Past Symposia
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| 2023-2024 | Contested Commemorations: Public Memory in the South and West | Pending | Ari Kelman and Thavolia Glymph, eds. | A joint symposium with the Autry Museum of American Art and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
| 2022-2023 | Religion in the North American West | Pending | Brandi Denison and Brett Hendrickson, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis |
| 2021-2022 | Campuses and Colonialism | Pending | Stephen Kantrowitz, Malinda Maynor Lowery, and Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, eds. | Co-sponsored by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and Emory University |
| 2019-2020 | Global Environmental Borderlands in the Age of Empire | Pending | Robert Batchelor, David Bello, and Ryan Jones, eds. | Sponsored by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies |
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2018-2019 |
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022 |
Kent Blansett, Cathleen Cahill, and Andrew Needham, eds. |
Co-sponsored with New York University |
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2017-2018 |
Stanford University Press, 2022 |
Neil Foley and James Hollifield, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU |
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2016-2017 |
Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West |
University Press of Kansas, 2018 |
Pablo Mitchell and Katrina Jagodinsky, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s History Department and Center for Great Plains Studies |
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Fall 2016 |
Public Forum |
Farina King, Neil Foley, Steve Denson, Ruth Ann Elmore, co-organizers |
With support from SMU's Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences, the Edwin L. Cox School of Business, the William P. Clements Department of History, the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute though the Scott-Hawkins Fund,and the Center for Presidential History |
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2015-2016 |
These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence Along the U.S.-Mexican Border |
The David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History with the University of North Carolina Press, 2022 |
Andrew R. Torget and Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle, eds. |
In partnership with Instituto Mora of Mexico City, and with support from SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program and the Latino Cultural Center, a division of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs |
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2014-2015 |
Rutgers University Press, 2017 |
Melanie DuPuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Comparative Border Studies Program at Arizona State University |
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2013-2014 |
University of California Press, February 2015. |
Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center |
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2012-2013 |
Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America & its Borderlands |
SAR Press, 2015 |
James F. Brooks and Bonnie Martin, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe |
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2011-2012 |
Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarceration, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance |
University of North Carolina Press, 2019 |
Robert T. Chase, ed. |
Co-sponsored with the Center of the America West, University of Colorado |
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2010-2011 |
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 |
Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania |
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2009-2010 |
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest |
University of California Press, 2012 |
David Wallace Adams and Crista Deluzio, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico and the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center |
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2008-2009 |
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 |
Darren Dochuk and Michelle Nickerson, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West |
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2007-2008 |
Indians & Energy: |
SAR Press, 2010 |
James F. Brooks and Sherry L. Smith, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe |
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2006-2007 |
Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories |
Duke University Press, 2010 |
Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds. |
Co-sponsored with Department of History at Simon Fraser University |
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2005-2006 |
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands |
Duke University Press, 2009 |
Alexis McCrossen, ed. |
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2004-2005 |
University Press of Kansas, 2008 |
Jeff Roche, ed. |
With support from SMU’s John G. Tower Center for Political Studies |
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2003-2004 |
Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories |
University of Illinois Press, 2008 |
John R. Chavez and Vicki Ruiz, eds. |
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2002 |
Continental Crossroads: |
Duke University Press, 2004 |
Samuel Truett and Elliott Young, eds. |
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2001-2002 |
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on New Spain's North American Frontiers |
University of New Mexico Press, 2005 |
Frank de la Teja and Ross Frank, eds. |
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2000-2001 |
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 |
Sherry L. Smith, ed. |
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| 2000 | Sacred Space: Man and the Divine in Mexico, Central American, and the Southwestern United States | Forthcoming | With essays by David J. Weber, Mike Adler, David Freidel, James Early, and William Taylor | Co-sponsored with SMU's Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, the Dallas Historical Society, and the Mexican Institute for International Cooperation, including photo exhibit at Dallas Fair Park by photographer Carolyn Brown. |
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1999-2000 |
University of New Mexico Press, 2004 |
Hal Rothman, ed. |
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1999 |
Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 1999 |
Jerry R. Craddock, ed., and John H. R. Polt, trans. |
Co-sponsored with Research Center for Romance Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
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1998 |
Confluent Passions: Eanger Irving Couse's Collection of Historic Pueblo Pottery & Related Photographic Studies for Paintings |
Clements Center for Southwest Studies, the Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, 1998 |
Philip Van Keuren, ed. |
Co-sponsored with the Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU |
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1996 |
The American Southwest -- Old Horizons, New Vistas |
The Inaugural 1996 Annual Public Symposium |
Opening remarks by Patricia Limerick. Presenters: Ramón Gutiérrez, Bill Goetzmann, and Bill Reese. |
Accompanying the symposium was a special exhibit of the works of the Native American artist John Nieto. |
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