Steven Hackel

history professor at UC Riverside and the author of the biography “Junípero Serra: California’s Founding Father.”

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Born and raised in California, Hackel earned his B.A. at Stanford University and his Ph.D. in American History from Cornell University with specializations in early America and the American West. From 1994 to 1996 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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