People

Director

Yoav Di-Capua
Earl E. Sheffield Regents Professor in History

Faculty Research Fellows

Erika M. Bsumek, Ellen Clarke Temple Chair in the History of Women; Professor of History
Project: Title forthcoming

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History
Project: Categories as Prisons

Laurie B. Green, Associate Professor of History
Project: Hungry in America: A Crisis of Race, Power, and Food Policy

Internal Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Diana Heredia-López
Project: Dissecting Cochineal’s Mythical Red: Local Parasites, Cross-Regional Knowledge, and the Erasure of Indigenous Market Vitality in Early Modern New Spain

Alina Scott
Project: Murder by Inches’: Indigenous Intellectuals, Land, and Sovereignty: Wampanoag Petitioning in Massachusetts

Graduate Research Assistant

Gary Leo Dunbar (Fall Semester)
Doctoral Candidate in History; B.A., University of Oregon; and M.A., Central Michigan University (CMU) in the U.S. and Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in Mexico. 

Rafael Nieto-Bello (Spring Semester)
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

Andrew Lee Butters, M. Phil
Journalist and Independent Scholar; former Time Magazine bureau chief; former associate professor in the School of Journalism & Media at the University of Texas at Austin
Project: Media Framing of the Middle East Conflcit in Historical Context

Sarah Coleman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Texas State University
Project: Crafting Congress: Sam Rayburn and Congressional Power

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

Lena Oak Suk, Ph.D.
Assistant 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

Shouyue Zhang 张守岳
Doctoral Candidate in History
The University of Melbourne
Project: "From Borderlands to Hinterlands: Chinese Migration and Settlement in Twentieth-Century Texas"

Past Fellows and Affiliates by Year

- 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