MEMBER INTERESTS:
CMSA members' interests and professions embrace such fields as archaeology, anthropology, architecture, art, music, history, religious studies, Native American studies and historic preservation. Some members' interest in these areas is avocational while for others it is vocational. Some members are docents at missions or independent scholars or genealogists, while others are active architects, archaeologists, historical consultants, history professors, musicologists, attorneys, landscape historians, archivists, winemakers, video producers, or museum curators. Most members live in the United States but a growing number are from Mexico. The membership also includes Native Californians, and Catholic priests have been members from the beginning although CMSA is non-denominational and not associated with the Catholic Church.
MEMBER BENEFITS:
As a member of the California Mission Studies Association
(CMSA), you will receive the CMSA electronic newsletter, Correo,
which has items of interest to members and researchers, notice of
mission-related events, discussion of current issues, and announcement
and status reports on projects being
conducted by CMSA members.
You will also receive the CMSA Journal, the Boletín,
which contains scholarly articles about the
Mission Era written
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and announcement and status
reports on
projects being conducted by CMSA members. See our Journals page for a listing of articles in
past Boletínes.
You will also be invited to the CMSA Annual Meeting and Conference, held each year at a selected Mission site.
Membership runs for the calendar year. If you are a new
member
joining in
August or after, payment will apply toward next year's membership.
Renewals
are due in January. All dues and contributions are tax deductible.
Please direct all membership inquiries to Carrie Fogg, 291 First
Street, West, Sonoma, CA 95476
