Ross Frank, Dept. of Ethnic Studies


Publications

Monograph:

Edited Book:

Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank, co-editors.  Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers: Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion.  University of New Mexico Press and Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU, 2005.

Book Chapters:

“'They conceal a malice most refined': Controlling Social and Ethnic Mobility in Late Colonial New Mexico”, in Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers: Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion. Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank, ed.  University of New Mexico Press and Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU, 2005.

"Demographic, Social, and Economic Change: New Mexico." In New Views of the Spanish Borderlands. Ed. Robert H. Jackson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998, 31-71.

Curated Exhibitions:

TEÍC’IH INLA: Practicing Decolonial Love – Ledger Drawings of Dwayne Wilcox, Mandeville Special Collections, Geisel Library, UC San Diego, November 2-December 8, 2017.  Lead curator, with class of graduate students, Mandeville staff.

Tradition by Moderns: Native American Women Artists of California, Women’s Museum of California, Nov. 5-30, 2015.  Lead curator, with class of students, WMC staff.
 
Alternative Accounts:  Plains Indian Art From the Nineteenth Century to Now, San Diego Museum of Art, Dec. 15, 2012 through May 28, 2013.  Lead curator, with class of undergraduate and graduate students, SDMA staff, Teri Sowell, Department of Visual Arts. 

Articles:

“Catalogue essay for Picturing History: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians.  Fairfield University of Art, Fairfield CT, 2017.

“Keeping Time, Manifesting Power”, in Keeping Time: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings, 1865-1900.  Donald Ellis Gallery, New York, 2014.

Catalogue entries for Plains Indians / Indens des Plaines at Musèe du quai Branly, Paris; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, 2014-16.  Paris: Skira Flammarion, Paris, 2014.

"Making New Mexican Santos: Franciscans and Vecino Dominance in Late Colonial New Mexico." New Mexico Historical Review, 2000; 75:3.

"The Life of Christ and the New Mexican Santo Tradition," Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture, 7 (1996), 33-80.

"Economic Growth and the Creation of the Vecino Homeland in New Mexico, 1780-1820," Revista de Indias (Madrid) 1996; 56:208, 743-782.

Entries for the Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Ed. Barbara Tenenbaum. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995).

"Currency and Finance: The Spanish Borderlands." In Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Ed. Jacob E. Cooke. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. (vol. I: 564-575).

"The Creation of a Vecino Culture in Late Colonial New Mexico, 1780-1820." Five Centuries of Mexican History/Cinco Siglos de historia de México: Papers of the VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians. México: Instituto Mora, 1992. (vol. II: 253-273).

"Changing Pueblo Indian Pottery Tradition: The Underside of Economic Development in Late Colonial New Mexico, 1750 1820." Journal of the Southwest, 33:3 (Autumn, 1991), 282-321.

"An Interpretation of the Land of Cockaigne (1567) by Pieter
Breugel the Elder." The Sixteenth Century Journal, 22:2
(Summer 1991), 299-329.

"The Cortés Letters: Inscribing the Conquest of Mexico." dispositio, 14:36-38 (1989 [1991]), 187-212.

Reviews:

Review of: Coronado's Land by Marc Simmons (Albuquerque, 1991). Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 1994, 25:4, 550-551.

Review of: The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber (New Haven, 1993). Journal of San Diego History. Fall 1994, 280-282.

Review of: The Protector de Indios in Colonial New Mexico by Charles R. Cutter (Albuquerque, 1986). The American Indian Quarterly, (1989) 18:3, 290-292.



Ross Frank / Ethnic Studies / November 16, 2018.