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David Rex Galindo

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: History

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, Southern Methodist University, 2010
    Major: History
    Dissertation: Propaganda Fide: Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain

Current Scheduled Teaching

HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianSpring 2025
HIST 4263.002Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American HistorySpring 2025

Previous Scheduled Teaching

HIST 4171.001Latin America : The Colonial Experience, 1492 1821Spring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5130.001Studies in World History: Latin American or AsianSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4180.001Colonial Mexico and the Spanish SouthwestFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4171.001Latin America : The Colonial Experience, 1492 1821Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Cohen, T., Harrison, J.T., Rex Galindo, D. (2022). The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico. 344. Norman, The University of Oklahoma Press and the Academy of American Franciscan History.
  • Book Chapter

  • Rex Galindo, D. (2024). Doctor Navarro in the Americas: The Circulation and Use of Martín de Azpilcueta’s Work in Early-Modern Mexico. The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press: Martín de Azpilcueta’s Manual de Confessores from a Global Perspective. 324-350. Leiden, Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/69299?language=en
  • Rex Galindo, D. (2023). Don José de Garro, un militar guipuzcoano en el gobierno de la frontera meridional americana durante el reinado de Carlos II. La nobleza titulada castellana en la conservación del imperio español en tiempos de Carlos II. Ed. Porfirio Sanz C. 171-189. Madrid, Editorial Silex. https://www.silexediciones.com/producto/la-nobleza-titulada-castellana-en-la-conservacion-del-imperio-espanol-en-tiempos-de-carlos-ii/
  • Rex Galindo, D. (2022). Un Científico Ilustrado y Liberal: Fray Jerónimo Boscana, su “Relacion historica” y la antropología de California. De viejas y nuevas fronteras en América y Europa. Ed. Macarena Sánchez. 281-303. Santiago, Editorial Universidad Finis Terrae. https://ediciones.uft.cl/libro/de-viejas-y-nuevas-fronteras-en-america-y-europa/
  • Rex Galindo, D., Harrison, J.T., Cohen, T. (2022). The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico: An Introduction. The Franciscans in Colonial Mexico. 1-16.. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press and Academy of American Franciscan History. https://www.oupress.com/9780806169255/the-franciscans-in-colonial-mexico/
  • Rex Galindo, D. (2020). Shaping Colonial Behaviors: Franciscan Missionary Literature and the Implementation of Religious Normative Knowledge in colonial Mexico, 1530s-1640s. Knowledge of the Pragmatici: Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America. Eds. Thomas Duve and Otto Danwerth. 296–327. Leiden, Brill. https://brill.com/display/title/56781?language=en
  • Book Review

  • Rex Galindo, D. (2022). Cornelius Conover, Pious Imperialism: Spanish Rule and the Cult of Saints in Mexico City (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019). The Americas. 79 (2) 357-358. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Rex Galindo, D. (2020). Dennis Herrick, Esteban: The African slave who explored America (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2018). The Historian. 82 (1) 88-89.
  • Rex Galindo, D. (2020). Matthew D. O’Hara, The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018). American Historical Review. 125 (2) 687-688.
  • Journal Article

  • Rex Galindo, D. (2023). "Studying Indigenous Labor and Coercion on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire: An Introduction." Rechtsgeschichte-Legal History Journal. Dossier, Studying Indigenous Labor and Coercion on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire. 31 112-116. Frankfurt, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. http://rg.rg.mpg.de/en/all
  • Rex Galindo, D. (2023). “Forms of Indigenous Labor on New Spain’s Northern Frontiers: The Cases of New Mexico and California (17th–18th Centuries).” Rechtsgeschichte-Legal History Journal. Dossier, Studying Indigenous Labor and Coercion on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire. 31 146-159. Frankfurt, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. http://rg.rg.mpg.de/en/all
  • Cristián, L., Rex Galindo, D. (2022). “Women and the Economic Administration in the Franciscan Missions of Valdivia, Chile: The Syndic Clara de Eslava y Lope.” Catholic Historical Review. 108 (1) 101-124. Washington, DC, The American Catholic Historical Association. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47709
  • Rex Galindo, D. (2020). “Imperio desde los márgenes: Un estudio de la obra de fray Pedro González de Agüeros y sus planes reformistas de las fronteras del sur de la América meridional a finales del siglo XVIII.” Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas. 57 153-189. Cologne, University of Cologne. https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/jbla
  • Leal, C., Rex Galindo, D. (2020). “Para no poner en peligro la santa pobreza. Economía material en el Colegio de misiones de Chillán-Chile, 1756-1817.” Vínculos de Historia. 9 452-472. Ciudad Real, University of Castilla-La Mancha. http://vinculosdehistoria.com/index.php/vinculos/issue/archive
  • Monograph

  • Rex Galindo, D. (2018). To Sin no More: Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683-1830. 348. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press and the Academy of American Franciscan History. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29297#:~:text=In%20this%20ambitious%2C%20careful%2C%20and,clarifies%20why%20the%20Seraphic%20Order

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Rex Galindo, D. (Principal), "Long-Term Fellowship," sponsored by Huntington Library, Private, $50000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Rex Galindo, D. (Principal), "Short-Term Fellowship," sponsored by Huntington Library, Private, $7000 Funded. (2020 - 2020).
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    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
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    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
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