Joseph P Sánchez

Joseph P. Sánchez is founder and director of the Spanish Colonial Research Center at the University of New Mexico. He retired from the National Park Service (NPS) in 2014 after thirty-five years of service. From 2003 to 2014 he served as superintendent of Petroglyph National Monument. Before his career with NPS, he was a professor of colonial Mexican history and director of the Mexican American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He has taught at the University of New Mexico, Santa Ana College in California, and the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico, and he has published several studies on Spanish frontiers in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Alaska.

New Mexico in the Seventeenth Century