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About Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
Dr. Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez is a professor of History at Texas State University. He holds a licenciatura in History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and MA and PhD degrees in Anthropology from UCLA. He is a fellow of SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies. He specializes in the early history of the Indigenous peoples of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the southern Great Plains. His main lines of inquiry include Spanish-Indigenous relations, captivity, and the presence of U.S.-based independent Natives in nineteenth-century Mexico. His scholarship combines extensive archival research in Mexico, Spain, the United States, and France with the use of ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and environmental evidence, as well as personal interviews with contemporary Indigenous consultants. He conducts his research in close contact with members of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. Various institutions have funded his multidisciplinary research at home and abroad, including The Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Newberry Library, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and Mexico’s CONACyT. Dr. Rivaya-Martínez is the author of numerous essays and the editor of the volume Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas (University of Oklahoma Press, 2023). He is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally titled Comanche Captivity.Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez es profesor de Historia en Texas State University. Sus intereses académicos incluyen la etnohistoria, los pueblos indígenas de las Grandes Llanuras y el Suroeste de EE.UU., la frontera México-EE.UU. y la América hispánica.
NBN Episodes hosted by Joaquín:
March 21, 2026
The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire
The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire (Duke UP, 2025) tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire …
January 12, 2025
Indigenous Autonomy at La Junta de Los Rios
Today I talked to Robert Wright about Indigenous Autonomy at La Junta de Los Rios: Traders, Allies, and Migrants on New Spain's Northern Frontier (Tex…
April 26, 2024
The History of a Periphery
During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here …
September 4, 2023
Since Time Immemorial
In Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico (Duke UP, 2023), Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal ca…
March 25, 2023
Lakhota
The Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with …
December 16, 2022
Bountiful Deserts
Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustena…
June 7, 2022
Cinematic Comanches
For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops in 1875, when the last free Comanches entered…
May 10, 2022
The Apache Diaspora
In The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Paul Conrad brings to life the stories of displaced …