Spanish California, colonial Mexico, and the North American borderlands.
Anne is particularly interested in gender, medicine, sickness, and indigenous cultures.
Selected Articles
Reid, A.M. and Hackel, S.W. “Transforming an Eighteenth-Century Archive into a Twenty-First-Century Database: The Early California Population Project.” History Compass 5, no. 3 (April 2007): 1013-1025.
Conference Presentations
Panelist, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West’s “Gendered Borderlands” at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, October 10, 2015.
Conference moderator, “Junípero Serra: Context and Representation 1713 to 2013” at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, September 21, 2013.
Presenter, “‘Medics of the Soul and the Body:’ Baptismal Cesarean Operations in the Alta California Missions” at Commun(icat)ing Bodies:The Body & Religion Conference, Graz, Austria, February 16, 2012.
Awards and Honors
USC Science, Technology and Society Initiative’s Summer Research Award for dissertation research at the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico City, Mexico, July 2011.
Del Amo Summer Research Award for dissertation research at the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain, May 2011.
USC-Early Modern Studies Institute’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011.
Historical Society of Southern California’s HSSC/Haynes Summer Stipend, 2010.
Huntington-USC Institute for California and the West Summer Research Grant, 2010.
Organizational Memberships and Affiliations
American Historical Association
American Library Association
Service
Reviewer for the California Open Education Resources Council (COERC), 2014
