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RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
FOR 2009-2010
The Bill and Rita
Clements Research Fellowships
for the Study of Southwestern America
The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies welcomes applications for four residential research fellowships. Fellowships are normally for a full academic year but we also welcome applications from scholars interested in a half-year fellowship. Competition is open to individuals in any field in the humanities or social sciences doing research on Southwestern America or the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The fellowships are designed to provide time for senior or junior scholars to bring book-length manuscripts to completion. One of the four fellowships, funded by the generosity of the Summerlee Foundation, supports work on Texas history. The fellowships cannot be used to complete a dissertation.
Fellows will be expected to spend the 2009-2010 academic year or single semester at SMU and to participate in Clements Center activities. Each fellow will receive the support of the Center and access to the extraordinary holdings of the DeGolyer Library. Full-year fellowships carry a stipend of $39,000, benefits where appropriate, a $3,000 allowance for research and travel expenses, and a publication subvention. Single-semester fellowships will receive a $19,500 stipend, benefits where appropriate, a $2,500 research allowance, and a publication subvention. Full-year fellows have the option of teaching one course during the duration of the fellowship for an additional stipend.
Applicants should send a copy of their curriculum vita, a description of their research project, and a sample chapter or extract (if the sample is from a dissertation, please include the introduction), indicate if they are applying for a full-year or single-semester fellowship. Applicants must arrange to have letters of reference sent from three persons who can assess the significance of the work and the ability of the scholar to carry it out.
Send applications by regular mail to:
David J. Weber, Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750176
Dallas TX 75275-0176Send applications by express mail to:
David J. Weber, Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
3225 University Drive, Room 356
Dallas, TX 75205
Applications must be received by January 20, 2009.
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Announcing the Clements
Center Research Fellowships
for 2008-2009
ROBERT T. CHASE
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America Ph.D. expected August 2008 in United States
History, University of Maryland.
Civil Rights on the Cell Block:
Race, Reform, and Punishment in Texas Prisons and the Nation, 1945-1990
RAPHAEL B. FOLSOM
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America Ph.D. in Latin American History, Yale
University, December 2007 with Distinction.
Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma.
This Weeping Land:
The Making, Destruction, and Rebirth of the Yaqui Mission Towns,
1533-1810
MIGUEL ÁNGEL
GONZÁLEZ QUIROGA
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America M.A. in Latin American History, Universidad de
las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, 1977.
Professor, Colegio de Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
Conflict and Commonality in the Texas-Mexico Border Region, 1830-1880
DAVID E. NARRETT
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America Ph.D.in History, Cornell University, 1981.
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington.
Frontiers of Adventurism and Intrigue:
The West Florida, Louisiana, and Texas-Mexican Borderlands, 1763-1823
JOHN W. WEBER
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas
History
Ph.D. in History, College of William and Mary, 2008
The Shadow of the Revolution:
South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the Evolution of
Modern American Labor Relations
Past Recipients of Clements Center Research Fellowships
*2007-2008*
DANIEL HERMAN
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1995.
Associate
Professor of History, Central Washington University.
Under
the Tonto Rim: Honor, Conscience, and Culture in the West, 1880-1930,
Under contract with Yale University Press.
JACQUELINE MOORE
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas
History.
Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Maryland, 1994.
Professor of History, Austin College.
Cow Boys and Cattle Men:
Nineteenth Century Masculinity and Class on the Texas Frontier,
Under contract with New York University Press.
JOAQUÍN RIVAYA-MARTÍNEZ
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D., Anthropology, UCLA, 2006.
Assistant Professor of History, 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.
Ph.D., Borderlands History, University of
Texas, El Paso, 2006.
Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, El Paso.
“Between Homelands: The Expulsion of Chinese Mexican Families from Mexico
to China and Repatriation to Mexico, 1931-1962.”
*2006-2007*
S. DEBORAH
KANG
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D., American History, 2005 and M.A., Jurisprudence and Social Policy,
University of California, Berkeley.
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University.
“The Legal Construction of the Borderlands:
The INS, Immigration
Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border.”
ANDREW NEEDHAM
The Bill & Rita Clements
Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America.
Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006.
Assistant Professor of History, New York University.
"Power Lines:
Urban Space, Energy Development, and the Making of the Modern Southwest,
1945-1975.”
MONICA PERALES
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas
History.
Ph.D., History,
Stanford, 2004.
Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston.
“Smeltertown: A Biography of
a Mexican American Community, 1882-1973.”
CYNTHIA RADDING
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D., History, University of California San Diego, 1990.
Director, Latin American & Iberian Institute and
Professor of Latin American History, University of New Mexico.
"In the
Shadow of Empire: Ecology, History, and Culture in Two Colonial
Frontiers."
CHRIS WILSON
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study
of Southwestern America.
M.A., Art History and Architectural
History, University of New Mexico, 1981.
J.B. Jackson Professor of
Cultural Landscape Studies, School of Architecture and Planning,
University of New Mexico.
"On Foot: The Life, Death and Rebirth of
Southwest Urbanism."
*2005-2006*
DAVID
ADAMS
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ed.D.,
Social Studies Education, Indiana University and
M.A. in History,
Northeastern Illinois University.
Professor
Emeritus
of Education and History, Cleveland State University,
Specializing in
Native American History, History of the West, and History of Education.
"Coming of Age
on the Southwest Frontier: A Tri-Cultural History, 1890-1990."
BRIAN DELAY
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 2004.
Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.
The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian
Raids and the U.S.- Mexican War,
Forthcoming Yale
University Press, September 2008.
ERIC MEEKS
The
Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America.
Ph.D. (2001) and M.A. in History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Associate Professor of History, Northern Arizona University.
Border Citizens:
The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona,
University of Texas Press,
2007. Published in cooperation
with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors: Finalist, 2008 National Council on Public
History Book Award
*2004-2005*
LAURA HERNÁNDEZ-EHRISMAN
The Bill & Rita
Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America.
Ph.D. (2003) and M.A., American Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Adjunct Professor of History, St. Edwards University, Austin.
Inventing the Fiesta City:
Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio,
University of New Mexico Press,
2008. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies.
BRIAN FREHNER
The
Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America.
Ph.D., History, University of Oklahoma.
Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University.
"From
Creekology to Geology:
Finding and Conserving Oil on the Southern Plains, 1820-1930."
ANDREW GRAYBILL
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D. (2003) and M.A., History, Princeton University,
Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and
the North American Frontier, 1875-1910,
University of
Nebraska Press and University of Calgary Press, 2007. Published in
cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
Southern Methodist University
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.
Ph.D., History, University of Chicago, 2001.
Assistant Professor of
History, University
of Missouri, St. Louis.
“Bordering Modernities: Race, Masculinity, and the Cultural
Politics of Mexico - U.S. Migration.”
MARC RODRIGUEZ
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D. and M.A.,
United States History, Northwestern University, 2000 and
J.D., University of Wisconsin School of Law, 2001.
Assistant Professor of History and concurrent Assistant Professor
of Law,
University of Notre Dame.
Mexican
Americanism:
The Tejano Diaspora and
Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin after 1950,
Under contract with
University of North Carolina Press.
SYLVIA RODRÍGUEZ
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern
America.
Ph.D.,
Anthropology and Psychology,
Stanford University.
Professor of Anthropology and
Director of the
Alfonso Ortiz Center for
Intercultural Studies, University of New Mexico.
Acequia:
SAR Press, 2006. Published in cooperation with the William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors: Winner of the 2007 ALLA Book Award from the
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists.
*2002-2003
FLANNERY BURKE
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow
for the Study of Southwestern America.
Ph.D., American History, University of Wisconsin.
Assistant Professor of History, St. Louis University.
From Greenwich
Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s.
University Press of Kansas, May 2008.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies.
COLLEEN O'NEILL
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D., American History, Rutgers University, 1997.
Associate Professor of History, Utah State University and
Associate Editor,
Western Historical Quarterly.
Working the Navajo
Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century,
University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors:
Winner of the
2006 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá
Award for best historical publication (by an individual) from the
Historical Society of New Mexico.
TISA WENGER
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of
Southwestern America.
Ph.D., Religious Studies, Princeton, 2002.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State University.
Savage Debauchery or Sacred Communion? Religion and the Primitive
in
the Pueblo Dance Controversy,
Under contract with University of North Carolina Press.
*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.
Rio Grande
Crossings: Identity and Nation in the
Mexico-Texas Borderlands,
1749-1890,
Under contract with Duke University Press.
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.
Assistant Professor of History, Texas Women's University.
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.
Associate Professor of History and Co-director,
Center for Borderlands
and
Trans-cultural Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Comanche Empire,
Yale University Press, 2008.
Published in cooperation with the William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors: An alternate selection of History Book Club, Military Book Club,
Book-of-the-Month 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."
*2000-2001*
MARTIN PADGET
The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies.
Ph.D., English and American Literature, University of California, San
Diego
Lecturer, University of
Wales.
Indian
Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840 -1935,
University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors:
Named a Top Pick for 2004 in the Southwest
Books of the Year from the Tucson-Pima County Public Library.
RAÚL A. RAMOS
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History.
Ph.D., American History, Yale University, 1999.
Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston.
Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861,
University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies.
MARSHA
WEISIGER
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in
Southwest History.
Ph.D., American History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000.
Assistant Professor of History, New
Mexico State University.
Sheep Dreams: Environment,
Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country,
Under contract with University of
Washington Press, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series.
*1999-2000*
JULIANA BARR
The Summerfield Roberts Fellowship in Texas
History.
Ph.D.(1999) and M.A., U.S. Women's History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Associate Professor of History, University of Florida at Gainesville.
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman:
Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands,
University of North Carolina Press,
2007. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center
for Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors: 2007 William P.
Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, 2007 Liz Carpenter Award from the Texas State Historical Association
and
the Berkshire Conference of
Women Historians Book Prize for 2007
WILLIAM deBUYS
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Senior Fellow in
Southwest History.
Ph.D., American Civilization, University of Texas.
Independent scholar and environmental consultant.
Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell,
Island Press, 2001.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies.
HEATHER TRIGG
The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies.
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Center Scientist in Environmental Archaeology, University of
Massachusetts, Boston.
From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial
New Mexico, University of Arizona Press, 2005.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies.
*1998-1999*
STEVEN REICH
The Summerlee
Fellow in Texas History.
Ph.D., American History, Northwestern University, 1998.
Associate 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 E. SNEAD
The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies.
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, George Mason University.
Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology,
The
University of Arizona Press, 2001. Paperback edition, 2004.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest
Studies.
*1997-1998*
JAMES MILLER
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History.
Ph.D., American History, Emory University.
Associate Professor of History, Carleton University.
South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South,
University of Virginia Press, 2002. Published in cooperation with
the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
SAM TRUETT
The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies.
Ph.D., Western U.S. and Environmental History, Yale University, 1997.
Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico.
Fugitive Landscapes:
The Forgotten History of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,
Yale University Press, 2006.
Published in cooperation with the William P.
Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Awards and Honors:
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 by Choice
Magazine . Truett selected
as Top Young
Historian" by HNN History News Network (April 2008).
*1996-1997*
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.
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Books
written by Clements Center Fellows published in cooperation with the
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Peace Came in the Form of a
Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the
Texas Borderlands
by Juliana Barr
From Greenwich Village
to Taos: Primitivism and Place at
Mabel Dodge Luhan's
by Flannery Burke
Stephen F. Austin,
Empresario of Texas
by Gregg Cantrell
Seeing Things Whole:
The Essential John
Wesley Powell
by
William DeBuys
War of a
Thousand Deserts:
Indian Raids and the US-Mexican War
by Brian Delay
Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910
by Andrew Graybill
The Comanche Empire
by Pekka Hämäläinen
Inventing
the Fiesta City:
Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio
by Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman
Border Citizens: The Making
of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona
by Eric Meeks
South by Southwest:
Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South
by James Miller
Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
by Colleen O'Neil
Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935
by Martin Padget
Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
by Raúl Ramos
Acequia: Water-Sharing,
Sanctity and Place
by Sylvia Rodriquez
Ruins and Rivals: The
Making of Southwest Archaeology
by James E. Snead,
now republished in paperback!
From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico
by Heather B. Trigg
Fugitive Landscapes: The
Forgotten History of the US-Mexican Borderlands
by Sam Truett,
now republished in paperback!
Death and Dying in New
Mexico
by Martina Will de Chaparro
Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream
by
Nancy Beck
Young