Antonia Castañeda, born in Tejas and raised in Washington, received her BA from Western Washington State College, MA from the University of Washington, and Ph.D. from Stanford University.  She held teaching appointments in Chicano Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in the Departments of History, University of Texas at Austin, and St. Mary’s University. 

She is the author of numerous articles, including the prizing winning “Women of Color and the Re-Writing of Western History.”   Her most recent work is the co-edited anthology, Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).

With Dr. Deena González, Castaneda is co-editor of the Chicana Matters Series, University of Texas Press. She serves on the Boards of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and the  Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center; she volunteers at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center,  A founding member of MALCS, Dr. Castañeda received the NACCS Scholar of the Year award in 2007.