Andrés Reséndez


Andrés Reséndez is a Mexican historian at the University of California, Davis. His specialties are Mexican history, early exploration and colonization of the Americas, and borderlands history.
In 2017, Reséndez won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America.

Early life

Reséndez was born in Mexico City.

Education and career

Reséndez received his Bachelor's degree in International relations in el Colegio de México in 1992. He went into politics and also worked as a consultant for National Geographic, serving to make historical soap operas more historically accurate, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In 1997, he received his Ph. D. in history at the University of Chicago. He went on to teach at Yale University and University of Helsinki before becoming faculty at the University of California, Davis.

Books