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Stephen J. C. Andes received his doctorate in Mexican history at Oxford University. He is an associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. Andes is the author of two books on Mexican history, including The Mysterious Sofía: One Woman’s Mission to Save Catholicism in Twentieth-Century Mexico, as well as the co-editor of an anthology called Local Church, Global Church. He won the Latin American Studies Association’s Best Dissertation Prize. Andes was one of the first scholars to be granted access to the Vatican Secret Archives’ recently declassified files on the Mexican Revolution. He is the recipient of a year-long writing fellowship from the Louisiana Board of Regents’ Award for Artists and Scholars. He has studied at archives in Mexico, the United States, and Europe; he’s visited the birthplace of Joaquin Murrieta, one the legendary proto-type figures for the Zorro character, and has traveled to the major sites associated with early California history. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Andes lives with his wife and three children in Baton Rouge, LA and Eugene, Oregon.