Dr.
Jesús F. de la
Teja:
Jesús F. de la Teja
received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from
Seton Hall University and his Doctorate from the University of Texas at
Austin.
While serving as Archivist and later Director of Archives and Records
at the
Texas General Land Office, Dr. de la Teja also taught at Austin
Community College
in the latter 1980s. Since 1991 he has held an appointment as Professor
of
History at Texas State University in San Marcos.
Dr.
de la Teja is a prolific author. Publications such as San Antonio
de Béxar:
A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier and A Revolution
Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N.
Seguín have
earned commendations such as the Summerfield G. Roberts Award and the
Presidio
La Bahía Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas. He is
co-author of a
collegiate reader entitled The Human Tradition in Texas and a
brand new
text with Ron Tyler and Paula Mitchell Marks entitled Texas:
Crossroads of
North America. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous
journals,
including the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, American
Historical Review,
and the Journal of American History.
A Fellow of both the Texas
State Historical Association and the Texas
Catholic Historical Society, he has served as Book Review Editor of the
Southwestern
Historical Quarterly for the last seven years. He is also an active
presenter at historical conferences throughout Texas and the Republic
of
Mexico.