Lisbeth Haas (born c. 1954) is an American historian and anthropologist. She is best known for her research into Indian and Hispanic societies in California and the Spanish colonial period. Much of her research centres on women, and she is the head of feminist studies at the

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. In 1996, she published ''Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936'' under the

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, which documents Californian history and ethnic identify in the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, with a particular focus on

Chicano Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States. The label ''Chicano'' is sometimes used interchangeably with ''Mexican American'', although the terms have different meanings. While Mexican-American ident ...

identity in the

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and Santa Ana area of

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. In 2012, she published ''Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California'', which involved research and analysis into indigenous paintings at various Californian missions, illustrating how "native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways".

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21st-century American historians American anthropologists American women anthropologists American feminists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Santa Cruz faculty American women historians 21st-century American women {{US-historian-stub