*2001-2002*
OMAR
VALERIO-JIMÉNEZ
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow
in Texas History
Ph.D., American History,
University of California at Los
Angeles, 2001.
Assistant
Professor of History, University
of Iowa.
River of Hope: Forging Identity
and Nation in the Rio Grande
Borderlands
Duke University Press, 2013.
Published in cooperation with
the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies.
Martina
Will
de Chaparro
The Carl B. and Florence E.
King Fellow in Southwest History
Ph.D., Latin American History,
University of New Mexico, 2000.
Independent Scholar.
Death and Dying in New Mexico,
University of New Mexico
Press, 2007. Published in
cooperation with the William P.
Clements Center for Southwest
Studies.
PEKKA
HÄMÄLÄINEN,
The Bill and Rita Clements
Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America
Ph.D., General History,
University of Helsinki, Finland,
2001.
Rhodes Professor of History and
Fellow of St. Catherine's
College, Oxford University, U.K.
The
Comanche Empire,
Yale
University Press, 2008.
Published in cooperation with
the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors:
Winner of the William P.
Clements Prize for Best
Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern
America. Winner of the 2009
Bancroft Prize, given by
Columbia University. Winner of
the 2008 Kate Broocks Bates
Award, presented by the Texas
State Historical Association.
Co-winner of the 2009 Merle
Curti Award, presented by the
Organization of American
Historians. Received Honorable
Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award
in the U.S. History and
Biography/Autobiography
category, sponsored by the
Association of American
Publishers. Finalist for the
2008 Book of the Year Award,
presented by ForeWord magazine.
Finalist for the Great Plains
Distinguished Book Prize,
presented by the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for
Great Plains Studies.
An alternate selection
of History Book Club, Military
Book Club, and Book-of-the-Month
Club.
ANDREA
KÖKÉNY
Fulbright Fellow
Ph.D. in History, University of
Szeged, Hungary.
Senior Assistant Professor,
Department of Modern History and
Mediterranean Studies,
University of Szeged, Hungary.
"Anglo-Americans in Texas,
1821-1845."
