People
Director
Yoav Di-Capua
Earl E. Sheffield Regents Professor in History
Faculty Research Fellows
Lina del Castillo Associate Professor of History
Project: Colombia’s Paper Empire: Mobilizing Geopolitical Imaginaries in the Age of Revolutions, 1775 –1830
Leonard N. Moore George Littlefield Professor of American History
Project: The Ghosts of Bear Bryant: A Professor’s Memoir of Race, History, and College Football
Aaron B. O'Connell Associate Professor of History
Project: Nation-Breaking: The Global War on Terror at Home & Abroad
Internal Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Rodrigo Salido Moulinié
Project: Covarrubias’ Crossings: Art, Science, and the Global Politics of Ethnographic Image-Making
Clifton E. Sorrell III
Project: At the Heart of the Caribbean: Freedom, Empire and Black Sovereignty in Spanish Jamaica 1510-1690
Graduate Research Assistant
Rafael Nieto-Bello
Doctoral Candidate in History; MA in History, University of Texas at Austin; BA in History and Political Science; Minors in Philosophy and German Language and Culture, University of the Andes
Visiting Research Affiliates
Kathryn Burns, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of History, UNC Chapel Hill
Project: Nuns on the Run
N. L. A. Gharala, Ph.D. (Fall 2026)
Associate Professor of History, University of Houston
Project: "A Black Man from India”: Antonio Ximenes and His Quest for Liberty in the Iberian World
Alexey Golubev, Ph.D. (Fall 2026)
Associate Professor of History, University of Houston
Project: Public communication of science in the Cold War Soviet Union
Marta Kane, Ph.D.
Research Associate in History & French Studies
University of Montpellier | Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences & Humanities (France)
Project: Franco-American Exchanges in Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics from 1870 to 1932
Jennifer M. Meissner
Doctoral Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Project: Growing up Huguenot: Childhood, Youth, and Reformed Identity in Interconfessional France, 1598-1715
Lydia Pyne, Ph.D.
Writer and Historian
Project: The First Color: The Story of Ochre
Justin Randolph, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University
Project: Dixie Against Revolution: The Southern Soldiers and Lawmen Who Fought Radicalism Around the World
Lena Oak Suk, Ph.D.
Scholar, and Associate Director, Investigator Skill-Building, Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship & Creative Endeavors, University of Texas at Austin
Project: In the Darkness of the Cinema: Gender and Movie-Going in Twentieth-Century Urban Brazil
Past Fellows and Affiliates by Year
- 2025-26
- 2024-25
- 2023-24
- 2022-23
- 2021-22
- 2020-21
- 2019-20
- 2018-19
- 2017-18
- 2016-17
- 2015-16
- 2014-15
- 2013-14
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2008-09