GREGG CANTRELL
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
Ph.D., American History, Texas A&M University.
Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair of History, Texas Christian University.
Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas,
Yale University Press, 1999.  Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. 
Awards and Honors:
Winner of the 1999 Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award for Outstanding Research on a Texas History Topic.  Winner of the best book on Texas in 1999 by the Philosophical Society of Texas.  Received a Citation of Merit from the Texas Historical Foundation.  Co-winner of the 1999 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award given by the Texas Historical Commission.  Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic title for 2000.  Winner of the Presidio La Bahia Award given by The Sons of the Republic of Texas.  Winner of the 2000 Kate Broocks Bates Award sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association.  Winner of the 1999 Summerfield G. Roberts Award sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas.  Winner of the 2000 Catherine Munson Foster Memorial Award for Literature given by the Brazoria County Historical Museum.  Winner of the 2001 Ottis Lock Best Book Award sponsored by the East Texas Historical Association.  Won an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History.  Co-winner of the 1999 T. R. Fehrenback Book Award.  Received a Texas Historical Foundation Citation of Merit.

NANCY BECK YOUNG
The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies 
Ph.D. in American History, University of Texas.
Professor of History, University of Houston. 
Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream,
SMU Press, 2000.  Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. 
Awards and Honors:
Winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize, funded by a grant from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for outstanding book on Congress.