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 is the general editor of the Huntington Library’s Early California Population Project and directs a project in digital history, the Early California Cultural Atlas. He is co-curator of the Huntington Library's exhibit, Junípero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions. He lives in Pasadena, California.