Steven W. Hackel

Steven W. Hackel is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of the award-winning Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. He also directs a project in digital history, the Early California Cultural Atlas, and was the curator of Missions, Myths, and Memories: The Life and Legacies of Junípero Serra, an exhibit that ran at the Huntington Library from August 2013 to January 2014. He lives in Riverside, California.