Rick Hendricks
PO Box 3135
Las Cruces, NM 88003Las Cruces, NM 88003-3135
(575) 650-3205
rhend03@comcast.net
Institutions Attended:
1976-77 Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
BA 1977 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
PhD 1985 The University of New Mexico
Areas of Interest:
Latin American colonial and national history, Spanish Borderlands, New Mexico, Spain, and Portugal; Spanish American and Brazilian Literature
Current Research:
Biography of a Spanish priest, Father Antonio Severo Borrajo (1814-1896), in the US-Mexico borderlands
John L. Thomas’s nineteenth-century railroad travel narratives in the western United States and Mexico
Peninsular Spaniards in northern New Spain in the late colonial period
Awards and honors:
2008, New Mexico Book Award, finalist
2006 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award, Historical Society of New Mexico (corecipient with Malcolm Ebright)
2005 Gilberto Espinosa Prize for best article, New Mexico Historical Review (corecipient with Gerald J. Mandell)
2003 Eleanor B. Adams Award for best article, New Mexico Historical Review (corecipient with Malcolm Ebright and Teresa Escudero)
2003 Gilberto Espinosa Prize for best article, New Mexico Historical Review (corecipient with Malcolm Ebright and Teresa Escudero)
2002 Gilberto Espinosa Prize for best article, New Mexico Historical Review (corecipient with Gerald J. Mandell)
2001 Eugene O. Porter Memorial Award for best article, El Paso County Historical Society
2000 Gilberto Espinosa Prize for best article, New Mexico Historical Review (corecipient with Gerald J. Mandell)
2000 Pasajero de Camino Real Award, Doña Ana County Historical Society
1999 Eugene O. Porter Memorial Award for best article, El Paso County Historical Society
1998 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association (Corecipient with W.H. Timmons)
1997 Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award, Historical Society of New Mexico (Corecipient with John P. Wilson)
1995 Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History (given to Vargas Project)
1994 Eugene O. Porter Memorial Award for best article, El Paso County Historical Society
1991 Second Prize, Spain and America in the Quincentennial of the Discovery Award (given to Vargas Project)
1990 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award, Historical Society of New Mexico (given to Vargas Project)
Related work experience:
2006- College Faculty, History Dept., NMSU
2003- Center for Land Grant Studies, Guadalupita, New Mexico
2002- Archives and Special Collections Dept. , NMSU
2002- Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, NMSU
1990-2001 Editor and Coprincipal Investigator, the Vargas Project/Research
Assistant Professor of History, UNM
2001- Historical consultant for Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico
1999- Historical consultant for the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico
1995- Historical consultant for the Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico
1992- Historical consultant for Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Texas
1991-1992 Spanish Colonial Research Specialist, Center for Anthropological Research, New Mexico State University
1988-1989 Associate Editor and Coprincipal Investigator, the Vargas Project/Research Assistant Professor of History
1983-1987 Assistant Editor, the Vargas Project
Teaching experience:
2009 NMSU History 311/544 (WebCT), Colonial Latin America (Spring)
2009NMSU History 312/544 (WebCT), Modern Latin America (Spring)
2009NMSU History 356/557 (WebCT), Mexican Revolution (Spring)
2008NMSU History 311/544(WebCT), Colonial Latin America (Fall)
2008NMSU History 549, Directed Readings in Colonial New Mexico (Summer II)
2008NMSU History 311/544(WebCT), Colonial Latin America (Spring)
2007NMSU History 353/511 (WebCT), Colonial Mexico (Fall)
2007 NMSU History 311/544, Colonial Latin America (Spring)
2006NMSU History 312, Modern Latin America (Fall)
1996UNM History 510, Seminar on the Editing of Historical documents, with John L. Kessell
1993 UNM History 510, Seminar on the Editing of Historical documents, with John L. Kessell
1990 UNM History 320, The Columbian Exchange, with Robert Kern and others
1990 UNM History 510, Spanish Paleography and Archival Methodology, with Meredith D. Dodge
1989 UNM History 510, Seminar on the Editing of Historical documents, with John L. Kessell
1988 UNM History 320, Spanish Paleography and Archival Methodology, with Meredith D. Dodge
1987 UNM History 320, Spanish Paleography and Archival Methodology, with Meredith D. Dodge
1986 UNM History 320, Spanish Paleography and Archival Methodology, with Meredith D. Dodge
1985 UNM History 510, Seminar on the Editing of Historical Documents, with John L. Kessell
Books:
New Mexico in 1801: The Priests Report (Albuquerque: Rio Grande Books, 2008).
Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks. The Witches of Abiquiu, 1756-1766: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaros, and the Devil (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006).
John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, and Larry D. Miller, eds., A Settling of Accounts: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1700-1704 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002).
Rick Hendricks, ed, John B. Colligan, comp., New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, Vol. 2, 1800-93 (Las Cruces: Rio Grande Historical Collections, New Mexico State University Library, 2000).
John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge, and Larry D. Miller, eds., That Disturbances Cease: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1697-1700 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000).
John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, and Meredith D. Dodge, eds., Blood on the Boulders: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-1697 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998) 2 vols.
Rick Hendricks and W.H. Timmons. San Elizario: Spanish Presidio to Texas County Seat (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1998).
Rick Hendricks and John P. Wilson, eds. and trans. The Navajos in 1705: Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996).
Rick Hendricks, ed., John B. Colligan, comp., New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations From the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, Vol. 1, 1760-99 (Las Cruces: Rio Grande Historical Collections, New Mexico State University Library, 1996).
John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, and Meredith D. Dodge, eds., To the Royal Crown Restored: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1693-1694 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995).
Meredith D. Dodge and Rick Hendricks, eds. and trans., Two Hearts, One Soul: Letters from the Condesa de Galve, 1688-1698 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993).
Rick Hendricks, Don Pedro Rodríguez Cubero, Gobernador de Nuevo Méjico, 1697-1703 (Granada: Proyecto Sur de Ediciones/Ayuntamiento de Huéscar, 1993).
John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, and Meredith D. Dodge, eds. Letters from the New World: Correspondence of don Diego de Vargas (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992).
John L. Kessell and Rick Hendricks, eds. By Force of Arms: The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-1693 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992).
John L. Kessell and Rick Hendricks, eds. The Spanish Missions of New Mexico: A Sourcebook. Vol. I: Before 1680 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992).
John L. Kessell and Rick Hendricks, eds. The Spanish Missions of New Mexico: A Sourcebook. Vol. II: After 1680 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1991).
John L. Kessell, ed., Rick Hendricks, asst. ed., Remote Beyond Compare: Letters of don Diego de Vargas to His Family from New Spain and New Mexico, 1675-1706 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989).
Articles and Book Chapters:
"Juan de Oñate, Colonizer, Governor," in Telling New Mexico History: A New State History, edited by Marta Weigle with Frances Levine and Louise Stiver (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009).
"Diego de Vargas, Reconqueror, Governor," in Telling New Mexico History: A New State History, edited by Marta Weigle with Frances Levine and Louise Stiver (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009).
"Father Manuel de Jesús Rada, Priest and Advocate for New Mexico, 1821-1843," Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture 17 (2006): 9-33.
"The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians, and the Devil," El Palacio 111:2 (2006):60-62.
"Francisco Cuervo y Valdés," in Aquí Se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque, Robert D. Martínez, ed. (Albuquerque: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2007).
"A Lost Chapter in the Ecclesiastical History of San Elizario, Texas: Fray Franciscao Atanasio Domínguez,"Password 50:2 (Summer 2006): 70-88.
Rick Hendricks and Gerald Mandell, "Fernando de Valdés Llanos: Austurian Merchant of Parral, 1639-1651," New Mexico Historical Review 81 (Spring 2006): 141-73.
Rick Hendricks and Gerald Mandell, "Allegations of Extortion: New Mexico's Residencias of the Mid-1600s," New Mexico Historical Review 80 (Fall 2005): 1-28.
"The Marriages of James Wiley Magoffin," Password 50:2 (Summer 2005): 65-79.
Rick Hendricks and Gerald Mandell, "The Apache Slave Trade in Parral, 1637-1679," The Journal of Big Bend Studies, 16 (2004): 59-81.
Rick Hendricks and Gerald Mandell, The Portuguese Merchants of Parral, Nueva Vizcaya, 1633–1675, Colonial Latin American Historical Review 12:1 (Winter 2003): 25-58.
"Viticulture in El Paso del Norte During the Colonial Period," Agricultural History, 78 (Spring 2004): 191-200.
Malcolm Ebright, Teresa Escudero, and Rick Hendricks, "Tomás Vélez Cahpupín's Last Will and Testament, His Career in New Mexico, and His Sword with a Golden Hilt," New Mexico Historical Review 78:3 (Summer 2003): 285-321.
"Introduction," to Anne E. Hughes's "The Beginnings of Spanish Settlement in the El Paso District," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Book Publishers of El Paso, 2003), 5:314.
"Everyday Life in Late-Eighteenth-Century Ysleta," Password 47:4 (Winter 2002): 171-85.
"Epidemic Disease in Eighteenth-Century El Paso," Southern New Mexico Historical Review 10 (January 2003): 6-8.
Rick Hendricks and Gerald Mandell, "Francisco de Lima: Portuguese Merchant of Parral and the New Mexico Trade, 1638-1675," New Mexico Historical Review 77:3 (Summer 2002): 261-93.
"Army Officer, Miner & Inventor," [Gen. H.H.C. Dunwoody], Las Cruces Sun-News 25 August 2002.
"Pueblo-Spanish Warfare in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico: The Battles of Black Mesa, Kotyiti, and Astialakwa," in Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World, Robert W. Preucel, ed. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002), 181-97.
"Juan de Oñate, Diego de Vargas, and Hispanic Beginnings in New Mexico," in New Mexican Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories, Richard W. Etulain, ed. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002), 45-77.
"Antonio Severo Borrajo: Hispano-Mexican Patriot Priest," Southern New Mexico Historical Review 9 (January 2002): 1-5.
"The Civil Records of Ysleta, 1835," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Book Publishers of El Paso, 2001), 4:1-76.
Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks, "The Pueblo League and Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico, 1692-1846," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Book Publishers of El Paso, 2001), 4:91-178.
"Searching for Lost Padre: Eighteenth-Century Mining Claims in the Organ Mountains and Greater El Paso del Norte," Password 46:2 (Summer 2001): 55-78.
"The Camino Real at the Pass: Economy and Political Structure of the Paso del Norte Area in the Eighteenth Century, in Memorias del Coloquio Internacional El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Colección Biblioteca del INAH, José de la Cruz Pacheco and Joseph P. Sánchez, coords. (Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2000), 125-41.
"The Rancho de Ysleta Grant Claim," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Sundance Press, 2000), 2:335-58.
"Early Livestock Brands in El Paso del Norte," Password 45:3 (Fall 2000): 107-16.
Rick Hendricks and Gerald J. Mandell, "Juan Manso, Frontier Entrepreneur," New Mexico Historical Review 75:3 (July 2000): 339-67.
"Report on Land Tenure in Ysleta del Sur," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Sundance Press, 2000), 1:141-207.
"A Brief Guide to Archival Collections," Romance Philology Special Issue: Documenting the Colonial Experience, with Special Regard to Spanish in the American Southwest 53:1 (Fall 1999): 137-51.
"Spanish Colonial Mining in Southern New Mexico: A Spanish to English Translation of Documents Relating to El Paso, the Organ Mountains, and Santa Rita del Cobre," The Mining History Journal: The Sixth Annual Journal of the Mining History Association (1999): 143-62.
"Antonio de Valverde Cosío," in American National Biography ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 22:148-49.
"El Paso del Norte: New Mexico's Southern Gateway on the Camino Real" in Gabrielle G. Palmer and Stephen L. Fosberg, comp. El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Volume 2, New Mexico Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series, 14 (Santa Fe: BLM, 1999), 209-20.
"Pedro de Villasur," in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 22:365.
"The Camino Real at the Pass: The Economy and Political Structure of the Paso del Norte Area in the Eighteenth Century," Password 44:1 (Spring 1999): 13-27.
"The Church in El Paso del Norte in the Eighteenth Century," in Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Faith: Papers of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Catholic Cuarto Centennial Conference on the History of the Catholic Church in New Mexico, Thomas J. Steele, S.J., Paul Rhetts, and Barbe Awalt, eds. (Albuquerque: LPD Press, 1998),101-18.
"Church-State Relations in Anza's New Mexico, 1777-1778," Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture 9 (1998): 25-42.
"La presencia de tlalpujahuenses en la reconquista de Nuevo México," Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad (El Colegio de Michoacán) 70:18 (Primavera 1997): 193-206.
"Fraud in the Lower Valley: The Rancho de Ysleta Grant Claim," Password 41:3 (Fall 1996): 135-49.
"Corpus Christi de la Isleta Mission," in The New Handbook of Texas, Editor in Chief, Ron Tyler (Austin: The Texas State Historical Association, 1996), 2:336.
"Antonio de Espejo," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History, edited by Barbara A. Tennenbaum (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996), 2:511
"Esteban," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History, edited by Barbara A. Tennenbaum (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996), 2:515-16
"Marcos de Niza," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History, edited by Barbara A. Tennenbaum (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996), 4:194
"Presidio," in Encyclopedia of Latin American History, edited by Barbara A. Tennenbaum (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996), 4:468-69
"Ascent to Astialakwa," The Record (of the National Archives) 2:3 (January 1996): 16, 34.
"The Exile and Return of Fray Isidro Cadelo, 1793-1810," New Mexico Historical Review 70:2 (April 1995): 129-57.
"Massacre in the Organ Mountains: The Death of Manuel Vidal de Lorca" Password 39:3 (Winter 1994): 169-77.
"A Muster of the Presidio of San Elizario in 1819," Password 39:3 (Fall 1994): 135-39.
"The Last Years of don Francisco Cuervo y Valdés," La crónica de Nuevo México 36 (July 1993): 2-3.
"Tabardillo: The 1764 Typhus Epidemic in the El Paso del Norte Area," Password 38:2 (Summer 1993): 55-64.
"Road to Rebellion, Road to Reconquest: The Camino Real and the Pueblo-Spanish War, 1680-1696," in Gabrielle G. Palmer, comp. El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, New Mexico Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series, 11 (Santa Fe: BLM, 1993), 8:1-6.
"Pedro Rodríguez Cubero, New Mexico's Reluctant Governor, 1697-1703" New Mexico Historical Review 68:1 (January, 1993): 13-39.
"Los últimos años de don Francisco Cuervo y Valdés," Boletín del Instituto del Estudios Asturianos 138 (Jul.-Dic. 1991): 525-33.
"Levels of Discourse in Early Modern Spanish: The Papers of Diego de Vargas, 1643-1704," North Dakota Quarterly (Winter 1990): 124-39.
"Road to Rebellion, Road to Reconquest: The Camino Real and the Pueblo-Spanish War," in Gabrielle Palmer, ed. Essays on the History of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Santa Fe: The Camino Real Project, 1990): 39-48.
"Politics, Piracy, and Columbus," Encuentro, Vol. 4, no. 3 (Winter 1987).
Rick Hendricks and Meredith D. Dodge, "The Vargas Project at The University of New Mexico," Encuentro 1 (Winter 1986): 3.
Books on Microfiche:
Rick Hendricks, Ignacio Avellaneda, and Meredith D. Dodge Text and Concordance of the Journals of don Diego de Vargas: Vol. 2, The Vargas Project Microfiche Series, 3 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993).
Text and Concordance of the Journals of don Diego de Vargas: Vol. 1 The Vargas Project Microfiche Series, 2 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992).
The Text and Concordance of Correspondence of don Diego de Vargas, 1675-1706 The Vargas Project Microfiche Series, 1 (University of New Mexico Press, 1988).
Other publications:
"In Memoriam: J. Henry Gustafson," Southern New Mexico Historical Review 14 (January 2007): 75.
"In Memoriam: Santiago P. Brito," Southern New Mexico Historical Review 14 (January 2007): 77-78.
"In Memoriam: Betty White Bowen," Southern New Mexico Historical Review 12 (January 2005): 56.
"Forward to the Second Edition" of El Paso: A Borderlands History by W.H. Timmons (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 2004), xvii-xix.
Rick Hendricks and Jennifer L. Thomas, Ethnographic Literature Review and Assessment, Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Carlsbad, N. Mex.: National Park Service, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Division of Natural and Cultural Resources, 2004.
"Prólogo," in Historias cercanas (relatos ignorados de la frontera), by David Pérez López (Chihuahua: Instituto Chihuahuense de la Cultura, 2002), [10-11].
"From Behind the Whistle," News to Kick Around [ High Noon Soccer League Newsletter] (July-August 2003): 2.
"Spanish Colonial History of the Clint-Fabens Area," in The 1995 San Elizario Plaza Archaeological Project, edited by John A. Peterson, Timothy B. Graves, and David V. Hill, Texas Antiquities Permit Number 1539 (El Paso: University of Texas at El Paso/Austin: TxDot Statewide Transportation Enhancement Program, 2002), 33-35.
"Appendix A: Spanish-Indian Relationships in El Paso del Norte," in The 1995 San Elizario Plaza Archaeological Project, edited by John A. Peterson, Timothy B. Graves, and David V. Hill, Texas Antiquities Permit Number 1539 (El Paso: University of Texas at El Paso/Austin: TxDot Statewide Transportation Enhancement Program, 2002), 236-44.
"Forward to Vina Walz's History of the El Paso Area, 1680-1692," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Book Publishers of El Paso, 2001), 4:195-96.
"Glossary to Vina Walz's History of the El Paso Area, 1680-1692," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Book Publishers of El Paso, 2001), 4:393-95.
"Defendant's Exhibit No. 23 (Ysleta Grant surveys of 1825 and 1841), Indian Claims Commission," in "Nicolas Perez, Jr. Exhibit" in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Sundance Press, 2000), 3:353-60.
"1825 Grant Description," in T.G. Conde and J.I. Angulo, "Report on Identification of Ysleta Grant Monuments," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Sundance Press, 2000), 3:370-71.
"1841 2nd Dispute of North-South Boundary Line, Ysleta-Senecú Pueblos" in T.G. Conde and J.I. Angulo, "Report on Identification of Ysleta Grant Monuments," in Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Archives (El Paso: Sundance Press, 2000), 3:375-76.
"Faces of the Camino Real: People in El Paso del Norte in the Spanish Era," In Proceedings: Speakers Series: El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe, 1999, Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, Texas (El Paso: United States Department of the Interior-National Park Service, 1999): 81-99.
"Spanish Colonial Agriculture, Rural History, and Lifeways (including the Mexican Period in New Mexico): An Annotated Bibliography." Prepared for the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, 1998.
"Spanish-Indian Relations in El Paso del Norte in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Rebellion of 1711." In Proceedings of the Ninth Jornada-Mogollon Conference, edited by Raymond P. Mauldin, Jeff D. Leach, and Susan Ruth. Publications in Archaeology, 12 (El Paso: Centro de Investigaciones Arqueológicas, 1997), 167-78.
"A Documentary History of Socorro and San Elizario, Texas" in vol. 2 Lower Valley History of El Valle Bajo: The Culture History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of El Paso, John A. Peterson and David O. Brown, eds. (Austin: Hicks & Company/Archaeological Research Inc., 1994).
Two Spanish Colonial Censuses of the El Paso Area: 1784 and 1787. CAR Report 709 (Las Cruces: Center for Anthropological Research, New Mexico State Univ., 1992).
"Images of a Dirty War: Repression in Argentina in Fact and Fiction, 1976-1983, "in Theo Crevenna, ed., Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Proceedings from the 38th Annual Meeting (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico, 1991).
With Gordon Odell and Nancy Morris. Latin American Labor Study Resources at The University of New Mexico (Albuquerque: The Latin American Institute, 1982).
Exhibits:
Technical consultant for "Path of the Padres," exhibit at El Paso International Airport, 2002.
Consultant for "Los Portales Museum," San Elizario, Texas, permanent exhibit, 2000.
Consultant for "The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro," traveling exhibit, 1992-
With Meredith D. Dodge and Nancy Swigger, translations for Albuquerque Museum Permanent Exhibition, "Four Centuries: A History of Albuquerque," 1984.
Hispanic Genealogical Publications:
“Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés.” In Aquí Se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of the Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque. Edited by Robert Martinez. Albuquerque: Genealogical Society of New Mexico. Forthcoming in March 2006.
"The First Certification of the El Paso Presidio," Nuestras Raíces 9:1 (Spring 1997): 6-7.
"Santa María de las Caldas and the Hacienda de San Antonio: Diligencias Matrimoniales from the Lost Curacy, 1733-1739," Nuestras Raíces 7:2 (Summer 1995): 74-82.
"Wills from El Paso de Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestras Raíces 6:4 (Summer 1995): 84-91.
"Santa María de las Caldas and the Hacienda de San Antonio: Diligencias Matrimoniales from the Lost Curacy, 1733-1739," Nuestras Raíces 7:1 (Spring 1995): 34-48.
"Wills from El Paso de Norte, 1754-1817," Nuestras Raíces 6:4 (Winter 1994): 161-67.
"Santa María de las Caldas and the Hacienda de San Antonio: Diligencias Matrimoniales from the Lost Curacy, 1733-1739," Nuestras Raíces 6:4 (Winter 1994): 181-91.
"Santa María de las Caldas and the Hacienda de San Antonio: Diligencias Matrimoniales from the Lost Curacy, 1733-1739," Nuestras Raíces 6:3 (Fall 1994): 115-132.
"Lobato Family Origins in Sombrerete, Mexico," Herencia: The Quarterly Journal of the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico 2:2 (April 1994): 4-8.
Professional Papers:
"Documentary Sources for Ecclesiastical Biographies in the Durango Cathedral Archives,"Society of Southwest Archivists, El Paso, 2006.
"Spanish Colonial and Mexican History of Southwestern New Mexico," Southwest New Mexico History Seminar, Silver City, 2005.
"The Career of Dr. Juan Bautista Ladrón del Niño de Guevara and the Ecclesiastical Visitation of New Mexico of 1817-18," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, Los Alamos, 2004.
Rick Hendricks and Gerald Mandell, "The Apache Slave Trade in Seventeenth-Century Parral," Center for Big Bend Studies Tenth Annual Conference, Alpine, Texas, 2003.
"Pass Wine: A History of Viticulture in El Paso del Norte," Agriculture and Rural Life in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, 2003 Symposium of the Agricultural History Society and the New Mexico Ag in the Classroom Program, Las Cruces, 2003
"Cultural Conflict along the Camino Real: The Clash between Hispano-Mexican and Franco-American Expressions of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico," VIII Coloquio Internacional El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Albuquerque, 2002.
"The Hanover Copper Mine of Central Doña Ana County, 1848-1864," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, Las Cruces, 2002.
"Church-State Relations in the Early Nineteenth Century at San Carlos Presidio: Captain Antonio García de Tejada vs. Fray Luis Salgado," Center for Big Bend Studies Seventh Annual Conference, Alpine, Texas, 2000.
"Commerce of the Camino Real: Trade Between Nueva Vizcaya and New Mexico Before the Pueblo Revolt of 1680," Sixth International Conference on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, El Paso, 2000.
"Material Culture of Diocesan Clergy in Eighteenth-Century El Paso," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, Valencia County, 2000.
"El Camino Real y la viticultura en El Paso del Norte durante la época colonial," V Coloquio Internacional El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, 1999.
With John A. Peterson, "The Use of Lime in Colonial New Mexico: Documentary Evidence for El Paso Lime Kilns," V Coloquio Internacional El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Zacatecas, Zacatecas, 1999.
"Faces of the Camino Real: People in El Paso del Norte in the Spanish Era," Chamizal National Memorial, Camino Real Speakers Series, 1999.
"Eighteenth-Century Silver Mining in the Organ Mountains: Francisco García Carabajal's Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Mine," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, Alamogordo, 1999.
"Tactical Considerations in Indian-Spanish Warefare in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century New Mexico: The Revolts of 1680, 1696, and 1711-13," Society for American Archaeology, 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1999.
"Silver Mining in the Organ Mountains: A New Look at Mining in Spanish Colonial New Mexico," IV Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Minería, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, 1998.
"Silver at the Pass: Eighteenth-Century Mining Claims in El Paso del Norte," Ninth Meeting of the Mining History Association, Bisbee, Arizona, 1998.
"Keynote: 400 Years of New Mexico's Recorded History," New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board, Albuquerque, 1998.
"El largo camino hacia Navajo," Tercer Coloquio Internacional del Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Durango, Durango, 1997.
"The Church in El Paso del Norte in the Eighteenth Century," The Archdiocese of Santa Fe Catholic Cuarto Centennial Commission Conference on the History of the Catholic Church in New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1997.
"Church-State Relations in Anza's New Mexico, 1777-1778," Second Annual World Conference in Celebration of the Life of Juan Bautista de Anza, Arizpe, Sonora, 1997.
"The Camino Real at the Pass: Economy and Political Structure of the Paso del Norte Area in the Eighteenth Century," Second International Conference on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Santa Fe, 1996.
"Spanish-Indian Relations in El Paso del Norte in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Suma Rebellion of 1711," Society for American Archaeology, 61st Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1995.
"Spanish-Indian Relations in El Paso del Norte in the Early Eighteenth Century," Jornada Mogollon Conference IX, El Paso, 1995.
"The Tiguas of Ysleta del Sur: A Study in Cultural Persistence," American Society for Ethnohistory, Tempe, Arizona, 1994.
"Places and Faces in Spanish Colonial El Paso: Cultural Geography and Historical Archaeology in Light of Recent Archival Investigations," Society for Historical Archaeology, Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1994.
"Forgotten Lessons and Missing Links: Aldoph Bandelier as a Pioneering Scientific Historian," Bandelier Sesquicentennial Conference, Albuquerque, 1990.
"Franciscan Ritual in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico: Possession of Churches," Religion in World History, World History Association and Rocky Mountain World History Association, Provo, Utah, 1990.
"Images of a Dirty War: Repression in Argentina in Fact and Fiction, 1976-1983," Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Tucson, Arizona, 1990.
"Observations on Pueblo-Spanish Relations in the Vargas Era, 1692-1704" New Mexico Historical Society Annual Convention, 1989.
"Computer-Generated Concordance Technology and its Application to Historical Research" Gran Quivira Conference, Tumacácori National Monument, 1988.
"The Vargas Project and the Tricentennial of the Reconquest of New Mexico" Arizona/New Mexico Historical Societies Annual Convention, 1988.
"Levels of Discourse in Early Modern Spanish: The Papers of Diego de Vargas, 1643-1704" Monterey Institute of International Studies, Seventh Annual Symposium, 1987.
"Governor Pedro Rodríguez Cubero, 1697-1703" Gran Quivira Conference, Mountainair, 1987.
Presentations:
"New Mexico in 1801," Centennial Lecture Series, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritatge Museum, Las Cruces, 2008
"Witchcraft and Religious Conflict in New Mexican History," The Big Read, New Mexico State University Library, Las Cruces, 2007
"The Witches of Abiquiu,"Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, Santa Fe, 2007
"Diocesan Clergy in Spanish Colonial New Mexico,"Southwest Seminars, Voices from the Paso: 2007, A History Lecture Series, Santa Fe, 2007
Rick Hendricks and Malcolm Ebright, "The Witches of Abiquiu," School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, 2006
"Mining Claims in Southern New Mexico in the Spanish Colonial Period," Doña Ana County Geology Club, New Mexico State University, 2006
"Workshop on Spanish Paleography," for Familia Ancestral Research Association (Southern California), Archives and Special Collections Department, New Mexico State University, 2006.
"The Witches of Abiquiu," New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritatge Museum, Las Cruces, 2006
Rick Hendricks and Malcolm Ebright, "The Witches of Abiquiu," Joe Ferraro Gym, Abiquiu, 2006
"The Witches of Abiquiu," Corbett Center, New Mexico State University, 2006
Rick Hendricks and Malcolm Ebright, " The Witches of Abiquiu," Center for Southwest Research, Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico, 2006
Rick Hendricks, et al., "The Founding Families of Albuquerque Project," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, Albuquerque, 2006
"From Cantabria to Sombrerete to New Mexico,"Rio Grande Historical Collections Society Meeting, Las Cruces, 2006
"History of the Camino Real," The Grand Adventure!: The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Camino Real International Heritage Center, Socorro, 2005
"The Sombrerete Microfilming Project," Rio Grande Historical Collections Society Meeting, Las Cruces, 2005
"La Visión Histórica de David Pérez López," Presentation of Historias cercanas, Ciudad Juárez, 2004
"Your Excellence will Advise Me What to Do": The Durango Area Microfilming Project Turns Twelve, Rio Grande Historical Collections Society Meeting, Las Cruces, 2004
"Workshop on Spanish Paleography and an Introduction to the Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango," Archives and Special Collections Department, New Mexico State University, 2003
"Hispanic Families of Colonial New Mexico," Familia Ancestral Research Association, Golden West College, Long Beach, 2003
"Diego de Vargas and the Reconquest and Recolonization of New Mexico," Columbus Historical Society, Columbus, New Mexico, 2003
"Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, Founder of Albuquerque," Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, 10th Anniversary Conference, Albuquerque, July, 2003
"An Overview of Spanish Colonial Agriculture in New Mexico," Desert Daubers Garden Club, Las Cruces, 2003.
Reactor to Robert R. Archibald, Tenth Annual SEGHS Conference, San Elizario, Texas, 2002.
"Juan de Oñate, Diego de Vargas, and Hispanic Beginnings in the American Southwest," Juan de Oñate: The Man, Myth, and Mestizaje, A Teachers' Workshop, University of Texas at El Paso, 2002.
Reactor for session on Colonial History of San Elizario, Ninth Annual SEGHS Conference, San Elizario, Texas, 2001.
"San Elizario: An Archaeological and Colonial Overview," San Elizario History Conference: The Roots of El Paso, San Elizario, Texas, 2000.
"Antonio Severo Borrajo: Hispano-Mexican Patriot Priest," San Elizario History Conference: The Roots of El Paso, San Elizario, Texas, 1999.
"El Paso's Lost Mission: Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eighteenth Century," Quadricentennial Arts Festival, El Paso Community College, El Paso, 1998.
"The Camino Real in Historical Context," Quadricentennial reception of the El Paso Zoo for the unveiling of José Cisneros's Rider Across the Centuries Tiles, El Paso Zoo, El Paso, 1998.
"Oñate: Who and Why?" Doña Ana County Historical Society, Las Cruces, 1998.
"An Overview of Spanish Colonial Agriculture in New Mexico," New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, 1998.
"The Vargas Project: An Insider's View," Genealogical Society of Hispanic America-Southern California, 9th Annual Conference, Long Beach, 1997.
"Tracing Roque Madrid's 1705 Navajo Campaign Route," Salida del Sol Chapter of the Old Spanish Trail Association, 1997.
With John P. Wilson, "The Navajo in 1705: Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal," Gran Quivira Conference, Mountainair, 1996.
"Cuervo y Valdés's Earlier Foundings: Missions and Towns in Coahuila," Albuquerque Founders Day, 1996.
"Historical Lecture," The 284th Fiesta de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, 1996.
"An Update on the Vargas Project," Corral of the Westerners, Santa Fe, 1995.
"San Elizario Colonial History," San Elizario: The Roots of El Paso Conference, San Elizario, Texas, 1995.
"Genealogical Aspects of the Vargas Project," Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1995.
"The Conflict among Diocesan Clergy, Franciscans, and Civil-Military Authorities in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth Century New Mexico," Doña Ana County Historical Society, Las Cruces, NM, 1995.
"The View From Durango: Research on Spanish Colonial New Mexico in the Archivos Históricos del Arzobizpado de Durango Microfilm Collection at NMSU," Historical Society of New Mexico, Taos, 1994.
"San Elizario Colonial History," San Elizario: The Roots of El Paso Conference, San Elizario, Texas, 1994.
"Spanish Colonial Records," Southern New Mexico Genealogical Society, Las Cruces, 1994.
"The Last Years of don Francisco Cuervo y Valdés," Albuquerque Founders Day, 1994.
With John P. Wilson, "Roque Madrid's 1705 Navajo Campaign," Historical Society of New Mexico Annual Conference, Albuquerque, 1993.
"Genealogical Aspects of the Vargas Project," New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, 1993.
"The Last Generation of Spanish Rule in Socorro," 122nd Anniversary of the City of Socorro, Texas, 1993.
With Ignacio Avellaneda, "The Expeditions of Hernando de Soto and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: A Twice-Told Tale" New Mexico Quincentennial Commission Lecture Series, Silver City, 1992.
With Ignacio Avellaneda, "The Expeditions of Hernando de Soto and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: A Twice-Told Tale" New Mexico Quincentennial Commission Lecture Series, Artesia, 1992.
"The Historical Significance of Vargas's Reconquest of New Mexico" Summer Festival, Rancho de las Golondrinas, 1992.
Panelist: "Three Hundred and Fifty Years of Our History: The Durango Archives Microfilming Project" NMSU, 1992.
"The Colonial History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley" San Elizario, Texas, 1992.
"Reading Spanish Colonial Documents on Contact History in the Southwest for Ethnohistorical Content" Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, 1992.
"Workshop on Spanish Colonial Archives: The Archivo General de Indias and The Archivo General de la Nación" Special Collections Department, UNM General Library, 1992.
"Context, Continuity, and Community: Spain in the Americas in the Seventeenth Century," Albuquerque Founders Day, 1991.
"The Camino Real from 1540 to 1709, From Coronado to the Founding of Chihuahua: Some Macro- and Microecomonic Considerations" UNM Division of Continuing Education, UNM 1991.
With Meredith D. Dodge "Workshop on Spanish Paleography" National History Day Summer Institute on the Columbian Voyage and Its Legacy, UNM, 1991.
"The Vargas Project: Editing and the Documentary History of the Spanish Southwest" Library Professional Staff Advisory Council, Albuquerque, 1990.
"The Organization of Spanish and Mexican Archives" Association of Records Managers and Administrators, Albuquerque, 1988.
"Workshop on Spanish Colonial Archives: The Archivo General de Indias and The Archivo General de la Nación" Special Collections Department, UNM General Library, 1988.
"Principles of Historical Translation" New Mexico Translators and Interpreters Association, Albuquerque, 1988.
With Meredith D. Dodge "Diego de Vargas: A Lonely Grandfather in New Mexico" UNM History Department Parents' Day Program, 1986.
"A Pirataria na História do Brasil" Associação Educacional Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, 1984.
Foreign languages competencies:
Spanish
Portuguese
Professional service:
2003- Member, Advisory Council, Center for Big Bend Studies
2001- Editor, Southern New Mexico Historical Review