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FEATURED SPEAKER: Professor Ruben G. Mendoza, P h.D.

Speakers Fee: From $450.00+ [Central Coast]
Medium: Multimedia Slide & Video Presentation
DVD/CD Version Available: Yes
Availability: California Central Coast & Bay area, or by prior arrangement and negotiation as per expense and travel.


Topics Addressed:

Skywatchers of the Millennial Kingdom: Astronomy and Solar Geometry in the California Missions.
San Juan Bautista: Archaeology and the California Missions.
Wireless Archaeology at the Carmel Mission Basilica
From Swords to Plowshares: Fort Ord and the Creation of CSU Monterey Bay.
Streetscapes of the Asphalt Jungle: Chicano Youth Identify and Counterculture in the US Southwest.
Cruising Art and Culture in Aztlan: Lowriders and Lowriding in the American Southwest.

Ruben G. Mendoza is an archaeologist, explorer, adventurer, and self-taught photographer with wide experience in visual anthropology, documentary photography, digital imaging and QuickTime VR. His insights and photography have been presented before both lay and scholarly audiences in the US, Europe, and Mexico. He has exhibited with the University of Arizona, Colorado's Loveland Museum, the Environmental Protection Agency, Mexican Consulate of Denver, Auraria Higher Education Center Library, Tucson's Church of Scientology, and San Jose's Mexican Heritage Plaza.

His works have been featured in Antiquity, World Archaeology, American Antiquity; Salem Press editions of America's Historic Sites, McGill's Guide to Military History, Encyclopedia of North American History, and The Latino Encyclopedia; the Arte Publico Press edition of Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States; Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures; Kluwer's Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures and Medicine Across Cultures; Blackwell's Cultural Diversity in the United States; C. Winter edition of U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures; Scribner's Sons Encyclopedia of Food and Culture; and the Greenwood Press edition of The Southwest: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures.


Educational Media

Recent projects by Professor Mendoza include multimedia and educational courseware development efforts with Scholastic Inc., Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill, Salem Press, and Terra Associates of New York. Professor Mendoza is currently the featured Literacy Place Mentor for Scholastic's popular Time Detectives grade school curriculum and Solares Spanish language programs currently in use throughout the nation. His archaeology digs span the Colorado Rockies and US Southwest, the California missions, and Mexican sites; and his efforts have garnered attention from CNN Headline News (CNN), Fox News, and in the Associated Press.

Professor Mendoza interview with CNN Headline News, 1998. Scholastic Inc., 1996. Greenwood Press
Speaker's Bureau Requests

If you or your organization would like to schedule a multimedia and or photography presentation by archaeologist, photographer, and adventurer Ruben G. Mendoza, please contact our Speaker's Bureau representative for information regarding speaker's honorarium or event fees at: info@ancienteditions.com

Available Presentations by Professor Mendoza:

Sacrament of the Sun: Astronomy and Solar Geometry in the California Missions.
Skywatchers of the Millennial Kingdom: Astronomy and Solar Geometry in the California Missions.
San Juan Bautista: Archaeology and the California Missions.
Wireless Archaeology at the Carmel Mission Basilica.
From Swords to Plowshares: Fort Ord and the Creation of CSU Monterey Bay.
Streetscapes of the Asphalt Jungle: Chicano Youth Identify and Counterculture in the US Southwest.
Cruising Art and Culture in Aztlán: Lowriders and Lowriding in the American Southwest.
Note: Speaker's fees are payable to Ancient Editions, P.O. Box 10083, Salinas, CA 93912. Fees for public presentations by Professor Ruben Mendoza vary according to topic addressed, anticipated group size, travel time, expenses, and venue. For public presentations within Monterey and San Benito Counties, Speaker's Fees range from $350 to $1200 plus expenses depending on anticipated group size and venue. For other areas of California and the nation, please contact info@ancienteditions.com for event fees and honoraria. McGraw-Hill/Natl Geo, 2000. Scholastic Inc., 1996.
 
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