Biography and expertise
Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Anthropology
Univ of California-Los Angeles, 2006
Master's Degree
MA in Anthropology
Univ of California-Los Angeles, 2001
Bachelor's Degree
BA in History and Geography
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1991
Featured grants
- Rivaya-Martinez, Joaquin. Research Enhancement Grant, Texas State University, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: 2023 - 2024). Grant.
- de la Torre Curiel, José Refugio (Principal), Rivaya-Martinez, Joaquin (Supporting). El gran norte novohispano-mexicano en el tiempo y el espacio: estudios sobre poblaciones y territorios en perspectiva comparada, CONACyT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, the Mexican equivalent of NSF), Other, $153000. (Funded: 2016 - 2019). Grant.
- Rivaya-Martinez, Joaquin. Research Enhancement Grant, Texas State University, Texas State University, $7891.66. (Funded: 2008 - 2009). Grant.
- Rivaya-Martinez, Joaquin. Wenner-Gren Foundation Research Grant, $18778. (Funded: 2004 - 2005). Grant.
- Rivaya-Martinez, Joaquin. UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant, $11523.6. (Funded: 2004 - 2005). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Rivaya-Martinez, J. (2023). Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas. The University of Oklahoma Press.
- Rivaya-Martinez, J. (2023). The Unsteady Comanchería: A Reexamination of Power in the Indigenous Borderlands of the Eighteenth-Century Greater Southwest. The William and Mary Quarterly, 80(2), 251–286.
- Rivaya-Martinez, J. (2022). Trespassers in the Land of Plenty: Comanche Raiding across the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1846-1853. In Along These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border, co-edited by Andrew Torget and Gerardo Gurza (pp. 48–73). North Carolina University Press.
- Rivaya-Martinez, J. (2021). Territorialidad y territorio entre los nómadas del norte de Nueva España y México. El caso comanche. Memorias de La Academia Mexicana de La Historia, 125–166. Retrieved from https://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/pubs.php
- Rivaya-Martinez, J. (2014). A Different Look at Native American Depopulation: Comanche Raiding, Captive Taking, and Population Decline. Ethnohistory, 61(3), 391–418.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies ($2,000), Center for the Study of the Southwest (Texas State University). 2015 - 2018
- Award / Honor Recipient: COLA Award of Excellence in Research Funding and Sponsored Programs, Texas State University. July 22, 2026 - Present
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, Texas State University. 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Ray Allen Billington Prize for the best article in the field of western history, Western History Association. August 22, 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Robert F. Heizer Article Award honorable mention for the best peer-reviewed work in the field of ethnohistory, American Society for Ethnohistory. August 2, 2024
Featured service activities
- Member
Institutional Liaison, The Southwest Seminar Consortium on Colonial Latin America
- Other
Interview with author Dustin Tahmahkera on his book Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022) for New Books Network
- Other
Interview with author Paul Conrad on his book The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) for New Books Network
- Other
Interview with author Alex Hidalgo on his book Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019) for New Books Network en Español
- Other
Interview with author Luis Alberto García García on his book Frontera armada. Prácticas militares en el noreste histórico, siglos XVII al XIX (Ciudad de México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2021) for New Books Network en Español
- Editorial Review Board Member
Ethnohistory