Santa Clara University

Faculty & Staff - Robert M. Senkewicz

History department
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Robert M. Senkewicz

Professor
O'Connor Hall 21
tel (408)554-6850
fax (408)554-2181
rsenkewicz@scu.edu

Chair, University Core Curriculum Committee

Education

Ph.D. Stanford University, 1974
M.A. Stanford University, 1970
B.A. Fordham University, 1969

Selected Publications

Books

Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846, ed. By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz (2001)

Guia de los manuscritos concernientes a Baja California en la colecciones de la Biblioteca Bancroft (Guide to Manuscripts Concerning Baja California in the Collections of the Bancroft Library), compiled and edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz (2002)AltaCA

The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California. By Antonio Maria Osio. Translated, edited, and annotated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.
Winner of the Norman Neuerberg Prize for scholarship in early California History. Given by the Historical Society of Southern California, 2003.

Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985

Articles

"The Inflation of an Overdone Business: Economic Origins of San Francisco Vigilantes, "The Pacific Historian, XXIII (Fall 1979), 63-75

"Religion and Non-Partisan Politics in Gold Rush San Francisco," Southern California Quarterly, LXI (Winter 1979), 351-378

"The End of the 1824 Chumash Revolt in Alta California: Father Vicente Sarria's Account," The Americas LIII (October 1996), 273-283undefined

Chapters in Books of Collected Essays

"American and Catholic: The Premature Synthesis of the San Francisco Iris," in David J. Alvarez (ed.) An American Church (Moraga, CA: St. Mary's College Press, 1979), 141-151

"The Recovery of the First History of Alta California: Antonio Maria Osio's La historia de Alta California," in Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and Chuck Tatum (eds), Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. II (Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1996), 168-184. With Rose Marie Beebe.

"The Teaching and Practice of History and the Recent General Congregations," in Martin R. Tripole, S.J. (ed.), Promise Renewed: Jesuit Education for a New Millennium (Chicago: Loyola Press, 1999), 169-176

"Uncertainty on the Mission Frontier: Missionary Recruitment and Institutional Stability in Alta California in the 1790s," in John F. Schwaller (ed.) The Franciscan Experience in the Americas (forthcoming from the Academic of American Franciscan History Press). With Rose Marie Beebe

"The Study of History," in William T. Stancil (ed.), A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts (Kansas City: Rockhurst University Press, 2002).

"The California Missions in Fiction and Literature: A Preliminary Investigation" in The Proceedings of the Literary History of San Diego and Northern Baja California. The Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Countries and The California Council for the Humanities, San Diego, 200. With Rose Marie Beebe.Vigilaties

Works In Progress

A critical edition of the letters and correspondence of Frs. Francisco Palóu and Vicente Sarría

A critical edition of the Bancroft Library Women's testimonios

Courses

HIST 7 United States: Colonies and Constitution 


HIST 101 Historical Writing
HIST 170 Revolution, Confederation and Constitution 
HIST 186 California
HIST 190 Capstone Seminar, Subject Matter Preparation Program