Monica I. Orozco (born in Santa Barbara, California) is a historian and archivist. She is the Director of the Santa Barbara Mission-Archive Library as well as Executive Director of Mission Santa Barbara.[1] She earned her doctorate in History at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999, completing her dissertation entitled "Protestant Missionaries, Mexican Liberals, Nationalism and the Issue of Cultural Incorporation of Indians, 1870-1900." The dissertation focuses on the opening to foreign Protestants during the liberal era in Mexico, and their shared aim of incorporating indigenous culturally. She has published a portion of her dissertation.[2]
Monica I. Orozco | |
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| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Occupation | Historian & Archivist |
She taught Latin American history at University of California, Santa Barbara, Westmont College,[3] and Santa Barbara City College. She also worked as an editor at ABC-CLIO.[4] Since 2009 she has served as the second lay director and professional archivist at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. In 2016 she became the first lay executive director of the Santa Barbara Mission.[5][6] She is featured in a C-SPAN program on the Santa Barbara Mission and the Mission Archive-Library, highlighting the importance of both to the cultural life of the American West, California history, and indigenous history.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Noozhawk (25 July 2016). "New Santa Barbara Mission Executive Director Monica Orozco Ready to Engage Community".
- ^ "'Not to be called Christian': Protestant Perspectives of Latin American Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Latin America," in Religion and Society in Latin America: Interpretive Essays from Conquest to Present. Edited by Lee M. Penyak and Walter J. Petry. Orbis, 2009. ISBN 978-1570758508
- ^ "Westmont - History". www.westmont.edu.
- ^ "Monica Orozco Named New Director at Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library". 23 August 2009.
- ^ "The S.B. Questionnaire: Monica Orozco". www.independent.com.
- ^ "Monica Orozco's Mission Mission". www.independent.com. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ "Old Mission Santa Barbara Library and Archives". C-SPAN.org.
External links
edit- C-SPAN documentary on the Santa Barbara Mission and Mission Archive-Library
- Roger Durling, "The S.B. Questionnaire: Monica Orozco", Santa Barbara Independent. 12 September 2016
- Sam Goldman, "New Santa Barbara Mission Executive Director Monica Orozco Ready to Engage Community", Noozhawk 25 July 2016
- Matt Kettman, "Monica Orozco's Mission Mission" Santa Barbara Independent. 3 August 2016
- "Monica Orozco named new director at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library," History Department, University of California, Santa Barbara announcement
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