Benjamin J. Young is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame and a 2024–2025 Distinguished Graduate Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. His principal research interests lie at the intersections of religion, political economy, and metropolitan development in modern American history. His work has appeared in venues like Cold War History, Modern American History, The Metropole, and The Washington Post. Before coming to Notre Dame, he received his BA in History and Religion from Baylor University.

Omar Valerio-Jiménez is Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He teaches courses on Latinxs, borderlands, Texas, race/ethnicity, and immigration. His publications include Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), The Latina/o Midwest Reader (University of Illinois Press, 2017), Major Problems in Latina/o History (Cengage/Wadsworth, 2014), and River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands (Duke University Press, 2013). With funding by an Award for Faculty from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is working on his third book, “Challenging Exclusion in Education,” a comparative study of educational reform efforts in New Mexico and Texas.

Patricia Markert is an historical archaeologist whose research examines the material and narrative ways communities engage in placemaking in the generations following migration events. She is also interested in the ways national myths exist in conversation with local migration narratives and practices. Since 2017, she has directed the community-based Old D’Hanis Archaeological Mapping Project and the Castro Colonies Oral History Project in Medina County, TX. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Geographic Society, Binghamton University, Western University, Council of Texas Archeologists, and Medina County Historical Commission. She is an assistant professor of anthropology at The University of Western Ontario.

Sam W. Haynes is a professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also serves as director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies. He is the author of four books and several edited works that focus on the history of race, national identity, and power in nineteenth century Texas and the American Southwest. His most recent work, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas, was published by Basic Books in 2022. As Center director, Haynes also oversees two digital humanities projects, “A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War,” and “Texas in Turmoil: Mapping Interethnic Violence, 1821-1879.”

Holly Harris is a PhD student and University PhD Fellow at Southern Methodist University. Holly’s research focuses on allied prisoners of war during the last year of World War II. She is interested in how these events connect to geopolitics, violence, memory, and welfare. Her research has been supported by the United States Air Force Academy, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Historical Association, the Society for Military History, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Brett Barnard is a dual degree candidate at the University of North Texas, having completed his M.L.S. with the College of Information, and currently completing his M.A. in History with the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. His research foci include cultural history, religious history, the history of American nuns, and the activities of the Catholic Church during the papacy of Pope Pius XII and the Second World War. At the time of writing, he has started a new position with the UNT Library Annex as a Graduate Student Assistant, helping with the organization and development of the inter-university Voices of the Eastern Shore Project. He received his B.A. from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin and hopes to pursue a career in academic librarianship, archival work, or education.

Christine Adame is an intermedia artist from Laredo, Texas. Her artwork relates to heritage, especially as informed by her mestiza identity. Her work resembles artifacts built from layered processes—including drawing, fibers, digital fabrication, and printmaking. Christine earned her B.S. in Architectural Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.F.A. in Intermedia Studio from The University of Texas at Arlington. She has exhibited in Texas, the Midwest, and Japan and has led digital fabrication workshops nationally and internationally.

Meredith Cawley is a multimedia artist based in Texas. She currently teaches at the University of North Texas. Her 10 years as an outreach educator at the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History inspire, inform, and drive her practice. Her current line of inquiry focuses on how cultural opinions represent, shape, and affect the bear.

Julia Caswell is an artist living and working in DFW. JCF’s art researches the nuances of cultural value systems through performance, video, and sculptural art making. Her work, influenced by her experiences as a neurodivergent individual, blends advertising aesthetics with mental health themes and early childhood testing and learning environments. She explores societal messages on happiness and self-perception, the invisibility of labor, and diversity of knowledge systems, creating immersive installations that engage both the body and cognition. Currently pursuing her MFA at the University of North Texas, Julia’s art invites viewers to question and reflect on human perception and societal narratives in a contemporary attention economy.

Heather Myers is from Altoona, PA. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia University. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. She was a 2018 AWP Intros Award Winner. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Door=Jar, Keystone: Poets on Pennsylvania, The Journal, Palette Poetry, Puerto Del Sol and elsewhere.

Montana Williamson is a doctoral candidate and graduate teaching assistant at West Virginia University.
Her research has been supported by the Eberly College at WVU, the WVU History Department, the WVU Women and Gender Studies Department, and the West Virginia Humanities Council. She has worked as a research assistant for the Civil War Governors of Kentucky and the West Virginia Humanities Council. She is the recipient of the Robert and Wynona Wilkins Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Ashley is a PhD candidate in art history at Columbia University. She has contributed to exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Wallach Art Gallery, and Bard Graduate Center Gallery. Ashley’s research has been supported by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, the Decorative Arts Trust, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Texas State Historical Association. She will be a 2023-2024 fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was born and raised in Austin, Texas.

Whitney Nell Stewart is a historian of the US South. She is author of This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming Fall 2023), as well as articles in Winterthur Portfolio, Journal of Social History, and Journal of the Early Republic, among other publications. Her work has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, as well as research and writing fellowships at the Smithsonian, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Huntington Library, and the Texas State Historical Association, among others. She is an assistant professor of history and faculty in the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Jason Reed is a Texas-based artist and educator whose work deals with the confluence of land, politics, and visual histories. He is a Professor of Photography and the Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University and holds a BA in Geography from the University of Texas and an MFA in Photography from Illinois State University. Reed has created exhibitions at venues such as Artpace in San Antonio, Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, storefront windows in Miles, Texas, and Galerie Reinthaler in Vienna, Austria.

William Robert Billups is a history PhD candidate at Emory University and an incoming 2023–2024 Ambrose Monell Foundation Funded National Fellow in Technology and Democracy at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. He researches racial violence and its effects on the civil rights movement and US law and law enforcement. Before beginning his PhD at Emory University, Robert earned a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s degree in American History from the University of Cambridge. He has written public-facing scholarship for the Washington Post and peer-reviewed articles for the Journal of American History and the Journal of Southern History.

Newly Paul is a media and politics researcher and assistant professor of journalism at the University of North Texas. Her research areas include intercultural communication, race and gender in politics, and entertainment studies through a gendered lens. She has taught various journalism classes such as principles of news, news reporting and writing, copyediting, political reporting, and minorities in media.

Christopher Ewing is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University. His book, The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1970, examines the entanglement of racism and antiracism in shaping queer German movements in the aftermath of gay liberation. He has published in The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Sexualities, and Sexuality & Culture and is currently co-editing a collection titled Reading Queer Media, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.

Anna Chotlos’s essays and poems have recently appeared in Split Lip, Hotel Amerika, Sweet Lit, and River Teeth’s Beautiful Things. She holds an MA from Ohio University and now teaches and writes in Denton, Texas where she is pursuing a PhD in creative writing at the University of North Texas.

Stéphane Audard, jazz guitarist, has recorded with Michel Legrand. He teaches at the Paris Conservatory and directs the Sorbonne Big Band. He is currently a doctoral student at Sorbonne University under the direction of Laurent Cugny. He is an associate researcher at the musicology laboratory (Iremus) of the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS).

I am a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University College Station, studying under Dr. Carlos Blanton. I received my degrees from the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas A&M. My dissertation project explores how race influenced the growth of education in Texas from a state and local level from 1850 through 1900. I track the growth of schoolhouses and demography in the nineteenth century using GIS mapping. My research explores how education changes with the addition of African Americans into the education system and how the student demographic changes from the east to the west with the increased population of Spanish-speaking communities.

Ann Tran is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Studies & Ethnicity at USC. She graduated magna cum laude from Texas Christian University with B.A.s in History and English in 2020. Her developing dissertation project explores relational racial formations in the U.S. Gulf South through the lens of the postwar Vietnamese diaspora. Her previous research projects have looked at Vietnamese student anti-war movements in the United States in the late 1960s and humanitarian hygiene programs in rural Vietnam during the American War.

Chelsea Stallings is a PhD student at Texas Christian University. Her research interests include African American and racial injustice studies, Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction histories, and U.S. New South and Jim Crow studies. Her doctoral research focuses on white supremacist efforts in North Texas during the critical decades between Reconstruction and the rise of the early twentieth-century KKK. She serves as an advisory member for Texas Woman’s University’s ‘Quakertown Stories’ initiative, and her research builds upon her master’s thesis, which historicized the forced removal of a North Texas freedmen’s community called Quakertown.

Gabrielle Lyle is currently a PhD student in History at Texas A&M University where she has already earned her MA in History. She is pursuing a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities. Gabrielle holds a BA in International Studies from The Ohio State University. Her research examines the development of Jewish communities in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Gabrielle’s work has received support from the Arizona Historical Society, the Southern Jewish Historical Society, and the Texas Jewish Historical Society in addition to the Portal to Texas History.

Amy E. Earhart is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty of Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. Earhart has participated in grants and fellowship received from the NEH, ACLS, and the Mellon Foundation and, in 2020, Earhart received a NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication for her book length digital project “Digital Humanities and the Infrastructures of Race in African-American Literature.” She has published scholarship on a variety of digital humanities topics, with work that includes a monograph Traces of Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (U Michigan Press 2015), a co-edited collection The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age (U Michigan Press 2010), and a number of articles and book chapters in volumes including the Debates in Digital Humanities series, DHQ, DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, and Textual Cultures.

Dr. Ervin James III is an associate professor of history at Paul Quinn College located in Dallas, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Tuskegee University and his master’s and doctorate degrees in history from Texas Southern University and Texas A&M University, respectively. Erv’s scholarly research and writing contributions have been published by The Journal of African American History, The Journal of South Texas, and the Oxford University Press. Currently, he is engaged in conducting research to promote the history of Paul Quinn College for the institution’s 150th anniversary celebration.

Megan J. Arlett was born in the UK, grew up in Spain, and now lives in Texas where she recently completed her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. The recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes, her poetry and essays have appeared in Best New Poets 2019, Best New British and Irish Poets, The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, and Third Coast.

Dr. Claire Wolnisty is an Assistant Professor of early United States history at Austin College. Her research interests include nineteenth-century transnational history, the US Civil War, Texas, slavery, and gender. Her projects include her first book, A Different Manifest Destiny, and work on the Council of Independent Colleges’ Legacies of American Slavery grant. Dr. Wolnisty’s classes include Texas history, Pirates and Smugglers, the US Civil War and Reconstruction, and Early Nineteenth-Century US history.

Aza Pace’s poems appear in The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, Tupelo Quarterly, New Ohio Review, Passages North, Mudlark, Bayou, and elsewhere. She is the winner of two Academy of American Poets University Prizes and an Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston and is currently pursuing her PhD at UNT, where she serves as Editor-in-Chief of American Literary Review.

Joel Zapata is Assistant Professor at Oregon State University’s School of History, Philosophy, and Religion. Zapata completed his Ph.D. at Southern Methodist University, and his dissertation won the 2020 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Dissertation Award. His “Taking Chicana/o Activist History to the Public” received the Frederick C. Luebke Award for the best article published in the Great Plains Quarterly in 2018.

Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn serves as Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. He is the co-author or co-editor of three books: Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk’s Public Schools (University of Virginia Press, 2012); The Enemy Within Never Did Without: German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945 (Texas Review Press, 2015); and The Seedtime, the Work and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America (University of Florida Press, 2018). In addition, Littlejohn has published numerous articles with his co-author Charles H. Ford, and he is also an active digital/public historian. His co-curricular web projects include: Lynching in Texas; East Texas History; and HistoricalMX.

Geoffrey Lewis was born and raised in Alvin Texas. He is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Texas Tech University. He earned degrees from Graceland University and the University of Houston-Clear Lake. At both institutions he studied history with an emphasis on United States foreign relations.

Ronald W. Davis II is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is studying under the direction of Dr. Daina Ramey Berry. His dissertation project examines enslaved cowboys, labor, and resistance in antebellum Texas. He is a twenty-four-year veteran of the U.S. military and served in various capacities through five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

A Rio Grande Valley native, Bobby Cervantes is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Kansas. His research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Organization of American Historians, and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, among others. From 2018 to 2021, he was assistant editor of American Studies, the quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Mid-America American Studies Association. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

Brooks Winfree is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. For the 2019-2020 academic year, he was a fellow at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. His scholarship examines how enslaved African Americans interacted with the diverse indigenous populations they encountered in antebellum Texas. From 2018 until 2020, he was the assistant editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Charles B. Travis IV holds a PhD in Geography from Trinity College, The University of Dublin, as well as MAs in Geography and Planning and Mass Communication, and a BA in Psychology. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Geography with the Department of History at the University of Texas, Arlington, and a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Environmental Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. Charles is an editorial board member of the journal Literary Geography.

Julia Wetzel is a first year PhD student in the History department. Her research looks at Roman Cosmology in Premodern architecture and she consider herself an Architectural historian in the making. Julia is a Teaching Assistant in her department, and hopes to be a professor one day. She enjoys learning new things and working with material sources which she hopes to share in the classroom one day.

Jecoa Ross (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the University of Texas at El Paso Borderlands History PhD Program, where he specializes in Borderlands and U.S. history, with a minor concentration in the history of Psychiatry and Empire. His research focuses on the history of the Texas sodomy and homosexual conduct statutes, and his work has earned him the UTEP College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Thesis Awards for his undergraduate and master’s theses. Jecoa is also a part-time history instructor at El Paso Community College, a former Mellon fellow with the EPCC-UTEP Humanities Collaborative, and a current full-time parent.

Lacy Molina is a graduate assistant and doctoral student in the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Master of Arts in History from the University of Texas Permian Basin. Her research interests include analyzing the relationship of politics and popular culture and studying higher education, government and legal research information processes.

Hayley Hasik received her bachelor’s degree in history and English from Texas A&M University-Commerce in 2014, a master’s in public history from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2017, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi working under the direction of Dr. Heather M. Stur. Hayley has extensive oral history experience and co-founded the East Texas War and Memory Project in 2012. Her previous scholarly research focused on the American POW experience during WWII and the Vietnam helicopter experience using the life history of a Warrant Officer as a case study. Hayley has presented at numerous academic conferences and has published several articles in the Sound Historian and War, Literature, and the Arts.

Megan J. Arlett was born in the UK, grew up in Spain, and now lives in Texas where she is pursuing her PhD. The recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2019, Best New British and Irish Poets, The Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, and Third Coast.

Jordan Johnson is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Southwestern University in English, Spanish, and Feminist Studies, and is the recipient of the Debbie Ellis Award in Feminist Studies.

Trey Murphy is an energy geographer and PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina where he examines the intrinsic relationship between the governance of petroleum extraction and Texas property ownership.

Timothy Vale attended the University of Houston receiving a Bachelor’s degree in History and minor in Anthropology in 2013. He returned to the University of Houston in 2015 as a master’s student and transferred to the PhD program in August of 2016. His focus is on History of American Medicine and LGBT History.

Laura L. Oviedo is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University who grew up along the U.S.-Mexico border in Pharr, Texas. She is currently a Smithsonian Pre-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Division of Political and Military History at the National Museum of American History.

Edward Etkins is a graduate of the Philadelphia Musical Academy, where he received his BM and BME. Edward achieved his Master of Music degree from Arcadia University, where he currently is an adjunct professor of music. He also completed graduate studies at Rutgers University.

Niloofar Gholamrezaei is a PhD student in Fine Arts: Critical Studies and Artistic Practice at Texas Tech University. Her dissertation is a cross-cultural investigation of two painters of the twentieth century, Otto Dix (1891-1969 Germany) and Kamal-Al-Molk (or Mohammad Ghaffari, 1848-1940, Iran).

Alejandra C. Garza is currently the American Historical Association Career Diversity Fellow and a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a portfolio student in the Mexican American Latina/o Studies Department.

John A. Carranza is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he specializes in the history of medicine and disability. A San Antonio native, he received his BA from University of the Incarnate Word and his MA from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Haley Brown is a master’s student and Teaching Assistant at the University of North Texas who plans on graduating in Spring 2020. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history and minor in English at the University of North Texas. In the 2019-2020 academic school year, Haley will complete her thesis on the lynching of women in Texas.

Agatha Beins teaches in the Department of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University. Her book Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity analyzes US feminist newsletters and newspapers published in the 1970s. In addition to her interest in feminist print cultures, she writes and teaches about the relationship between art and activism, feminist pedagogies, the institutionalization of women’s studies, and food studies. She also serves as editor for the online, open access journal [Films for the Feminist Classroom][].

Dr. Evelyn Montgomery is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at Dallas Heritage Village, an outdoor museum that contains two of the cabins recorded by Dr. Jordan. She holds degrees in architecture and history, with a particular interest in American houses and domestic life, particularly for Victorians and on the frontier. She frequently presents on these subjects to both academic and popular audiences. She supports historic preservation through volunteer efforts, service on the Dallas Landmark Commission, and the maintenance and interpretation of the buildings of Dallas Heritage Village.

Born and raised in the state of Texas, Jessica Webb received her Bachelor’s degree in History from Austin College in 2012. In 2014, she obtained her Master’s Degree in American History from TCU in Fort Worth and is working towards her Ph.D. there as well. Her research interests focus on the intersections of gender and sexuality and entrepreneurship within the framework of prostitution. She has been the recipient of several awards including the Boller Dissertation Fellowship and the Erwin E. Smith Research Fellowship.

Shay O’Brien is a second-year Sociology student at Princeton studying elites and conservatives in the United States. Her areas of interest include economic sociology, elite sociology, race & ethnicity, and religion. Before beginning graduate school, Shay worked on a large-scale randomized control trial at the social policy research firm MDRC. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Anthropology, where she was a research assistant in the Anthropology department and won the prizes for Best Honors Thesis and Highest Achievement in Linguistic Anthropology.

Scot McFarlane grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, and Palestine, Texas near the Trinity River. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University, his work has appeared in The Journal of Southern History and Environmental History. At Columbia, Scot has helped teach Mexican History, the History of the South, the History of New York, and is currently drafting a syllabus for a seminar on the history of rivers in North America. Prior to moving to NYC, Scot taught writing and history at high schools in the Willamette River Valley of Oregon. You can follow his research on his blog.

Richard B. McCaslin, TSHA Endowed Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas, is the author or editor of eighteen books. One of the best known is Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862, which won the Tullis Prize and an AASLH commendation. He also wrote Lee in the Shadow of Washington, which received the Laney Prize and the Slatten Award, and was nominated for a Pulitzer. Another book, At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997, earned the Award of Merit from the Texas Philosophical Society. Yet another, Fighting Stock: John S. “Rip” Ford in Texas, received the Pate Award and Bates Award.

Kimberly Jackson is a master’s student and Teaching Assistant in the History Department at the University of North Texas. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history and mathematics at the University of North Texas. In the 2018-2019 academic school year, Kimberly will complete her thesis on the Civilian Conservation Corps in Big Bend National Park. Her larger academic interests include borderlands and environmental history and hopes to apply her research to larger studies of the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Dr. Kenna Lang Archer is an instructor at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where she teaches U.S. environmental history, Texas history, and American history. Her first book, Unruly Waters, was published by University of New Mexico Press. She recently finished writing an updated edition of Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land with John Opie and Char Miller. She will be presenting her current research project at the Western History Association meeting in October.

Ms. Giselle Greenidge is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. Her major concentration is Global and Comparative Sociology and her minor concentration is Social Stratification. Ms. Greenidge is a teaching fellow at UNT, and her research interests include culture, globalization, and immigration.

Dr. Kenna Lang Archer is an instructor at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where she teaches U.S. environmental history, Texas history and American history. Her first book, Unruly Waters, was published by University of New Mexico Press. She recently finished writing an updated edition of Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land with John Opie and Char Miller. She will be presenting her current research project at the Western History Association meeting in October.

Brian Elliot is a Ph.D. Student and Teaching Fellow with the History Department at the University of North Texas. Brian’s research focuses on slavery during the Civil War, and the legacy of former slaves as “Black Confederates.” Brian’s published materials include his Master’s thesis “Peculiar Pairings: Texas Confederates and their Black Body Servants,” as well as a number of published book reviews. Brian has presented his research at several conferences, including at the Society for Military History, and the Southwest Social Science Association, and has given informal talks on his research and the utility of digital resources in historical research.

Heather Sinclair has a background in professional midwifery and activism and received her Ph.D. in history in 2016 from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her dissertation is entitled “Birth City: Race and Violence in the History of Childbirth and Midwifery in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Borderlands, 1907-2013.” She is currently a lecturer in history and women’s studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. She received a B.A. in history and certificate in women’s studies from Duke University.

Robin Roe is a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University and received her BA and MA in History from Texas A&M University. Her dissertation examines how media used weather-related natural disasters in Texas and the Southwest border region in the early Twentieth Century to manipulate public perceptions of race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, and class, and how some of those victims contested that manipulation. She is a veteran of the U. S. Air Force and has worked as a copy editor and in the computer industry before beginning her graduate work. She is particularly interested in the potential of digital humanities for historical research.

Matthew Carr is a student in Columbia University’s political science Ph.D .program. His research focuses on American political institutions. He’s working on a project – which makes extensive use of archival resources – collecting state-level political party platforms from 1960 through the present day, in order to trace the evolution of party development.

Tiffany J. González grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and in North Richland Hills, Texas. Currently she is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Texas A&M University. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degree in History from Texas Tech University. In the 2017-2018 academic year, Tiffany will conduct more research and begin the writing phase for the dissertation. Her work has received support from the Texas State Historical Association, the East Texas Historical Association, the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, and now the Portal to Texas History.

Gregg Cantrell holds the Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History at Texas Christian University. He is the author of several books and articles, including Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas. He is a coauthor of the bestselling Texas History textbook, The History of Texas, coauthored with Robert A. Calvert and Arnoldo De León. In 2013-2014 he was president of the Texas State Historical Association, and he is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Dr. Stacey Jocoy is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Tech University, School of Music. She is an Early Modern specialist focused on the material culture, cultural politics, and historiography of the period.

Wesley G. Phelps received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of North Texas and his Ph.D. in history from Rice University. His current research focuses on gay and lesbian political activism in the late twentieth century.

Laura Lee Oviedo is a native of Pharr, Texas and is currently a Ph.D. student of history at Texas A&M University. Laura’s dissertation employs a comparative framework to examine the Militarization of Mexican and Puerto Rican Women’s Lives during World War II and the Politics of Race, Class, Gender, and Citizenship.

David J. Cameron is a doctoral candidate in Chicano/Latino and Twentieth-Century United States History at Texas A&M University His project Race and Religion in the Bayou City: Latino/a, African American, and Anglo Baptists in Houston’s Long Civil Rights Movement​ ​examines how the intersections of race and religion in the Bayou City shaped Houston-area Baptists’ participation in the struggle for civil rights through religious associations, churches, and leaders.

Tyler Thompson is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University. His project *Representations of American Indians in Texas Memory and Mythology, 1875-1936

Dennis Michael Mims is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas. His project A Queer History of Dallas: The Formation, Development, and Integration of Big D’s LGBT Community, 1965-2005 ​ shows how significantly things changed for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals living within the city of Dallas during these four decades.

Hillary Anderson is a PhD candidate in History at Texas A&M University. Her project Radicalizing the South: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in 1970s Liberation Movements seeks to locate subaltern voices that add depth, richness, a fresh geography, and complexity to the historical narrative of civil rights in the 1970s.

Nancy E. Baker earned her Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. Her project Texas Feminist Legal Reformers in the 20^th Century focuses on Texas feminist legal reformers who modernized the state’s laws, bringing Texas from worst in the nation for women to first in the nation to have a unified, reformed Family Code of law.

Chris Babits is a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His project To Cure a Sinful Nation: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Conversion Therapy in the United States from the Second World War to the Present Day is a history of the conversion therapy movement that helps us understand how religion and scientific inquiry intersect as well as the changing norms on gender and sexuality from the early Cold War into post-9/11 America.

Evan C. Rothera is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at The Pennsylvania State University. His project ‘There are in Texas men who have suffered much’: Reconstruction in the Lone Star State examines how Reconstruction unfolded, at the state and local levels, in Texas.

Nakia Parker is completing her third year in the history doctoral program at the University of Texas. Her project Trails of Tears and Freedom: Slavery, Migration, and Emancipation in the Southwest Borderlands, 1830-1887 chronicles the lived experiences and migration patterns of enslaved people of African and Black Indian descent in Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw slaveholding communities in Arkansas, Indian Territory, and Texas between the time of Indian Removal to the passage of the Dawes Act of 1887.

William A. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Security Studies at Angelo State University. His project In the Service of Democracy: American Military Service from World War II to the Present will contribute to a chapter in a broader work on American military service from World War II to the present.

Laura Forsberg is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in English at Harvard University. Her project The Victorian Miniature Book shows how the miniature book re-enchants familiar works and transports the reader from the dull world of full-sized reality into an expansive realm of minute possibility.

Ben Davis holds an MFA in photography and is currently working toward his MS-LS in Archival Studies and Imaging Technology at UNT. His project Historic Architecture of Harrison County Texas investigates the social experience of architecture by documenting cultural rituals and events that took place at historic structures in Texas over 150 years ago.