and Indian Languages: A Program to Train Missionaries in New
Spain.” From La Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan
Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands, Flagler College, Saint Augustine, Florida, March 2426, 2011.
“Propaganda Fide: Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain, 1680s-1828.” Paper
presented at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Boulder, Colorado, April
9, 2010.
Co-Chair with Dr. Olivia Gall, UNAM, of symposium “Identidad y discriminación étnico-racial
en América Latina: entre la ley y la realidad.” 53rd International Congress of Americanists,
Mexico City, July 23, 2009.
“‘Limpios de toda mala raza’: Los franciscanos ante la diversidad racial en México, 1683-1905.”
Paper presented at the 53rd International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, July 23, 2009.
“‘The Salvation of All Souls’: Franciscan Popular Missions Among the Catholics in New Spain,
1683-1828.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association, New York City, January 4,
2009.
“The Important Business of Their Salvation: Franciscan Missions among Christians in 18thCentury New Spain.” Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American
Studies, Flagstaff, April 10, 2008.
“Educating the Mind, Saving the Soul: Franciscans and their Missionary Training in the Colleges
for the Propagation of the Faith of New Spain, 1683-1830s.” Paper presented at the Colonial
Studies Colloquium, University of New Mexico, March 23, 2007.
“The Empire deficits: Macroeconomic perspectives in the United States and their consequences.”
Research Project, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2002-03.
Service
Fall 2012
World History Curriculum Committee, Stephen F. Austin State University
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2011-present
Partner, Saint Francis and the Americas Project, Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State
University.
2010-present
Researcher and Collaborator, Consulate General of Spain in Houston.
Researcher: “Survey of Spanish Documents for the History of Spanish Texas in Texas Archives,
Libraries, and Collections,” Summer 2010.
Historical Curator of traveling Exhibit “El Camino Real de los Tejas: Past & Present,” organized
by the Consulate General of Spain in Houston, and Rice University, Houston, June 16-July 3,
2011. The exhibit was also held in Galveston, Saint Edward’s University, Austin, and Texas
A&M, College Station.
Discussion Moderator, “Writing a Dissertation” Workshop, Southern Methodist University,
March 2009.
2005-present
Researcher and Collaborator, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist
University.
Other Professional Experiences
1996-2002
Mechanical Engineer: Airbus España S.L., Madrid, Spain; Fordwerke AG, Cologne, Germany;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Sindelfingen-Stuttgart, Germany; Dr. h. c. Ferdinand Porsche AG,
Weissach, Germany; Rücker GmbH, Sindelfingen-Stuttgart, Germany; FASA Renault,
Valladolid, Spain; CAEM Ibérica, Madrid, Spain; CAEM UK, Stoke on Trent, UK.
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association; Conference on Latin American History; Rocky Mountain
Conference on Latin American Studies.
Languages
Spanish (mother tongue), English (excellent), German (medium), French (basic).
References
Peter J. Bakewell
Edward F. Countryman
Martin A. Nesvig
Steven W. Hackel
Cynthia Radding
John R. Chávez
Carlos Martínez Shaw
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