Erika Perez

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Chapters

• Perez, E. -. (2012). The Paradox of Kinship: Native-Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769-1840s.. University of California Press.
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  My chapter was workshopped twice and peer-reviewed/critiqued by 11 other scholars in my field who also contributed chapters to this volume. My chapter was also critiqued by the two assigned editors of this volume.For the publisher's page on this volume, including access to the Table of Contents which references my chapter, please see:http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520272392;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Perez, Erika. “The Paradox of Kinship: Native-Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769-1840s.” In On the Borders of Love and Power, edited by David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio, 231-254. Berkeley: University of California Press, Fall 2012.;

Journals/Publications

• Perez, E. -. (2012). Ę˝Saludos from your comadre:' Compadrazgo as a Community Institution in Alta California, 1769-1860s.. The Journal of the California Historical Society/California Historical Society.
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  This article was assigned two anonymous peer-reviewers and an editor and underwent several phases of revisions. For the journal volume and issue, see: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/publications/pdf/California_History_vol88_no4.pdf;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Perez, Erika. “ʽSaludos from your comadre:' Compadrazgo as a Community Institution in Alta California, 1769-1860s.” California History: The Journal of the California Historical Society 88, no. 4 (September 2011): 47-62, 70-73. http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/publications/pdf/California_History_vol88_no4.pdf.;

Presentations

• Perez, E. -. (2012, 2012-03-01). The Borders of Intimacy and Biculturality in American California. Autry National Center-Institute for the Study of the American West Workshop. Los Angeles, CA.
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  Invited to present a paper on my research, as the sole presenter, before the Autry National Center-Institute for the Study of the American West workshop;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Perez, E. -. (2012, 2013-01-01). Ę˝I Do Not Know at Times What To Do, Everything Turns Out Wrong': Mixed Children Negotiating Anglo and Californio Worlds in Post-Conquest California.. American Historical Association Annual meeting. New Orleans, LA.
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  Both a paper presenter and the organizer of the panel entitled, Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Lines in the Borderlands: Mixed Peoples in Transitional North America.;Type of Presentation: Panel Discussant (Reporting Research);

Others

• Perez, E. -. (2012, Aug). Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769-1885..
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  Monograph based on my dissertation research on Alta California and currently under revision. My research traverses the Spanish, Mexican and early American periods, evaluating the role of interethnic kinship, marriages and sexuality in forging intimate bonds that both facilitated and impeded conquest. This monograph pays particular attention to the role of indigenous and Spanish-Mexican women as contributors to community-formation in newly established Catholic communities through the honorofic role as godmothers. This study will also contribute new research about interethnic families and bicultural offspring in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.; Full Citation: Perez, Erika. Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769-1885.; Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Perez, E. -. (2014, June). Review of Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez, River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands and Janne Lahti, Cultural Construction of Empire: The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico.
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  A book review assessing two recently published monographs that analyze colonization, constructions of identity, and empire in the Spanish Borderland and early American West. This book review is scheduled for publication this year. Recent editions of this publication are found on Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/reviews_in_american_history/; Full Citation: Perez, Erika. Review of Omar S. Valerio-Jimenez, River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands by Duke University Press (2013), and Janne Lahti, Cultural Construction of Empire: The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico by the University of Nebraska Press (2012) in Reviews in American History (forthcoming 2013).; Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Perez, E. -. (2012). The Huntington Library's 'Early California Population Project.'.
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  A web review assessing the benefits and drawbacks of the Huntington Library's "Early California Population Project," an electronic database available to scholars of eighteenth and nineteenth century Alta California and genealogists studying the Catholic mission period. This database provides transcribed sacramental record information from the original Catholic mission registers.For my web review, see:http://www.common-place.org/web-library/2010-07.shtml.;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Perez, Erika. Web Review of "The Huntington Library's 'Early California Population Project.'" Common-Place.org 10, no. 4 (July 2010). http://www.common-place.org/web-library/2010-07.shtml.;Electronic: Yes;Type of Publication: Web Review;