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Credits
Authors
Steven Hackel
University of California, Riverside
Steven Hackel is an expert on early California history and American colonial history. He is Professor of history at UC Riverside, the general editor of the Early California Population Project, the creator of the Pobladores Database, and author of books and articles on early California. Hackel’s work on Indigenous Californians and the California missions has been supported by grants from UC Riverside, the NEH, and the Haynes Foundation.
Erik Steiner
CESTA, Stanford University
Erik Steiner is the Co-Director of the Spatial History Project in the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University. He specializes in the development of digital humanities projects, especially in the areas of spatial analysis, cartography, and visualization. Steiner has collaborated with Hackel since 2010.
Jacques Renard
Université Paris-Sorbonne
Jacques Renard has a doctorate in history from Paris-Sorbonne University, specializing in historical demography and family history. A technician in historical demography, he led the development of historical demographic surveys at Paris-Sorbonne University. He regularly collaborates on international demography projects to which he brings technical expertise. He is the author of several books, including two on historical demography with Professor Pierre Chaunu.
Acknowledgements
Many people and organizations have contributed to the development of this project, too numerous to fully acknowledge. Student researchers each made massive contributions to the development of the data, including Rebecca Wren, Seth Archer, Ea Madrigal, Kristen Hayashi and Evan Suda. This project would not have been possible without the financial support from the Haynes Foundation, a UCR Chancellor Strategic Grant, the Dean of the UCR Graduate School, and Dean of UCRs College of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences. The Huntington Library and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University also contributed significant time, space, and resources to the project.
Essential Resources
Marie E. Northrop, Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850 (1976-1984)
Dorothy Mutnick, Some Alta California Pioneers (1982)