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Announcing the 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium
On Borders of Love and Power:
Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West
Presenters
and paper titles:
Ties
that Bind: Defining Family Across Time, Across Cultures
"Kinship, Family and Nation in the Spanish and Mexican
Borderlands: A Cultural Approach”
Ramón Gutiérrez,
University of Chicago
“‘He Had Promised to Treat Her with Love and Tenderness
but in All of This He Had Failed’: Coupling and
Uncoupling in Eighteenth Century Pueblo Communities”
Tracy Brown,
Central Michigan University
"The Paradox of Compadrazgo: Kinship and Native
Communities in Alta California, 1769-1846"
Erika Pérez,
University of California Los Angeles
Jagged Prospects: Children on the Edge of Empire
“Becoming Comanches: The Incorporation of Outsiders into
Comanche Families and Kinship Networks, 1820-1900”
Joaquín Rivaya-Martinez,
Texas State University, San Marcos
“Territorial Bonds: Indenture and Affection in
Intercultural Arizona”
Katrina Jagodinsky,
University of Arizona
“Considering Our Children: Mixed-Race Family
Strategies in the Post-1848 West”
Anne Hyde, Colorado
College
La Familia
on Trial: Contesting the Mexican American Family
"Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: Probating the Avila
Estate in Frontier California"
Donna C. Schuele,
University of California, Irvine
“Borderlands/La Familia: Latina/o Homes and Racial Order
in the Early Twentieth Century”
Pablo Mitchell,
Oberlin College
“'Who has a greater job than a mother?': Defining
Mexican Motherhood on the U.S.-Mexico Border in the
1920s and 1930s”
Monica Perales,
University of Houston
Forging
Kinship: Family, Historical Memory and Degrees of
Connection
“‘Seeking the Incalculable Benefit of a Faithful,
Patient Man and Wife’:' Married Employees in the Federal
Indian Service”
Cathleen Cahill,
University of New Mexico
“Breaking and Remaking Families: The Fostering and
Adoption of Native American Children in Non-Native
Families in the American West before World War II"
Margaret Jacobs,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: ‘The Family,’
‘The West,’ and Their Chroniclers”
Susan Lee Johnson,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Symposium Co-organizers:
Crista DeLuzio
Southern Methodist University
David Wallace Adams
Cleveland State University
Co-sponsored
by
The William
P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern
Methodist University
The Center for the Southwest at the University of New
Mexico and
The
Institute for the Study of the American West at the
Autry National Center
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