VITA
Mr. Richard Baquera
9369 San Lorenzo Ave.
El Paso, TX 79907-6843
Telephone Numbers:
Home: (915) 859-9406
Office: (915) 831-2486
Fax: (915) 831-2155
Office: A2104, Valle Verde Campus
Business Address:
El Paso Community College-Valle Verde
919 Hunter Dr.
Social Science-History
El Paso, TX 79915
EDUCATION
Jesuit High School, El Paso, TX
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX: BBA, May, 1970; MA, August, 1978
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX: Post-Graduate Work
FIELDS OF STUDY
United States History
Late Colonial-Early National Mexico
Texas and El Paso
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant-Assistant Instructor, United States History, University of Texas at El Paso,
1973-78, 1980, 1983
Part-time Instructor, United States History, El Paso Community College [Includes several
bilingual classes], 1979-1994
Lecturer, United States History, University of Texas at El Paso, Summer, 1984-1994, 1998
Tenured Instructor, United States, Texas, Mexican American History and El Paso History, El
Paso Community College, Fall, 1994-Present
Lecturer, United States and El Paso History, University of Texas at El Paso; Summer, 1998
Lecturer, Center for Lifelong Learning, University of Texas at El Paso, Fall 2000-Fall, 2001
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial Board, Password, Publication of El Paso County Historical Society
Book Review Editor, Password, El Paso County Historical Society
Book Reviewer, Password, El Paso County Historical Society
Book Reviewer, Interdisciplinary Review
Distance Learning Classes, El Paso Community College
Internet History Classes, El Paso Community College
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
"Paso del Norte: Regional Election Center, 1814-1820", Password 37, Spring, 1992, No. 1.
"José Félix Trespalacios: Chihuahua Insurgent and First Mexican Governor of Texas",
Password
WORK IN PROGRESS
"The García Condes: A Spanish-Mexican Military Family"
PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS PRESENTED
"Paso del Norte: Regional Election Center, 1814-1820" at Southwest Conference on Latin
American Studies, March 1980, Austin, TX.
"Expanding Minority Opportunities In Education--In A Community College Environment"
Co-Presenter, Expanding Minority Opportunities Conference, January, 1995, Tempe, AZ.
"San Elizario History: The Roots of El Paso," Co-Presenter, San Elizario Genealogy and
Historical Society Annual Conference, April, 1996.
"Spain's Interest in the El Paso Area," Co-Presenter, Oñate Quadricentennial Symposium, El
Paso Del Norte Council for the Social Studies, February, 1998.
"The Spanish in El Paso: 1810-1814," Lecture, El Paso Public Library, Richard Burges
Branch, May, 1999.
"The Mexican Revolution in El Paso," Lecture, El Paso Museum of History, November, 2000.
"Presidios and the Far Northern Spanish Frontier", Presentation, San Elizario History
Conference, April, 2003.
“The Aztecs”, Presentation, Teachers for A New Era, June, 2006.
“Women in Colonial New Spain”, Presentation, San Elizario History Conference, April, 2007.
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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
Research Grant for trip to Mexico City from the Border Studies University Consortium for
Latin America
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, Fall, 1980, University of Texas at Austin
SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Immigration and Ethnicity in America, NEH-Funded Seminar,
University of Texas at El Paso, January, 1995-May, 1996
Teachers for A New Era, El Paso Community College-UTEP, June, 2006
COMMITTEES
National Security Education Program Faculty Interview
Committee, December, 1994, EPCC
Instructional Affairs Committee, EPCC
District Complaint Panel-Alternate, EPCC
Member of Citizen’s Advisory Board, Valley Regional Command Center, El Paso Police
Department
EPCC Grade Appeals Committee
History Discipline Interview Committees, Various
Government and Sociology Interview Committees, Spring, 2002
Chicana/o Studies Committee, EPCC
BOOK REVIEWS
"Los Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New Spain," By Oakah. L. Jones,
Jr., in El Paso Herald-Post, June 16, 1979.
"Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805," By Milton Lomask, in
El Paso Herald-Post, October 6, 1979.
"Tragic Cavalier: Governor Manuel Salcedo of Texas, 1808-1813," By Félix D. Almaraz, Jr.,
in Password 38, Winter, 1992, No. 4.
"With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution," By José Enrique de la
Peña, Trans. and Ed. by Carmen Perry, in Password 38, Summer, 1993, No. 2.
"Spanish Texas: 1519-1821," By Donald E. Chipman, in Password 38, Winter, 1993, No. 4.
"Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border" By Américo Paredes, Ed. and Intro. by
Richard Bauman, in Password 39, Summer, 1994, No. 2.
"Literacy, Education, and Society in New Mexico: 1693-1821," By Bernardo P. Gallegos,
Password.
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"My Penitente Land: Reflections on Spanish New Mexico," By Fray Angélico Chávez,
Foreward by Thomas J. Steele, S.J., Password.
"Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," By Oscar J. Martinez,
Password 39, Winter, 1994, No. 4.
"The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas," By Emilio Zamora, Password 41, Spring, 1996,
No. 1.
"The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695: Fraud in Recruiting Colonists for New Mexico,"
By John B. Colligan, Password 41, Spring, 1996, No. 1.
“Stowaway,” By Carol Córdoba, Multicultural Review 6:2, June 1997, p. 76.
“Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States,” By Carlos G. VélezIbáñez, Password.
“Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690,” By Juan Bautista Chapa. Password 42:2,
Summer 1997.
Various Others in Password, as Book Review Editor.