Andrés Reséndez, a graduate of El Colegio de México and the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate in history, Andrés Reséndez is a professor at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 (2005) and A Different Journey. The exploration of Cabeza de Vaca by América (2008).