Iris Higbie Wilson Engstrand (born January 9, 1935) is a retired American academic. She was professor of history at University of San Diego from 1968 until 2017; she joined the faculty of the San Diego College for Men before it and other colleges joined to form the university in 1972.[1]
Iris H. Wilson in 1963
She specialized in the history of California and Spanish exploration during the 1700s,[2] and as of 2017 had written about twenty books on those subjects.[1]
She was born in 1935 in Los Angeles and earned her B.A. (1956), M.A. (1957), and Ph.D. (1962) from the University of Southern California.[2] Her dissertation topic was "Scientific Aspects of Spanish Exploration in New Spain during the Late Eighteenth Century," and was supervised by Donald C. Cutter.[4] She began her teaching career in the Huntington Beach High School from 1957 to 1959, and then worked as a translator of Spanish manuscripts for the Los Angeles County Museum, 1959-60.[5] She became a lecturer at the University of Southern California in 1962, and an instructor at Long Beach City College in 1962.[5]
Selected works
Engstrand, Iris Wilson (2016). San Diego: California's Cornerstone (2nd ed.). Sunbelt Publications. ISBN9781941384244.
Engstrand, Iris H.W. (1981). Spanish scientists in the New World : the eighteenth-century expeditions. Seattle: Univ. of Washington P. ISBN978-0295957647.
Engstrand, Iris H. W. (11 December 2015). "The Enlightenment in Spain: Influences Upon New World Policy". The Americas. 41 (4): 436–444. doi:10.2307/1007350. JSTOR1007350.
Engstrand, Iris H. W., & Bullard, Anne. (1999). Inspired by nature: The San Diego Natural History Museum After 125 years. San Diego Natural History Museum.[6]
Engstrand, Iris H. W (February 2000). "Of Fish and Men: Spanish Marine Science during the Late Eighteenth Century". Pacific Historical Review. 69 (1): 3–30. doi:10.2307/3641236. JSTOR3641236.
^ ab"Wilson, Iris Higbie," in Historians of Latin America in the United States, 1965: Biobibliographies of 680 Specialists. Ed. Howard F. Cline. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1966, 95.