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
Diana Heredia-López, Ph.D
Project: Dissecting Cochineal’s Mythical Red: Local Parasites, Cross-Regional Knowledge, and theErasure of Indigenous Market Vitality in Early Modern New Spain
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.
Director, Skills and Awards, Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin
Project: Amor and K-pop: Affective Economies between Brazil and Korea
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