Past Fellows

BIG Dallas signClements Center Research Fellowships provide senior or junior scholars with an essential element for producing successful books, and that is time.

Below is a list of each fellowship year, the fellow's name, the fellowship name, their institutional affiliation*, manuscript or book title, and press, if under contract or published. 

*Affiliations may not be up to date.

 

 

2025 - 2026

Leonard V. Smith
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, Oberlin College

Liberalism and Law in Texas and French Algeria in the Nineteenth Century

 
Adrian V. Chavana
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University

Becoming Gente de Razon: The San Antonio Mission Indians and their Descendants

 
Cori L. Simon
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma

Shadowland: Indian Territory's Contested Past and Uncertain Future, 1800-1910

 
Cristina Urias-Espinoza
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, Arkansas State University, Campus Queretaro

The Mexican West: Land Speculation and the U.S. Colonization of Northwest Mexico, 1844-1936

 

2024 - 2025

Toni Ann Trevino
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, University of North Texas

San Antonio After Sundown: The War on Drugs & Envisioning Rehabilitation in Postwar Mexican Neighborhoods

 
Andrew Busch
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Associate Professor, Coastal Carolina University

High Tech Texas: Public Institutions and Political Economy in the Lone Star State

Under contract with UT Press

Alyssa Quintanilla
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of Art History and American Studies, William & Mary

Markers, Monuments, and Memorials in the United States-Mexico Borderlands

Kevan Malone
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Miami

Borderline Unsustainable: Urbanization and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

 

2023 - 2024

Jennifer Holland
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

L.R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor of US History, University of Oklahoma

Straightening Out: A History of Anti-Queer Politics in Rural America

Under contract with Basic Books

Max Flomen
The Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History

Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University

Beyond Mountains: Marronage & Revolution in the Borderlands, 1500-1850

Under contract with University of Nebraska Press

Laura Hooton
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University

Black Baja: Little Liberia and the Fight Against White Supremacy

Under contract with University of Oklahoma Press

Khalil Anthony Johnson
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University

Schooled: An Unsettling History of American Education

Under contract with University of North Carolina Press

2022 - 2023

Katherine Bynum
The Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History

Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University

Civil Rights in the ‘City of Hate’: Grassroots Organizing Against Police Brutality in Dallas

Under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press

Tiffany Gonzalez
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, University of Kansas

Representation of Change: How Chicanas Reshaped the American Political Process in the Late Twentieth Century

Under contract in the Latinx Histories Series, University of North Carolina Press

Nicholas Myers
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Historian for the National Trails Office, National Park Service, Santa Fe

The Wayward Edge: Autonomy and State-formation in Greater Apachería, 1765-1896

Michael Phillips
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Adjunct Professor of History, Texas A&M-Commerce

University of Oklahoma Press, 2025

2021 - 2022

Maggie Elmore
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, Baylor University

Unholy Border: How the United States used the Catholic Church to Regulate its Southern Border

Under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press

Adam F. Johnson
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

District 4 Commissioner, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Secretsharers: Indigenous Knowledge and the Politics of Ethnographic Documentation, 1880-1930

Christina Villarreal
The Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History

Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas-El Paso

Resisting Colonial Subjugation: Sanctuary, Asylum, and Refuge in the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1714-1803

Priscilla Solis Ybarra
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Associate Professor of Latinx Literature, University of North Texas

In the Light of Los Lunas: The Mexican American Leopolds, Reckoning with Environmentalism’s White Supremacy, and Settler Colonial Violence

2020 - 2021

Sean Harvey
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Upper School Instructor of History, Phoenix Country Day Day Assembly Lines: Maquiladoras and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1932—1992
Amy Kohout
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Colorado College Many Wests Series, University of Nebraska Press, 2023
Brennan Gardner Rivas
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU The Revolver Must Go: The Rise and Fall of a Gun Control Movement in Texas Under contract with Yale University Press
Tatiana Seijas
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University First Routes: Indigenous Commerce in Early North America

2019 - 2020

Sam Haynes
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History and Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, University of Texas-Arlington Basic Books, 2022
Natalie Mendoza
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado-Boulder The Good Neighbor at Home: Mexican American Identity and Civil Rights During World War II Under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press
Allison Powers Useche
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Oxford Legal History, Oxford University Press, 2024
Eric Schlereth
The Summerlee/Summerfield Roberts Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas-Dallas David J. Weber Series for New Borderlands History, the University of North Carolina Press, 2024

2018 - 2019

Tsianina Lomawaima
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Professor, Department of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, retired

The Land of the Free: Forging U.S. Citizens, Subjects, and Wards in the Early 20th Century
Alessandra Link
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Instructor, Louisville Collegiate School The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the U.S. West, 1853–1924 Forthcoming with Oxford University Press
Celeste R. Menchaca
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern California Borderland Visualities: Technologies of Affixing and the Production of the Nineteenth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 
Mary E. Mendoza
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University Unnatural Border: Race and Environment at the U.S.- Mexico Divide

2017 - 2018

Sarah Pearsall
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History, John Hopkins University Yale University Press, August 2019
Thomas Richards, Jr.
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
History Instructor, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Sarah K.M. Rodriguez
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
Aimee Villarreal
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Texas State University Sanctuaryscapes in the New Mexico Borderlands Forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press

2016 - 2017

Maurice Crandall
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University David J. Weber Series for New Borderlands History, the University of North Carolina Press, 2019
Farina King
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology, University of Oklahoma University Press of Kansas, 2018
Eric Meeks
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History, Northern Arizona University The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Transnational History Under contract Yale University Press.
Uzma Quraishi
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History 
Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University New Directions in Southern Studies Series with the University of North Carolina Press, 2020

2015 - 2016

Bryant Etheridge
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Military Institute Making a Workforce, Unmaking a Working Class: The Creation of a Human Capital Society in Houston, 1900-1980
Anne Hyde
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History, University of Oklahoma and editor, Western Historical Quarterly W.W. Norton, 2022
Jaime Javier Rodriguez
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of English, University of North Texas Borders of Time-Space: The Global Imaginary in South Texas Literature, a Study of Mexican-American Writing in the Early 20th Century
David Dorado Romo
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Writer, Museum Curator, Historian, Cultural Activist Axis & Allied Propaganda and Intelligence Along the US-Mexico Border: A Global Microhistory of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, 1933-1945

2014 - 2015

Gavin Benke
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
Senior Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program, Boston University University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018
Sami Lakomaki
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher
University Lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland Indigenous Lands, Colonial Empires, and Nation-States: Shawnee and Sámi Spaces and Borders in North America and Fennoscandia, 1500–1900
Douglas K. Miller
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Oklahoma State University Critical Indigeneities Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2019
Andrew Offenburger
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio Yale University Press, 2019
Rachel St. John
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, University of California-Davis The Imagined States of America: The Unmanifest History of Nineteenth-century North America Under contract with Harvard University Press

2013 - 2014

Neel Baumgardner
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Lecturer in History, University of Texas at San Antonio Bordering North America: Constructing Wilderness Along the Periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States
William deBuys
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Conservationist and Writer (with David. J. Weber) Yale University Press, 2017
Benjamin Francis-Fallon
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives Harvard University Press, 2019
Max Krochmal
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
Professor of U.S. History and the Czech Republic Endowed Professor and Director of Justice Studies at the University of New Orleans Justice, Power, and Politics Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2016
Julie L. Reed
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University New Directions in Native American Studies Series, University of Oklahoma Press, 2016

2012 - 2013

Paul Conrad
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas-Arlington America in the Nineteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
Darren Dochuk
The Inaugural Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History, University of Notre Dame Basic Books, 2019
Ruben Flores
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor History, University of Rochester Politics and Culture in Modern America Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Paula Lupkin
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of Art History, University of North Texas The Great Southwest: Trade, Territory, and Regional Architecture
Tyina Steptoe
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona American Crossroads Series, University of California Press, 2015

2011 - 2012

Joseph Abel
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
Research Historian at Baltimore Museum of Industry Sunbelt Civil Rights: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Aircraft Manufacturing Industry of Texas, 1940-1980
Katrina Jagodinsky
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Lincoln The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2016
Susan Lee Johnson
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West, University of Nevada-Las Vegas University of North Carolina Press, December 2020
Sascha Scott
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of American Art, Syracuse University Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West, University of Oklahoma Press, 2015
Andrew J.Torget
The Inaugural David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History, University of North Texas David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, 2015

2010 - 2011

Daniel Arreola
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Arizona State University, retired University of Texas Press, 2013
Sami Lakomaki
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
University Lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2014
Matthew Liebmann
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Department, Harvard University University of Arizona Press, 2012
Jason Mellard
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Assistant Professor & Director, Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University at San Marcos University of Texas Press, 2013
Elizabeth Hayes Turner
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
University Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Texas, retired Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration

2009 - 2010

Norwood Andrews
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Independent Scholar Healing Professions in Killing States: The Death Penalty, Medicine, and Society in Britain and Texas
Cathleen Cahill
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor in Middle-American History
Pennsylvania State University
University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Sarah Cornell
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Senior Lecturer of History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Americans in the U.S. South and Mexico: A Transnational History of Race, Slavery, and Freedom, 1810-1925
Raúl Coronado
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley Harvard University Press, 2013
Stephanie Lewthwaite
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor in American History, University of Nottingham, U.K. University of Oklahoma Press, 2015

2008 - 2009

Robert T. Chase
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, State University of New York-Stony Brook Justice, Power, and Politics Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Raphael B. Folsom
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2014
Miguel Ángel González Quiroga
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor, Colegio de Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
David E. Narrett
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington University of North Carolina Press, 2014
John W. Weber
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, 2015

2007 - 2008

Daniel Herman
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History, Central Washington University The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2010
Jacqueline Moore
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
United States Foreign Service in Public Diplomacy New York University Press, 2009
Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies, Texas State University Captivity and Adoption Among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875
Julia María Schiavone Camacho
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Goshen College University of North Carolina Press, 2012

2006 - 2007

S. Deborah Kang
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History and John L. Nau III Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia Oxford University Press, 2017
Andrew Needham
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, New York University Politics and Society in 20th Century America Series, Princeton University Press, 2014
Monica Perales
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Associate Vice Provost, University of Texas-San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Cynthia Radding
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Latin American Landscapes Series, University of Arizona Press, 2022
Chris Wilson
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Regents Professor of Landscape Architecture emeritus, University of New Mexico. Trinity University Press, 2011

2005 - 2006

David Wallace Adams
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor Emeritus of Education and History, Cleveland State University University Press of Kansas, 2016
Brian DeLay
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Preston Hotchkis Chair and Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2008
Eric Meeks
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History, Northern Arizona University University of Texas Press, 2007; reprint with a foreword by Patricia Limerick Nelson, 2020

2004 - 2005

Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Human Dimensions of Organizations, University of Texas University of New Mexico Press, 2008
Brian Frehner
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City University of Nebraska Press, 2011
Andrew R. Graybill
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History, Texas Christian University University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Henry Totanes
Fulbright Fellow
Associate Professor of History at Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines A Comparative Study of Franciscan Missions in the American Southwest and the Diocese of Nueva Caceres in Kabikolan, Philippines

2003 - 2004

Deborah Cohen
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri, St. Louis University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Marc Rodriguez
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of History at Portland State University and Editor, Pacific Historical Review University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Sylvia Rodríguez
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor emeritus of Anthropology and Director of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, University of New Mexico SAR Press, 2006

2002 - 2003

Flannery Burke
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of American Studies, St. Louis University University Press of Kansas, May 2008
Colleen O'Neill
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History, Utah State University and Coeditor, Western Historical Quarterly University Press of Kansas, 2005
Tisa Wenger
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Professor of American Religious History, Yale Divinity School University of North Carolina Press, 2009

2001 - 2002

Omar Valerio-Jiménez
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at San Antonio Duke University Press, 2013
Martina Will de Chaparro
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History
Independent Scholar University of New Mexico Press, 2007
Pekka Hämäläinen
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Rhodes Professor of History and Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, U.K.

The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2008

Andrea Kökény
Fulbright Scholar
Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Modern History and Mediterranean Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary Anglo-Americans in Texas, 1821-1845

2000 - 2001

Martin Padget
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Førsteamanuensis/Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences University of New Mexico Press, 2004
Raúl A.Ramos
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
Associate Professor of History, University of Houston University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Marsha Weisiger
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History
Rocky and Julie Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History, Department of History, University of Oregon Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series, University of Washington Press, 2009

1999 - 2000

Juliana Barr
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
Associate Professor of History, Duke University University of North Carolina Press, 2007
William deBuys
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History
Conservationist and Writer Island Press, 2001
Heather Trigg
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Research Scientist, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts University of Arizona Press, 2005

1998 - 1999

Steven Reich
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
Professor of History, James Madison University. The Making of a Southern Sawmill World: Race, Class, and Rural Transformation in the Piney Woods of East Texas, 1830-1930
James Snead
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge University of Arizona Press, 2001

1997 - 1998

James Miller
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
Associate Professor of History, Carleton University University of Virginia Press, 2002
Samuel Truett
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Associate Professor of History & Director, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2006

1996 - 1997

Gregg Cantrell
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair of History, Texas Christian University, retired The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 1999. Reprint from the Texas State Historical Association, 2016.
Nancy Beck Young
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston SMU Press, 2000