Ph.D. Recipients
2020 - Present
- Samantha Shine Trabucco, 鈥淩eturning to Roots: The History of Adobe and Earthen Structures in San Antonio,
Texas,鈥
Advisor: Ra煤l Ramos
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago - Seth Whitty, 鈥淔earocracy: Race, Slavery, and Conspiracies in Nineteenth Century Tennessee.鈥
Advisor: Matt Clavin
- John Fairchild, 鈥淭hey Intend to Conduct Us Out of Their Country: The Choctaw Diaspora"
Advisor: Todd Romero
Current Position: Historian, National Park Service, Golden Spike National Historical Park - Caitlyn Jones, "The Most Important Event Nobody Knows About:' The 1977 National Women's Conference
in Public Memory"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Mellon Fellow, National Park Service, Belmont-Paul Women鈥檚 Equality National Monument - Karla Lira, "For the City: Latinx and Black College Athletes in Houston 1939 - 1975"
Advisor:
Current Position: Lecturer, 91破解版 - Allison S谩enz, "Being a U.S. Central American: Migration, Culture, and Ethnicity in Houston Post-1965"
Advisors: Monica Perales and Mark A Goldberg
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Utah
- Derek Ide, "The Anticolonial International: Black Internationalism and the Palestinian Revolution,
1965-73"
Advisor: Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan - Alex Paul, "Unwilling Doughboys: The U.S. Army鈥檚 Foreign-Born Conscripts in World War I"
Advisor: Jimmy Schafer - Darah Vann, "Roman Rape Culture: The Pervasiveness of Sexual Violence in Augustan Era Rome"
Advisor: Kristina Neumann - Ezell Wilson, "Inhabiting Par谩, Brazil: Landscapes of Resistance, 1750-1850"
Advisor: Philip Howard
- Timothy Vale, "Lone-Star Strong: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Transformation of Texas鈥檚 LGBTQ
Communities"
Advisor: Jimmy Schafer
- Quentin Adams, "Laudianism in the North: The Impact of Laudianism in the Archdeaconry of Nottingham鈥
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Teacher, Second Baptist School, Houston, TX - Ramiro Contreras, "Mexican Inclusion and Exclusion in Houston from 1900-1940"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Instructional Designer at Circle - Matthew Finnie, "The Dry Bones Speak: Hero Cult and the Staging of Heroes in Ancient Athens"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Lecturer in Philosophy and Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio - Gary Girod, "The Rise of the Information State: Domestic Surveillance in France and Britain during
World War I"
Advisor: Sarah Fishman - Kim Goodling, 鈥淧rivateering in the American Revolution: Its Effectiveness, Its Annoyance, and
the British Assault on Connecticut鈥
Advisor: Matthew Clavin - Francesca Guerri, 鈥淭he Friendship Network of Matilda of Tuscany: Reconstructing Matilda鈥檚 Motivation
and Ideology through the Lens of Her Individual Relationships鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Assistant Professor of European History, University of St. Thomas - Kevin Johnson, 鈥淎n Inglorious War: The US Civil War, Guerrilla Fighting and the American Plains Indians鈥
Advisor: Ra煤l Ramos - Alberto Wilson III, 鈥淧an American Cities: Sunbelt Development and Mexican Community Formation in El Paso
and Ciudad Jua虂rez, 1945-1994鈥
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Latinx History, Wichita State University
- Anna Marie Anderson, 鈥淏rothers in Arms? African Americans and Jewish American Prisoners of War in World
War II Europe"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Texas Central College, Corinth; Faculty Fellow, Texas Community College Teachers Association (TCCTA) for 2021-2022 - Lindsay Drane, "Too Poor to Eat: A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Research Manager at Hunger Free America and ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Recipient - Ela Miljkovic, "The Air of the City: Atmospheric Dialogues in the Making of Landscape in Mexcio City"
Advisor: Richard Mizelle
Current Position: Stevens Historical Research Associates, Boise, ID - Timothy Quevillon, "From Palestine to Howard Beach and Houston: Meir Kahane, Moshe Cahana, and the Anti-Colonialism
of American Civil Rights Struggle"
Advisors: Mark Goldberg and Leandra Zarnow
Current Position: Instructional Professor, Kansas State University - Tara Sewell-Lasater, "Becoming Kleopatra: Royal Marriage, Incest, and the Path to Female Rule"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Assistant Director of University Studies at Montana State University
2010 - 2019
- Crescida Jacobs, 鈥淏iography of Mabel of Belleme (1030-1082)鈥
Advisor: Sarah Fishman
Current Position: Professor of History and Humanities, Houston Community College Northwest College - Alex LaRotta, "Young, Gifted, and Brown: The History of San Antonio's West Side Sound"
- Advisors: Monica Perales and Mark Goldberg
Current Position: Houston Community College; 2019-2021 Postdoctoral Research Scholar Fellowship, Columbia University - Eric McDonald, "Violent Identity: Elite Manhood and Power in Early Barbados"
Advisor: Todd Romero
Current Position: Southern New Hampshire University - Curtis Mooney, "From Moral to Immoral Treatment: The Failure to Fund the Treatment of the Seriously
Mentally Ill in Texas and the Nation, 1860-2018"
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Retired; Research materials are at TMC in a special archive - Gianncarlo Muschi, "Peruvian Immigration to the United States"
Advisor: Natalia Milanesio
Current Position: Independent Scholar/Austin Independent School District (Barbara Jordan Early College Prep School Elementary School) - Mallory Neil, "Curating the Nation: Gender, Class and Empire at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Assistant Director of Experiential Learning/PhD Plus Graduate Career Advisor, University of Virginia
- Deanne Ashton, 鈥淭he Industrialization of English Brewing in the Long Nineteenth Century鈥
Advisor: Karl Ittmann - Rikki Bettinger, "Imperial Counterparts: North Atlantic Women's Travels in the Caribbean and Mexico,
1800-1860"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Associate Director of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards, University of Houston - Daniel Mendiola, "Constructing Imperial Spaces: The Spanish and Mosquito Conquests of Eighteenth-Century
Central America"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Vassar College - Samantha 搁辞诲谤铆驳耻别锄, 鈥淐arving Spaces for Feminism and Nationalism: Texas Chicana Activism in the Matrix of Social Unrest, 1967-1978鈥
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Professor of History and Humanities, Houston Community College - Joseph L. Thompson, "Something Like a Failed War: Major League Baseball's Unwinnable Conflict against
Drugs"
Advisors: James Kirby Martin and Linda Reed
Current Position: Adjunct Lecturer, Bauer College of Business, 91破解版
Publication: Co-authored, Mexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas (Arcadia Publishing, 2017) - Ty Welborn, 鈥淟one Star Crusader: Antonio Maceo Smith and the Texas Civil Rights Movement鈥
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Program Director of History, Phoenix College
- Ally Castillo, 鈥淐onstructing Race: The Catholic Church and the Evolution of Racial Categories and
Gender in Colonial Mexico, 1521-1700鈥
Advisor: Susan Kellogg - Sandra Davidson, 鈥淧ropaganda, Pressure, and Patriotism: The Texas Council of Defense and the Politics
of Gender, Race, and Class during World War I鈥
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Project Manager, Center for Public History, 91破解版 - Brett Olmstead, 鈥淟os Mexicanos de Michigan: Claiming Space and Creating Community Through Leisure
and Labor, 1920-1970鈥
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Humble High School
- Tracy Butler, "Selling Mexico: Race, Gender & American Influence in Cancun, 1970-2000"
Advisor: Thomas O'Brien
Current Position: Adjunct for History and WGSS, 91破解版 - Carlos L. Cant煤, "Self-Determined Education and Community Activism: A Comparative History of Navajo,
Chicana/o, and Puerto Rican Institutions of Higher Education in the Era of Protest"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Independent Researcher - Sandra Enriquez, "El Barrio Unido Jam谩s Ser谩 Vencido!': Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community
Preservation in El Paso, Texas"
Advisor: Monica Perales
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public History Emphasis, University of Missouri, Kansas City - Christopher Haight, "From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence
Movement"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Houston Community College - Benjamin Hoffman, "A College for the Community? : A Comparison of the Histories of an Urban (San Antonio
College) and Rural (Navarro College) Community College in Texas"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, University of Delaware - Allison Robinson, "Troubling Gender: Southern Women, State Carceral Policy, and the Myth of the Pedestal"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Consultant, The Alexander Group - John Huntington, "Right-Wing Paranoid Blues: The Role of Radicalism in Modern Conservatism"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Houston Community College
Publication: Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) - Frances Ann Marcinkiewicz-Joseph, "Demetrius I of Bactria: An Analysis of Hellenistic Royal Power Through Numismatic
Evidence"
Advisor: Frank Holt
Current Position: Independent Researcher, The Hague, Netherlands - Andrew Joseph Pegoda, "If You Do Not Like The Past, Change It: The Real Civil Rights Revolution, Historical
Memory, and the Making of Utopian Pasts"
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Lecturer, WGSS, 91破解版 - Juan Galvan Rodriguez, "Historical Memory, Proto-Nationalism, And Nationalism in Mexico: Southwestern Puebla
From 1519 To 1862"
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and Humanities, Lone Star College-Kingwood - Julie Sarpy, "Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders and the Case for
Feudal Constraint"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Liaison Librarian at Nova Southeastern University, Miami, Florida - Katie Streit, "Beyond Borders: A History of Mobility, Labor and Imperialism in Southern Tanzania"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, Franklin College (Indiana) - Savannah Williamson, "Caring for Human Property: A Medical Biography of American Slavery, 1808-1865"
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and DEI Coordinator (Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), Sul Ross University
Grant: Co-PI, NSF STEM grant, 2020-2026 (to develop, implement, revise, organize a minimum of twelve training modules鈥攑ertaining to equity, inclusion, and diversity鈥攆or faculty mentors and students in STEM fields who intend to become educators) - Jeffrey Womack, "Uncertainty Medicine: The Development of Radiation Therapy. 1895-1925"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Instructor, Penn State Brandywine
Publications: Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy, an Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
- James Arlington, "The Art of Manipulation: Agents of Influence and the Rise of the American Security
State, 1914-1960"
Advisor: Gerald Horne
Current Position: Spanish Teacher, Wichita Falls Independent School District - Brittany Hancock, "The Neighborhood Union and the Transformation of the West Side of Atlanta"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Central Texas College - Daniel LeClaire, "A New Period of Great Guns: Edward Boxer, the Ordnance Select Committee, and the
Weapons Development Process in mid-19th c. England"
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Historian, 71st Training Wing, Vance AFB
Publications: The British Military Revolution of the Nineteenth Century: The Great Gun Question and the Modernization of Ordnance and Administration (McFarland, 2019). - Guillermo Nakhl茅, "Economics in History: The Apologetic Science in Argentina, 1913-1953"
Advisor: Thomas O'Brien
Current Position: Profesor Asociado, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
- Jordan Bauer, "Sunbelt Growing Pains: Urban Environmental Politics in North Carolina's Research
Triangle, 1950-2000"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Credentialed Course Instructor, History, University of Alabama at Birmingham - Ira Lee Berlet, "Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863"
Advisor: Eric Walther - Maria Corsi, "Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to
14 centuries"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Archivist at the Massad Family Research Center and Assistant Archivist of the Hilton College Archives, 91破解版
Publications: Urbanization in Viking Age and Medieval Denmark: From Landing Place to Town (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). - Mahdi Domitrovich, "An Examination of Prevailing Economic Thought as a Neglection of Ethics and Historical
Analysis"
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Teacher, Houston Independent School District - Natalie M. Garza, "Mexico Flotante: Migration, Culture, and National Identity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico"
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College Central - John Goins, "Confronting Itself: The AIDS Crisis and the LGBT Community in Houston"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Kyle T. Goyette, "Southern Discomfort: The Equal Rights Amendment, the New Right, and the Southernization
of American Politics"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young - Clarissa Hinojosa, "'A Man Moste Meet': A Nationwide Survey of Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England,
1547-1582"
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Independent scholar and adjunct instructor, Austin, TX - Alejandra Jaramillo, "Litigious Paupers: Natives and Colonial Demands in Tlaxcala, 1545-1800"
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Professor, History, San Jacinto College North Campus - Michael Phifer, "Property, Power, and Patriarchy: The Decline of Women's Property Right in England
after the Black Death"
Advisor: Robert Palmer - Natalie Schuster, "Political Disasters: The Politics of U.S. Disaster Relief, 1927-2005"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
- Julie Cohn, "Biography of a Technology: The North American Power Grid Through the Twentieth Century"
Advisors: Martin Melosi and Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Research Historian at the Center for Public History
Publications: The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (MIT Press, 2017) - Kristen Contos Krueger, "From Problem Girls to Welfare Queens: Teenage Pregnancy and Public Policy, 1950-1980"
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Adjunct Professor of History, Lonestar College Cy-Fair - Kelsie Jackson, "Such a Tornado: The Life and Times of James Thomson Callander, Scandalmonger"
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Project Manager of Grants, Research, and Innovation, J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts, Texas Tech
- Debbie Z. Harwell, "'Like a Long-Handled Spoon': How Wednesdays in Mississippi United Women Across Regional,
Racial, and Religious Lines"
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Instructional Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the 91破解版; Editor of Houston History Magazine
Publications: Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964 (University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for Best Book in Southern Women鈥檚 History presented by the Southern Association for Women Historians, 2015. - Bernice Heilbrunn, "Faith as Motive for Reform: Emil G. Hirsch and Chicago Jewish Progressives"
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
- Alfonso R. Lopez, "The Visions and Rites of the Mayan Ancestors in Yucatan: A Historical Account of the
Continuity of Mayan Cosmovision Among the Milperos of the Chilam Balam Route鈥
Advisor: John M. Hart
Current Position: History Professor, Austin Community College - Alberto Rodriguez,鈥淭he Making of the Modern Lower Rio Grande Valley: Situating and Reframing Race, Class,
Ethnicity in Urbanizing South Texas, 1930-1960鈥
Advisors: Raul Ramos & Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Associate Professor and Coordinator of Publications for the Institute for Architectural Engineering, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Editor of the Journal of South Texas; Series Editor at University of Oklahoma Press - Jason Theriot, 鈥淏uilding America鈥檚 Energy Corridor: Oil and Gas Development and the Louisiana Wetlands鈥
Advisor: Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Jason P. Theriot Consulting, LLC; Former Energy Policy Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- John M. Barr, 鈥淭he Anti-Lincoln Tradition in American Life鈥
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Professor of History, Lone Star College-Kingwood
Publication: Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present (LSU Press, 2014); Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award, 2014 - F. James Bingley, Jr., 鈥淏ecoming American: The Welsh Mormon Journey鈥
Advisor: Karl Ittmann - Angela Calder, "More than a Centerfold: Gender and the Politics of Playboy Magazine in Modern America"
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Drew University - Holle Canatella, 鈥淪cripsit amica manus: Male-Female Spiritual Friendship in England and France, ca.
1050-1200鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Lock Haven University - Courtney De Mayo Pugno, 鈥淭he Cathedral School at Reims and the Early Capetian State, 969-1031鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Creator and Executive Director of the Owen Center for Teaching and Learning, and Assistant VP for Academic Affairs, Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH); Crain's 2019 Notable Women in Education - Lauran Kerr-Heraly, 鈥淩ace, Gender and African American Women Doctors in the Twentieth Century鈥
Advisor: James Schafer
Current Position: Professor of History, Houston Community College - Mari L. Nicholson-Preuss,"Down and Out in Old JD: Urban Public Hospitals, Institutional Stigma and Medical
Indigence in the Twentieth Century"
Advisors: Sarah Fishman and Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
Current Position: Director of the University Honors Program, 91破解版-Downtown - Gregory Peek, 鈥淯pland Southerners, Indiana Political Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War"
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Associate Teaching Professor of History, Penn State University - Benjamin Pugno, "The Integration of Classical Medicine with Christian Conversion and Monasticism in
Anglo-Saxon England鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Associate Professor of Humanities, Columbus State Community College
2000 - 2009
- Clifton Caskey, 鈥淏uilding Hitler鈥檚 Jets: Using Holocaust Survivors鈥 Testimonies to Examine a Branch
of the Nazi Armaments鈥
Advisor: Hannah Decker
Current Position: Self Employed, Instructor of History, English/ESL - Daniel Donalson, 鈥淧rosecuting The Sedition Act in Texas 1918-1921鈥
Advisor: Nancy Beck Young
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Houston Community College Southeast
Publication: The Espionage and Sedition Acts of World War 1: Using Wartime Loyalty Laws for Revenge and Profit (LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2012) - Felipe Hinojosa, "Making Noise Among The 'Quiet In The Land': Mexican Americans And Puerto Rican Ethno-Religious
Identity In The Mennonite Church, 1932-1982"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Texas A & M University at College Station
Publications: Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (University of Texas Press, Historia USA Series, January 2021); Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2014) - Theresa Jach, "It's Hell In A Texas Pen" Life And labor In The Texas Prison System, 1849-1929鈥
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: History Professor, Houston Community College Northwest
Publication: Huntsville Penitentiary (Arcadia Publishing [Images of American Book Series], 2013) - Phillip Sinitiere, 鈥淭he Sad Tendency of Division And Contention In Churches: Church Schism, Ecclesiastical
Discord, And Clergy Dismissal In Colonial New England鈥
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Professor at the College of Biblical Studies (Houston, TX)
Publications: Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity (New York University Press, 2015); Editor, Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W.E.B.Du Bois (Northwestern University Press, Critical Insurgency Series, 2019); Co-editor with Christopher Cameron, Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Essays on a Moment and Movement (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021); Co-editor with Amy Helene Kirschke, Protest and Propaganda: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis, and American History (University of Missouri Press, 2014); Co-editor with J. Russel Hawkins, Christians and the Color Line: Race and Religion after Divided by Faith (Oxford University Press, 2013); Co-author with Shayne Lee, Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (New York University Press, 2009) - Teresa Tomkins-Walsh, 鈥A Concrete River Had To Be Wrong: Environmental Standing On Houston's Bayou's 1935-1999鈥
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Principal at Historical Conservation Guild - David Urbano, 鈥When The Smoke Lifted: The 1857-1858 鈥楥art War' of South Texas"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: History Instructor, Victoria Independent School District
- Tahseen Ali,鈥淩evolutionary Violence & Subversion: Reexamining the Role of Subhas Chandra Bose
& Armed Struggle Against The British Raj in India鈥
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Full-time Faculty, Houston Community College; Assistant Professor, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Publication: Implacable Foes: Subhas Bose, Secularism & the Struggle against World Imperialism and Gandhism (Prathak Shamabesh Publishers, 2022) - Gary B. Bryant,鈥淲orking Women in the Confederate South: White Southern Women in the Paid Labor Force
during the Civil War鈥
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Adjunct Instructor/Tutor, Lone Star College - Graham Cox, "What Irony! Nuremberg and the Negro Problem"
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor, North Central Texas College
Publication: Seeking Justice for the Holocaust: Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019) - Christina Edelen,鈥淢usic and Morality in Seventeenth Century England鈥
Advisor: Cathy Patterson
Current Position: Professional Musician, The Netherlands. - Jesus Jesse Esparza, 鈥Schools of Their Own: The San Felipe Independent School District and Mexican American
Educational Autonomy, Del Rio, Texas, 1928-1972鈥
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University
Publication: Co-editor, The Truth in Our Stories: Immigrant Voices in Radical Times (Izard Ink, 2022) - Trinidad Gonzales,鈥淭he World of Mexico Texanos, Mexicanos and Mexico Americanos: Transnational and National
Identities In The Lower Rio Grande Valley During The Last Phase of United States Colonization,
1900 to 1930鈥
Advisor: John Hart
Current Position: Instructor, South Texas College
Award: 2020 Winner of the Herbert Feis Award for Public History from the American Historical Association - Isaac Hampton,鈥淭he Journey of African American Officers Through The Vietnam Era鈥
Advisors: Robert Buzzanco and Gerald Horne
Current Position: Senior Historian and Command Curator at Air Force Global Strike Command, San Antonio, Texas
Publication: The Black Officer Corps: A History of Black Military Advancement from Integration through Vietnam (Routledge Press, 2013) - Joe Janssens,鈥淢aneuver Warfare & Military Economy In The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915鈥
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: Founder, Revolution Publishing, LLC - Amy O'Neal,鈥淧ragmatism, Patronage, Piety and Participation, Women in the Anglo-Norman Chronicles"
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Director of Assessment and Accreditation Services, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, 91破解版 - Robert Thompson,鈥淪oil and Slaves: An Environmental History of Northeastern North Carolina, 1584-1860鈥
Advisor: Kathleen Brosnan
- LaGuana Gray, 鈥They Just Keep Running the Line": Southern Black Women in the Poultry Processing Industry,
1960-2006鈥
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Texas-San Antonio
Publications: We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014). - Katherine Lopez, 鈥The Cougar Revolution鈥
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Publication: Cougars of Any Color: The Integration of 91破解版, Athletics, 1964-1968 (McFarland and Company, 2008) - Christopher J. Smith, 鈥American Rebels: Soldier Protest in the Early American Military, 1754- 1815鈥
Advisor: James Kirby Martin
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Liberty University
- Douglas Bryson, 鈥淐hihuahua, the United States, and the Origins of a Revolution鈥
Advisor: John Hart
Current Position: Teacher, Austin High School - Sonia Hernandez, 鈥淢exicanos and Mexicanas in a Transitional Borderland, 1880-1940鈥
Advisor: John Hart
Current Position: Associate Professor, Graduate Placement Director, Texas A&M University, College Station
Publications: Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014); "For a Just and Better World": Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 2021) - Thomas McKinney, 鈥淪uperhighway Deluxe: Houston's Gulf Freeway鈥
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stephen F Austin State University - Angela Murphy, 鈥淎bolition, Irish Freedom, and Immigrant Citizenship: American Slavery and the Rise
and Fall of the American Associations for Irish Repeal鈥
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: Professor, Texas State University
Publications: The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2015); American Slavery, Irish Freedom: Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal (Louisiana State University Press, 2010) - Courtney Shah, "鈥橳his Loathsome Subject鈥: Sex Education in Progressive-Era America鈥
Advisor: Landon Storrs
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lower Columbia College
Publications: Sex Ed, Segregated: The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive Era America (University of Rochester Press, 2015; Co-author, America in the Progressive Era, 1890鈥1917 (Routledge, 2021) - Beverly Tomek, 鈥Seeking a Manageable Population: Limitation, Colonization, and Black Resistance in
Pennsylvania鈥檚 Antislavery Movement鈥
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: Associate Provost of Curriculum & Student Success, Associate Professor of History, 91破解版-Victoria
Publications: New Directions in the Study of African-American Recolonization (University Press of Florida, 2017); Pennsylvania Hall: A&苍产蝉辫;鈥淟egal Lynching鈥 in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell (Oxford University Press, 2013); Colonization and its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania (New York University Press, 2011, 2012) - Roy Vu, 鈥淩ising from the Cold War Ashes: Construction of a Vietnamese American Community in
Houston, 1975-2005鈥
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Professor of History, Dallas College - North Lake Campus
Publication: Farm-to-Freedom: Vietnamese Americans and Their Home Gardens (Texas A&M University Press, 2022); Lead Author and Co-Editor, Feasted Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics, Vols. 1 and 2 (Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2018); Lead Author and Co-Editor, Our Finite Bounty: An Anthology of Sustainability Topics (Kendall Hunt, 2017)
- Jay Casey, 鈥淯.S. Military Cartoonists in World Wars I and II鈥
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Postion: Lecturer, Department of History, University of Oklahoma - Ellen Rogan Brunet, 鈥淪t. Dunstan's Political Career鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College Southwest - Douglas Erwing, 鈥淔ederalism and the U.S. Constitution鈥
Advisor: Robert Palmer
Current Position: Lecturer, Honors College Faculty, 91破解版 - Ronald Traylor, 鈥淏arrett Station, Texas: A Reflection of the Black Experience in Texas鈥
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Instructor, Department of History, Southeastern Louisiana University
- James Carter, 鈥淚nventing Vietnam: The United States and State Making in Southeast Asia鈥
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Drew University
Publications: Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) - Jan Crenshaw, 鈥淪pecial Sanctuary in Medieval England鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Former Head Librarian, Retired, San Jacinto College, North Library - Christos Frentzos, 鈥淔rom Seoul to Saigon: U.S.-South Korea Relations and the Vietnam War鈥
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Professor, Austin Peay University
Publications: Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History, The Colonial Period to 1877 (Routledge, 2015); Co-editor, The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History, 1865 to the Present (Routledge, 2013) - Hyun Ran Kim, 鈥淭he Origins of Queen Elizabeth I鈥檚 Celibacy and Political Strategies: Experience,
Education, and Tactics鈥
Advisor: Catherine Patterson
Current Position: Instructor in History and English Language, Republic of Korea - Lori Lehtola, 鈥淜ing Aethelstan: 鈥楻ightwys Kyng Borne of All Englond鈥欌
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: History Professor, Houston Community College - Ron Milam, 鈥淣ot a Gentleman鈥檚 War: Junior Officers in the Vietnam War鈥
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Publications: Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009); The Vietnam War in Popular Culture: The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life (Praeger, 2016) - Kimberley Weathers, 鈥淔itting an Elephant through a Keyhole: America鈥檚 Struggle with National Health Insurance
in the Twentieth Century鈥
Advisor: James Jones
- Donald Connelly, 鈥Political Soldiers: John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship鈥
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar
Current Position: Associate Professor, Joint & Multinational Operations, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth
Publications: Political Soldiers: John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). - Barbara Hayward, 鈥Winning the Race: Education of Texas Freedmen Immediately after the Civil War鈥
Advisor: Eric Walther
Current Position: Professor of History, Tomball College - John Kearney, 鈥El Hombre de Hechos, Porfirio Diaz and the Rise of the Mexican Liberal State: War,
Development and Globalization in the First Mexican Century鈥
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: History Instructor, Houston Community College and Lone Star College - Irving Levinson, 鈥Wars within War: Mexican Guerillas, Domestic Elites, and the Americans, 1846-1848鈥
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: Professor, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Publications: Wars within War: Mexican Guerillas, Domestic Elites, and the Americans, 1846-1848 (Texas Christian University Press, 2005). - Diane Lovell, 鈥The Crown鈥檚 Policy against Papal Provisions in the Reign of Richard II: The Statutes
of Provisors and Premunire, 1377-1394鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: President of Southwestern Oklahoma State University (Weatherford, OK) - Jaime Olivares, 鈥The Creation of a Labor Aristocracy: The History of the Oil Workers in Maracaibo,
Venezuela, 1925-1948鈥
Advisor: Thomas O鈥橞rien
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College
- Charles Closman,&苍产蝉辫;鈥Modernizing the Water: Pollution and the Commercial Tradition in Hamburg, Germany,
1900-1961鈥
Advisors: Hannah Decker and Martin Melosi
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Florida
Publications: Editor, War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age (TAMU Press, 2009) - Joyce Kievit, 鈥淭rail of Tears to Veil of Tears: The Impact of Removal on Reconstruction in Indian
Territory鈥
Advisor: Steven Mintz
Current Position: Retired, Department of History, Colorado State University - Patricia Torpis, 鈥淚n the House of Godwine: A Study in Eleventh-Century Personality and the Pursuit
of Power鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Retired (Adjunct), University of St. Thomas
- Austin Allen, 鈥淐ontaining Slavery, Imposing Sovereignty: Federalism, Corporate Law, and the Origins
of the Dred Scott Case鈥
Advisor: Robert Palmer
Current Position: Associate Professor, 91破解版-Downtown
Publications: Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837鈥1857 (University of Georgia Press, 2006). - Pamela Conn, 鈥淟osing Hearts and Minds: U.S. Pacification Efforts in Vietnam during the Johnson
Years鈥
Advisor: Robert Buzzanco
Current Position: Chair, Social Studies, Cypress Creek High School - Joseph Douglas, 鈥淎n Environmental History of American Caves, 1660-1900鈥
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor of History, Volunteer State Community College - Bernadette Pruitt, 鈥溾橣or the Advancement of the Race鈥: African-American Migration and Community-Building
in Houston, 1914-1945鈥
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University
Publications: The Other Great Migration: The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2013). - Julia Sloan, 鈥淭he 1968 Student Movement and the Crisis of Mexico鈥檚 Institutionalized Revolution鈥
Advisor: John Mason Hart
Current Position: Professor and Director of General Education, Curry College - Sethuraman Srinivasan, 鈥淭he Struggle for Control: Technology and Organized Labor in Gulf Coast Refineries,
1913-1973鈥
Advisor: Joseph Pratt
Current Position: Professor, Lone Star College - Tomball
- Elizabeth 鈥楽cout鈥 Blum, 鈥淧ink and Green: A Comparative Study of Black and White Women鈥檚 Urban Environmental
Activism in the Twentieth Century鈥
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor, Troy University
Publications: Love Canal Revisited: Race, Class, and Gender in Environmental Activism (University of Kansas Press, 2008). - Rebecca Durrer, 鈥淐hanging British Imperial Ideology: Edward G. Wakefield and the Colonization of New
Zealand鈥
Advisor: Karl Ittmann
Current Position: Instructor of History Online Campus, Columbia College, Columbia, MO - Leigh Fought, 鈥淭he Conservative Force: Louisa S. McCord, Slavery, and Antebellum Southern Womanhood,
1810-1879鈥
Advisor: Richard Blackett
Current Position: Assistant Editor, US Grant Papers; Associate Professor of History, LeMoyne College
Publications: Given Her Time: A Biography of Sally Hemings (Routlege, forthcoming 2023); Women in the World of Frederick Douglass (Oxford University Press, 2017); Southern Womanhood and Slavery (University of Missouri Press, 2003). - Steven Prewitt, 鈥溾橶e Didn鈥檛 Ask to Come to This Party鈥: Self-Determination Collides with the Federal
Government in the Public Schools of Del Rio, Texas, 1890-1971鈥
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel
Current Position: Professor, Lone Star College - Tomball - Jan Rosin, 鈥Sovereignty and Civil Rights: The Burger Supreme Court and Alien Access鈥
Advisor: Martin Melosi - Darryl Stevens, "The Menaul School: a Study of Cultural Convergence"
Advisor: Guadalupe San Miguel - Daniel Walker, 鈥淐ultures of Control/Cultures of Resistance: Slave Society in Nineteenth-Century New
Orleans and Havana鈥
Advisor: Susan Kellogg
Current Position: Director, Center for Public History and the Arts, Riverside, California
Publications: No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). - Priscilla Watkins, 鈥淐aen and the Expansion of Ducal Power in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Normandy:
The Formation of an Urban Community鈥
Advisor: Sally Vaughn
Current Position: Adjunct, Houston Community College
Publications: Manuscript accepted for publication by Brepols Press, Belgium, titled Saint Etienne of Caen: A Monastic Community in an Urban Environment: Its Social, Political, and Economic Context, 1063-1204.
1990-1999
- Michael Botson, 鈥淭he Labor History of Houston鈥檚 Hughes Tool Company, 1901-1964: From Autocracy and
Jim Crow to Industrial Democracy and Civil Rights.鈥
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College-Northwest.
Publications: Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company (Texas A&M University Press, 2005), won Fehrenbach Prize for Texas History. - Victoria Pasley, 鈥淕ender, Race, and Class in Urban Trinidad: Representations in the Construction and
Maintenance of the Gender Order, 1950-1980.鈥
Advisor: Thomas O鈥橞rien.
Current Position: Lecturer in History at the 91破解版 - Dwight Watson, 鈥淎 Change Did Come: The Transformation of the Houston Police Department, 1930-1984.鈥
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Current Position: Retired from Texas State University.
Publications: Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990: A Change Did Come (Texas A&M University Press, 2006).
- Gisela Ables, 鈥淐hanging Images of the Arab World in the American Popular Mind.鈥
Advisor: Garth Jowett (School of Communication)
Current Position: Chair, Houston Community College-Northwest - Krisztina Robert, 鈥淕endering Class, Patriotism, and Militarism: The Women鈥檚 Corps Movement in Britain
during and after World War I.鈥
Advisor: Karl Ittmann.
Current Position: Lecturer, Roehampton University, London
- Bruce Beauboeuf, 鈥淭he Strategic Petroleum Reserve: W.S. Security, Oil Politics, and Petroleum Reserve
Policies in the Twentieth Century.鈥
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Publications: Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U. S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005 (Texas A&M University Press, 2007). - Mark Carroll, 鈥Families, Sex, and the Law in Frontier Texas.鈥
Advisor: Robert Palmer.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia Publications: Homesteads Ungovernable (University of Texas Press, 2001).
Publications: Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2001). - J. Kent McGaughy, 鈥A Faction of One: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, 1732-1794.鈥
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College-Northwest. Publications: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). - Alissa Petrovich, 鈥Revisioning Colbert: Jean-Baptiste Colbert and the Origins of French Global Imperial
Policy, 1661-1683.鈥
Advisor: Bailey Stone.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Brazosport College. - Charles F. Robinson II, 鈥The Antimiscegenation Conversation: Love鈥檚 Legislated Limits.鈥
Advisor: Steven Mintz.
Current Position: Interim Chancellor of the University of Arkansas (flagship campus)
Publications: Forsaking All Others: A True Story of Interracial Sex and Revenge in the 1880s South (University of Tennessee Press, 2010); Remembrances in Black: Personal Perspectives of the African American Experience at the University of Arkansas, 1940s-2000s (University of Arkansas Press, 2010); Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South (University of Arkansas Press, 2003). - Paul Spellman, 鈥Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.鈥
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Current Position: Division Chair, Communications and Fine Arts, Wharton County Junior College.
Publications: Forgotten Texas Leader: Hugh McLeod and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition (Texas A&M University Press, 1999); Spindletop Boom Days (Texas A&M University Press, 2001); Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger (University of North Texas Press, 2003); Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger (University of North Texas Press, 2007).
- Jonathan Hook, 鈥淓thnic Dynamism: Cultural Transition in the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas.鈥
Advisor: Martin Melosi.
Current Position: Director of the Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Dallas, Texas.
Publications: The Alabama-Coushatta Indians (Texas A&M University Press, 1997). - Melissa Hovsepian, 鈥Considering the Other: The Effects of Otherness on the Processes of Contact, Conquest,
and Cultural Dialogue with Indigenous Peoples.鈥
Advisor: Loyd Swenson.
Current Position: Lecturer, 91破解版--Downtown. - Ernest Obadele-Starks, 鈥淭he Road to Jericho: Black Workers, the Fair Employment Practice Commission, and
the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, 1941-1947.鈥
Advisor: Joseph Pratt.
Publications: Black Unionism in the Industrial South (Texas A&M University Press, 2000); Freebooters and Smugglers: Advancing the Foreign Slave Trade in the United States after 1808 (University of Arkansas Press, 2007). - Amilcar Shabazz, 鈥The Opening of the Southern Mind: The Desegregation of Higher Education in Texas,
1865-1965.鈥
Advisor: Linda Reed
Current Position: Professor of History and Africana Studies, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
Publications: Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas (The University of North Carolina Press, 2004), won Fehrenbach Prize for Texas History. - Andrew Walmsley, 鈥淭homas Hutchinson and the Decline of Royal Government in Massachusetts.鈥
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, Houston Community College--Central.
Publications: Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution (New York University Press, 2000).
<ul>
<li><strong>Theresa McGinley</strong>, 鈥<em>A Cry for Human Rights: The Polish Displaced Persons Problem and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1951</em>.鈥<br> Advisor: Kenneth Lipartito.<br> Current Position: Acting Associate Vice Chancellor of Lone Star Colleges in Harris County.<br> Publications: <em>The History of the Lone Star College System: A Texas Success Story</em>; Published 25th anniversary history of North Harris County Community College</li>
<li><strong>Michael Rice,</strong> <em>鈥淣icaragua and the U.S.: Policy Confrontations and Cultural Interactions, 1893-1933.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Thomas O鈥橞rien</li>
<li><strong>Cristina Rivera Garza,</strong> <em>鈥淏odies, Power, and Modernity in Mexico, 1867-1930.鈥<br></em>Advisor: John Mason Hart.<br>Current Position: Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of the Creative Writing Program in Spanish, 91破解版<br>Publications: Dr. Rivera Garza is the author of dozens of publications. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for <em>Liliana鈥檚 Invincible Summer: A Sister鈥檚 Search for Justice</em>, which was also a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in the United States. Her novel <em>Nadie me ver谩 llorar</em> (<em>No One Will See Me Cry</em>) earned her the 1997 Jos茅 Rub茅n Romero National Book Award, the 2000 IMPAC-CONARTE-ITESM Prize, and the 2001 International Sor Juana In茅s de la Cruz Award. Her collection of short stories, <em>La guerra no importa</em> (<em>The War Doesn't Matter</em>) won the National Prize in Mexico in 1987. Her first novel, <em>Desconocer</em> (<em>Forgetting</em>) was a finalist for the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1994.<br><strong>***2020 Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant"<br></strong><strong>***2023 National Book Award Finalist<br></strong><strong>***2024 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography</strong></li>
<li><strong>Mark Saka,</strong> <em>鈥淧easant Nationalism and Social Unrest in the Mexican Huasteca, 1848-1884.鈥<br></em>Advisor: John Mason Hart<br>Current Position: RGC Professor History, Sul Ross State University <br>Publications: <em>For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca</em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2013)</li>
<li><strong>Jean Truax,</strong> 鈥淭he<em> Making of the King, 1135: Gender. Family, and Custom in the Anglo-Norman Succession Crisis.鈥<br></em>Advisor: Sally Vaughn<br>Current Position: Independent Scholar<br>Publications: <em>Archbishops Ralph D'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobald of Bec: Heirs of Anselm and Ancestors of Becket </em>(Routledge, 2012); <em>Aelred the Peacemaker: The Public Life of a Cistercian Abbot </em>(The Liturgical Press, 2017)</li>
</ul>
<li><strong>Theresa McGinley</strong>, 鈥<em>A Cry for Human Rights: The Polish Displaced Persons Problem and United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1951</em>.鈥<br> Advisor: Kenneth Lipartito.<br> Current Position: Acting Associate Vice Chancellor of Lone Star Colleges in Harris County.<br> Publications: <em>The History of the Lone Star College System: A Texas Success Story</em>; Published 25th anniversary history of North Harris County Community College</li>
<li><strong>Michael Rice,</strong> <em>鈥淣icaragua and the U.S.: Policy Confrontations and Cultural Interactions, 1893-1933.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Thomas O鈥橞rien</li>
<li><strong>Cristina Rivera Garza,</strong> <em>鈥淏odies, Power, and Modernity in Mexico, 1867-1930.鈥<br></em>Advisor: John Mason Hart.<br>Current Position: Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of the Creative Writing Program in Spanish, 91破解版<br>Publications: Dr. Rivera Garza is the author of dozens of publications. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for <em>Liliana鈥檚 Invincible Summer: A Sister鈥檚 Search for Justice</em>, which was also a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in the United States. Her novel <em>Nadie me ver谩 llorar</em> (<em>No One Will See Me Cry</em>) earned her the 1997 Jos茅 Rub茅n Romero National Book Award, the 2000 IMPAC-CONARTE-ITESM Prize, and the 2001 International Sor Juana In茅s de la Cruz Award. Her collection of short stories, <em>La guerra no importa</em> (<em>The War Doesn't Matter</em>) won the National Prize in Mexico in 1987. Her first novel, <em>Desconocer</em> (<em>Forgetting</em>) was a finalist for the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1994.<br><strong>***2020 Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant"<br></strong><strong>***2023 National Book Award Finalist<br></strong><strong>***2024 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography</strong></li>
<li><strong>Mark Saka,</strong> <em>鈥淧easant Nationalism and Social Unrest in the Mexican Huasteca, 1848-1884.鈥<br></em>Advisor: John Mason Hart<br>Current Position: RGC Professor History, Sul Ross State University <br>Publications: <em>For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexican Huasteca</em> (University of New Mexico Press, 2013)</li>
<li><strong>Jean Truax,</strong> 鈥淭he<em> Making of the King, 1135: Gender. Family, and Custom in the Anglo-Norman Succession Crisis.鈥<br></em>Advisor: Sally Vaughn<br>Current Position: Independent Scholar<br>Publications: <em>Archbishops Ralph D'Escures, William of Corbeil and Theobald of Bec: Heirs of Anselm and Ancestors of Becket </em>(Routledge, 2012); <em>Aelred the Peacemaker: The Public Life of a Cistercian Abbot </em>(The Liturgical Press, 2017)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Theo Billings</strong>,<em>鈥淭he Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.鈥</em><br> Advisor: John Ettling.</li>
<li><strong>Karen Guenther</strong><em>, 鈥淎 Quaker Community of the Pennsylvania Frontier: Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1737-1789.鈥</em><br> Advisor: James Kirby Martin.<br> Current Position: Professor of History and Chair, Mansfield University.<br> Publications: <em>Sports in Pennsylvani</em>a (Pennsylvania Historical Society, 2007).<br> <em>Rememb'ring Our Time And Work Is the Lords": The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier</em> (Susquehanna Univ. Press, 2005).</li>
<li><strong>Tom Hughes</strong>, <em>鈥淭he Other Air War: Elwood 鈥楶ete鈥 Quesasa and American Tactical Air Power in World War II Europe.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.<br> Current Position: Associate Professor of History, U.S. Air University, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.<br> Publications: <em>Overlord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II</em> (Free Press, 1995).</li>
<li><strong>Betsy Powers,</strong> <em>鈥淔rom Cotton Fields to Oil Fields: Economic Development in a New South Community.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Cheryl Cody.<br> Current Position: Professor, Montgomery College.</li>
<li><strong>Michael Wilson,</strong> <em>鈥淗istorical Interpretations of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Bailey Stone<br> Current Position: Professor, Department of History, Maricopa Community College--Phoenix</li>
<li><strong>William Kellar</strong>, <em>鈥淢ake Haste Slowly: A History of School Desegregation in Houston, Texas.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Linda Reed<br> Current Position: Adjunct, University of Houston.<br> Publications: <em>Make Haste Slowly</em> (Texas A&M University Press, 1999).</li>
</ul>
<li><strong>Theo Billings</strong>,<em>鈥淭he Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.鈥</em><br> Advisor: John Ettling.</li>
<li><strong>Karen Guenther</strong><em>, 鈥淎 Quaker Community of the Pennsylvania Frontier: Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1737-1789.鈥</em><br> Advisor: James Kirby Martin.<br> Current Position: Professor of History and Chair, Mansfield University.<br> Publications: <em>Sports in Pennsylvani</em>a (Pennsylvania Historical Society, 2007).<br> <em>Rememb'ring Our Time And Work Is the Lords": The Experiences of Quakers on the Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania Frontier</em> (Susquehanna Univ. Press, 2005).</li>
<li><strong>Tom Hughes</strong>, <em>鈥淭he Other Air War: Elwood 鈥楶ete鈥 Quesasa and American Tactical Air Power in World War II Europe.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.<br> Current Position: Associate Professor of History, U.S. Air University, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base.<br> Publications: <em>Overlord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II</em> (Free Press, 1995).</li>
<li><strong>Betsy Powers,</strong> <em>鈥淔rom Cotton Fields to Oil Fields: Economic Development in a New South Community.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Cheryl Cody.<br> Current Position: Professor, Montgomery College.</li>
<li><strong>Michael Wilson,</strong> <em>鈥淗istorical Interpretations of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Bailey Stone<br> Current Position: Professor, Department of History, Maricopa Community College--Phoenix</li>
<li><strong>William Kellar</strong>, <em>鈥淢ake Haste Slowly: A History of School Desegregation in Houston, Texas.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Linda Reed<br> Current Position: Adjunct, University of Houston.<br> Publications: <em>Make Haste Slowly</em> (Texas A&M University Press, 1999).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Elizabeth O鈥橩ane Lipartito</strong>, <em>鈥淭he Misfortunes and Calamities of War: Civilians and Society in the American Revolution and After, 1775-1830.鈥<br> </em>Advisor: James Kirby Martin.</li>
<li><strong>Mark E. Steiner</strong>, 鈥淎braham Lincoln and the Antebellum Legal Profession.鈥 <br>Advisor: Robert C. Palmer.<br>Current Position: Professor of Law Emeritus, South Texas College of Law Houston.<br>Publications: <em>Lincoln and Citizenship</em> (Southern Illinois University Press, 2021); <em>An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln</em> (Northern Illinois Press, 2006).</li>
</ul>
<li><strong>Elizabeth O鈥橩ane Lipartito</strong>, <em>鈥淭he Misfortunes and Calamities of War: Civilians and Society in the American Revolution and After, 1775-1830.鈥<br> </em>Advisor: James Kirby Martin.</li>
<li><strong>Mark E. Steiner</strong>, 鈥淎braham Lincoln and the Antebellum Legal Profession.鈥 <br>Advisor: Robert C. Palmer.<br>Current Position: Professor of Law Emeritus, South Texas College of Law Houston.<br>Publications: <em>Lincoln and Citizenship</em> (Southern Illinois University Press, 2021); <em>An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln</em> (Northern Illinois Press, 2006).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Ime Ukpanah</strong>, <em>鈥淵earning to be Free: Inkundla ya Bantu [Bantu Forum] as Mirror and Mediator of the African Nationalist Struggle in South Africa, 1938-1951.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Les Switzer (School of Communication).<br> Publications: <em>The Long Road to Freedom</em> (Africa World Press, 2005).</li>
</ul>
<li><strong>Ime Ukpanah</strong>, <em>鈥淵earning to be Free: Inkundla ya Bantu [Bantu Forum] as Mirror and Mediator of the African Nationalist Struggle in South Africa, 1938-1951.鈥</em><br> Advisor: Les Switzer (School of Communication).<br> Publications: <em>The Long Road to Freedom</em> (Africa World Press, 2005).</li>
</ul>
- Zhigong Ho, 鈥淎cross the Pacific: American Pragmatism in China, 1917-1937.鈥
- Hal Terry Shelton, 鈥淔rom Redcoat to Rebel: General Richard Montgomery in the American Revolution.鈥
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Current Position: Professor, San Jacinto College.
Publications: General Richard Montgomery and the American Revolution: From Redcoat to Rebel (New York University Press, 1996).
- Christopher Castaneda, 鈥淩egulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipeline and the Competition for Northeastern Markets,
1938-1954.鈥
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Current Position: Professor and Chair, California State University--Sacramento.
Publications: Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipelines and Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954 (The Ohio State University Press, 1993); Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928-1993 (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Co-authored with Clarance M. Smith; Builders: Herman and George R. Brown (Texas A&M University Press, 1998), co-authored with Joseph A. Pratt; Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000 (Twayne Publishers, 1999); Keeping the Promise: A History of the California Department of Justice (California Dept. of Justice, 2006). - Norman Caulfield, 鈥Conflict and Accommodation: Mexican Labor and the State in the Twentieth Century.鈥
Advisor: John Mason Hart.
Current Position: Professor, Fort Hays State University.
Publications: Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA (Texas Christian University Press, 1998). - Norma Chudleigh, 鈥James L. Autry: Hero without War.鈥
Advisor: Joe Pratt.
Current Position: Genealogy consultant. - Ellin Jimmerson, 鈥淭he Social Artist and the Picture Book Medium: 20th Century American Career Biographies.鈥
Advisor: Hyland Packard. - James McCaffrey, 鈥淎rmy of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War.鈥
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Postion: Professor, 91破解版-Downtown.
Publications: Army of Manifest Destiny (New York University Press, 1994); This Band of Heroes: Granbury鈥檚 Texas Brigade, CSA (Texas A&M University Press, 1996); Wake Island Pilot (Potomac Books, 2005); The Army in Transformation, 1790-1860 (Greenwood Press, 2006). - James Patterson, 鈥The Houston-Galveston Area Council: A Regional History of Intergovernmental Cooperation鈥
Advisor: Martin Melosi
Current Position: Professor, Northwest College, Houston Community College
1989 - 1980
- Bruce A. Olson, 鈥淭he Houston Light Guards: Elite Cohesion and Social Order in the New South, 1873-1940.鈥
Advisor: Joseph Glatthaar.
Current Position: Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, Del Mar College, retired.
- James Aldridge, 鈥淎 Study of the Conflict between Private and Public Power Interests in Louisiana,
1950-1980.鈥
Advisor: Joseph A. Pratt. - Ibrahim Alsaeed, 鈥淭he Origins and Meaning of America鈥檚 Special Relationship with Israel.鈥
Advisor: Stanley Siegal. - Myra Dorris Collie Hall, 鈥淟aura V. Hamner: A Woman before Her Time.鈥 [Deceased]
Advisor: James Tinsley. - Sam W. Haynes, 鈥淭he Somervel and Mier Expeditions: The Political and Diplomatic Consequences of Frontier
Adventurism in the Texas Republic, 1842-1844.鈥
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Position: Professor, University of Texas-Arlington.
Publications: Soldiers of Misfortune (University of Texas Press, 1997); James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse (Longman, 2001); The Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in the British World (University of Virginia Press, 2010); Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas. (Basic Books, 2022). - Mahmudul Huque, "Quest for Stability: The United States and Its Relations with India and Pakistan,
1947-1971."
Position: Professor, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, retired
Publications: The Role of the USA in the India Pakistan Conflict, 1947-71 (Academic Publishers, 1992); History of the Subcontinent and Bengal, 1526-1947 (Ghazipur: Bangladesh Open University, 2002) [co-authored text in Bangla]; From autonomy to independence : the United States, Pakistan, and emergence of Bangladesh (Wide Canvas, Noida, U.P., India, 2014) - Marilyn Dubberley Rhinehart, 鈥淎 Way of Work and a Way of Life: Coal Mining and Coal Miners in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926.鈥
Advisor: John O. King
Position: Retired Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs/Chief Academic Officer, Johnson County Community College
Publications: A Way of Work and A Way of Life: Coal Mining in Thurber, Texas, 1888-1926, ( Texas A&M Press, 1992).
- Priscilla Myers-Benham, 鈥淭exas City: Port of Industrial Opportunity鈥 [Deceased]
Advisor: Martin Melosi
- Melodie Andrews, 鈥溾橫yrmidons from Abroad鈥: The Role of the German Mercenary in the Coming of American
Independence.鈥
Advisor: Robert V. Haynes.
Position: Professor Emerita, Minnesota State University at Mankato.
- Robert N. Schwartz, 鈥淯.S. Diplomatic Relations with Latin America, 1945-1960: The Unsettling Dichotomies
of Security and Development.鈥 [Deceased]
Advisor: Stanley Siegal - James B. Sullivan, 鈥The Philosopher James K. Beibleman and American Civilization.鈥
Advisor: Loyd Swenson.
Current Position: Professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville
- Howard Beeth, 鈥Outside Agitators in Southern History: The Society of Friends,1650-1800.鈥
Advisor: Gerald Goodwin.
Position: Professor Emeritus of History, Texas Southern University
Publications: Co-author, Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston (Texas A&M University Press, 1992). - Larry Cable, 鈥淐onflict of Myths: The Development of U.S. Counter-Insurgency Doctrine and the Roots
of the Vietnamese Commitment, 1899-1965.鈥
Advisor: James Kirby Martin.
Position: University of North Carolina-Wilmington [Resigned]
Publications: Conflict of Myths (New York University Press, 1985); Unholy Grail (Routledge, 1991). - Allen R. Vogt, 鈥溾橝n Honest Fanatic鈥: The Images of the Abolitionist in the Antebellum and Historical
Minds.鈥
Advisor: Edwin A. Miles.
Current Position: Professor of History at Lone Star College
- Diane L Heafer, 鈥淎n Historiographical Study Of the Taney Court and the Dred Scott Decision.鈥
Advisor: Richard D. Younger.
Current Position: Professor of History at San Jacinto College
- Marta Sue Zulauf, 鈥淭hrough the Sipapu: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Mesa Verde Anasazi.鈥
Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.
- Charles O. Cook, 鈥淎rkansas鈥檚 Charles Hillman Brough, 1876-1935: An Interpretation.鈥
Advisor: Allen Going.
Current Position: 91破解版, Honors College.
Publications: Horatio Alger: Gender and Success in the Gilded Age (Wiley-Blackwell 2001) - Clara Viator Dobay, 鈥淓ssays in Mormon Historiography.鈥 [Deceased]
Advisor: Richard D. Younger.
1974-1979
- Don E. Carleton, 鈥淎 Crisis of Rapid Change: The Red Scare in Houston, 1945-1955鈥
Advisor: John O. King
Current Position: Director, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas
Publications: Red Scare!: Right-Wing Hysteria Fifties Fanaticism and Their Legacy in Texas (Texas Monthly Press, 1985); A Breed So Rare: The Life of J.R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oilman, 1896-1992 (Texas State Historical Association, 1998); Being Rapoport: Capitalist with a Conscience (University of Texas Press, 2002); Ross Sterling, Texan: A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company (University of Texas Press, 2007); Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics (Center for American History, 2008); Big Red: Memoirs of a Texas Entrepreneur and Philanthropist (The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 2010); Conversations with Cronkite (University of Texas Press, 2010)
- James C. Maroney, 鈥淥rganized Labor in Texas, 1900-1929鈥
Advisor: George Morgan, Jr.
Positions: Professor Emeritus, Lee College; Fellow of the East Texas Historical Association (2017); co-editor of Texas Labor History (Texas A&M University Press, 2013), which was a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by Choice Magazine
- Margaret Swett Henson, 鈥淪amuel May Williams, 1795-1858: Texas Entrepreneur.鈥 [Deceased]
Advisor: Stanley Siegal.
Publications: Samuel May Williams, Early Texas Entrepreneur (Texas Press, 1976); The Cartwrights of San Augustine: Three Generations of Agrarian Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth Century Texas (Texas State Historical Association, 1994); Lorenzo De Zavala: The Pragmatic Idealist, (Texas Christian University Press, 1996); Juan Davis Bradburn: A Reappraisal of the Mexican Commander of Anahuac (Texas A&M University Press, 1982).