Fellows & Affiliates, 2021-2022
Doctoral Student Fellows, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Chaparro-SilvaProject: Democracy and Race in the Americas: Readings of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America South of the Rio Grande
Sheena Cox
Project: The Mexican Empire under Agustin de Iturbide and Indigenous Texas
Gary Leo Dunbar
Project: Pacific Soundings: Race, Abolitionism, and the Birth of Mexican Citizenship
Rafael Nieto-Bello
Project: Relaciones in Response to a World of Questionnaires: Community Knowledge, Ethnicity and Legal Culture from the Spanish Empire’s Towns (c. 1570-1590)
Jesse Ritner
Project: Skiing on the Sacred: The San Francisco Peaks, Indigenous Rights, and the U.S. Ski Industry
Rodrigo Salido Moulinié
Project: Covarrubias’ Crossings: Picturing the New Negro and the Making of Modern Mexico
Haley Schroer
Project: 'They Have Always Worn Spanish Clothes:' Indigenous Elites and Sumptuary Legislation in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Internal Research Fellows
Alison K. Frazier, Associate Professor of History
Project: Varieties of Virtue: Doing Well & Being Good in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Virginia Garrard, Professor of History
Revolutionary Foreign Clergy in Central America: 1968-1990
Aaron O'Connell, Associate Professor of History
Project: Nation-Breaking: The Global War on Terror at Home & Abroad
Megan Raby, Associate Professor of History
Project: “Being Natural”: The Scientific Lives of Marston and Nancy Bell Bates
Internal Postdoctoral Fellows
Juan Carlos De Orellana Sanchez
Project: The Politics of Knowing: Movement, Experience, and Political Writing in the Construction of the Spanish Indies, 1526-1700
Natalie Cincotta
Project: Contesting Sex: Visual Media and the Sexual Revolution in West Germany During the Long 1960s
Graduate Research Assistant
Ashley Garcia
Doctoral Candidate in History, and Coordinator, New Work in Progress Series
Visiting Research Affiliates
Rodolfo John Alaniz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Project: Darwin in the Deep: Marine Invertebrates, Evolutionary Methodologies, and the Nineteenth-Century Debate Over Natural Selection
Paul Hirsch, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Project: Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism
Marta Kane, Ph.D.
Research Associate in History & Social Sciences
University of Montpellier | Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (France)
Project: Franco-American Exchanges in Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics from 1870 to 1932
Carla Rahn Phillip, Ph.D.
Union Pacific Professor Emerita in Comparative Early Modern History, University of Minnesota
Project: Early Modern Exploration and Other Maritime Topics
William D. Phillips, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Minnesota
Project: European World in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Lydia Pyne, Ph.D.
Writer and Historian
Project: Genuine Fakes: The Obsession with Authenticity
Joshua L. Roebke
Author, Instructor, Historian of Science
Project: The Invisible World: The Story of Physics in the Twentieth Century
Lena Oak Suk, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Project: In the Darkness of the Cinema: Gender, Race, and Urban Space in Brazil
Kristin Wintersteen, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Project: The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem
Past Fellows and Affiliates by Year
- 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
