Santa Clara University

CO-DIRECTORS:

Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University. She received her B.A. from Santa Clara in 1976 and her Ph. D. From Stanford University in 1983. She has received the David Logothetti Award for Teaching Excellence from the College of Arts sand Sciences and the Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence from Santa Clara University. She is currently Associate Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Robert M. Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. He received his B.A. from Fordham university in 1969  and his Ph. D. Form Stanford University in 1974.  He is the author of Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco (Stanford University Press, 1985). He has received the Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence from Santa Clara University.

Beebe and Senkewicz have collaborated on four books:

• A History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California, by Antonio María Osio (University of Wisconsin, 1996)
• Lands of Promise and Despair Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (Heyday Books, 2001) Guía de los manuscritos concernientes a Baja California en las colecciones de la biblioteca Bancroft. [Guide to the Manuscripts Concerning Baja California in the Collections of The Bancroft Library] (Guadalajara, Mexico: Published for The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley by Ediciones de la Noche, 2002.)
• Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848 (Heyday Books and The Bancroft Library, 2006)
• They have received the Norman Neuerberg Award from the historical Society of Southern California and the Joseph Bayma Award for Scholarship from Santa Clara University.