Andrés Reséndez

Andrés Reséndez grew up in Mexico City where he went into politics for a brief period and served as a consultant for historical soap operas. He has taught at Yale, the University of Helsinki, and UC Davis.

Reséndez's areas of interest are early European exploration and colonization of the Americas, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and the early history of the Pacific Ocean. His latest book, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2017 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University. His next book, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, about the first expedition to go from America to Asia and back, thus transforming the Pacific Ocean into a vital space of contact and exchange, is forthcoming in September 2021.