Research Fellowships

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies welcomes applications for four residential research fellowships. Fellowships are normally for a full academic year but we also welcome applications from scholars interested in a half-year fellowship. Competition is open to individuals in any field in the humanities or social sciences doing research on Southwestern America or the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The fellowships are designed to provide time for senior or junior scholars to bring book-length manuscripts to completion. One of the four fellowships, funded by the generosity of the Summerlee Foundation, supports work on Texas history. The fellowships cannot be used to complete a dissertation.

Fellows will be expected to spend the 2008-2009 academic year or single semester at SMU and to participate in Clements Center activities. Each fellow will receive the support of the Center and access to the extraordinary holdings of the DeGolyer Library. Full-year fellowships carry a stipend of $37,000, benefits where appropriate, a $2,000 allowance for research and travel expenses, and a publication subvention. Single-semester fellowships will receive a $18,500 stipend, benefits where appropriate, a $1,000 research allowance, and a publication subvention. Full-year fellows have the option of teaching one course during the duration of the fellowship for an additional stipend.

Applicants should send a copy of their curriculum vita, a description of their research project, and a sample chapter or extract (if the sample is from a dissertation, please include the introduction), indicate if they are applying for a full-year or single-semester fellowship. Applicants must arrange to have letters of reference sent from three persons who can assess the significance of the work and the ability of the scholar to carry it out.

Send applications by regular mail to:

David J. Weber, Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750176
Dallas TX 75275-0176

Send applications by express mail to:

David J. Weber, Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
3225 University Drive, Room 356
Dallas, TX 75205

Applications must be received by January 15, 2008.

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The awards will be announced on February 25, 2008. This page contains all the information necessary to complete the application process. If you have questions, please call (214) 768-3684 or send an email to swcenter@smu.edu.

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Announcing the Clements Center Research Fellowships
for 2008-2009

ROBERT T. CHASE
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America Ph.D. expected August 2008 in United States History, University of Maryland
Currently Dissertation Fellow at Vanderbilt University.
Civil Rights on the Cell Block:
Race, Reform, and Punishment in Texas Prisons and the Nation, 1945-1990

RAPHAEL B. FOLSOM
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America Ph.D. in Latin American History, Yale University, December 2007 with Distinction
Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma.
This Weeping Land:
The Making, Destruction, and Rebirth of the Yaqui Mission Towns, 1533-1810

MIGUEL ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZ QUIROGA
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America M.A. in Latin American History, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, 1977
Professor, Colegio de Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
Conflict, Cooperation and Coexistence
between Anglos and Mexicans in the Rio Grande Region: A Nineteenth Century Study

DAVID E. NARRETT
The Bill & Rita Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America Ph.D.in History, Cornell University, 1981
Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington.
Frontiers of Adventurism and Intrigue:
The West Florida, Louisiana, and Texas-Mexican Borderlands, 1763-1823

JOHN W. WEBER
The Summerlee Foundation Research Fellow for the Study of Texas History
Ph.D. expected 2008 in History, College of William and Mary
Adjunct Instructor, College of William and Mary.
The Shadow of the Revolution:
South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the Evolution of
Modern American Labor Relations

Past Recipients of Clements Center Research Fellowships

*2007-2008*

DANIEL HERMAN The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. Associate Professor of History, Central Washington University. “Under the Tonto Rim: Honor, Conscience, and Culture in the West, 1880-1930.”

JACQUELINE MOORE The Summerlee Foundation Research Fellow for the Study of Texas History. Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Maryland, 1994. Professor of History, Austin College. “Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Nineteenth Century Masculinity and Class on the Texas Frontier”, forthcoming New York University Press.

JOAQUÍN RIVAYA-MARTÍNEZ The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., Anthropology, UCLA, 2006. Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, Texas State University. “Captivity and Adoption Among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875.”

JULIA MARÍA SCHIAVONE CAMACHO The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., Borderlands History, University of Texas, El Paso, 2006. Assistant Professor of History, UTEP. “Between Homelands: The Expulsion of Chinese Mexican Families from Mexico to China and Repatriation to Mexico, 1931-1962.”

*2006-2007*

S. DEBORAH KANG The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., American History, 2005; M.A. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Adjunct, University of California, Berkeley. “The Legal Construction of the Borderlands: The INS, Immigration Law, and Immigrant Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border.”

ANDREW NEEDHAM The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006. Assistant Professor of History, New York University. “Power Lines: Urban Space, Energy Development, and the Making of the Modern Southwest, 1945-1975.”

MONICA PERALES The Summerlee Foundation Research Fellow for the Study of Texas History. Ph.D., History, Stanford, 2004. Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston. “Smeltertown: A Biography of a Mexican American Community, 1882-1973.”

CYNTHIA RADDING The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., History, University of California San Diego, 1990. Director, Latin American & Iberian Institute, Professor, History, Latin American/Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico. "In the Shadow of Empire: Ecology, History, and Culture in Two Colonial Frontiers."

CHRIS WILSON The Bill & Rita Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. M.A., Art History and Architectural History, University of New Mexico, 1981. J.B. Jackson Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico. "On Foot: The Life, Death and Rebirth of Southwest Urbanism."

*2005-2006*

DAVID ADAMS Professor Emeritus of Education and History, Cleveland State University, specializing in Native American History, History of the West, and History of Education. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ed.D. in Social Studies Education, Indiana University and M.A. in History, Northeastern Illinois University. Coming of Age on the Southwest Frontier: A Tri-Cultural History, 1890-1990.

BRIAN DELAY Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., Harvard University, 2004, The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War, Yale University Press, September 2008.

ERIC MEEKS Assistant Professor of History at Northern Arizona University. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America.
Ph.D. (2001) and M.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin.
Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona University of Texas Press, 2007.

*2004-2005*

LAURA HERNÁNDEZ-EHRISMAN, The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies form the University of Texas at Austin. Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio, University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

BRIAN FREHNER, Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D. in History from the University of Oklahoma and M.A. in History from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "From Creekology to Geology: Finding and Conserving Oil on the Southern Plains, 1820-1930."

ANDREW GRAYBILL, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. M.A. and Ph.D. (2003) in History from Princeton University, Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910, University of Nebraska Press and University of Calgary Press, 2007.

HENRY TOTANES, Associate Professor of History at Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines. Fulbright Fellow. “A Comparative Study of Franciscan Missions in the American Southwest and the Diocese of Nueva Caceres in Kabikolan, Philippines.”

*2003-2004*

DEBORAH COHEN, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., History, University of Chicago. “Bordering Modernities: Race, Masculinity, and the Cultural Politics of Mexico - U.S. Migration.”

MARC RODRIGUEZ, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., United States History, Northwestern University, and J.D., University of Wisconsin School of Law. The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Politics in the Era of the U.S.-Mexican War, Yale University Press forthcoming.

SYLVIA RODRÍGUEZ, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D., Anthropology and Psychology, Stanford University. Acequia: Water-sharing, Sanctity and Place in Hispanic New Mexico, SAR Press, 2006.

*2002-2003*

FLANNERY BURKE, Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D. in American History, University of Wisconsin, From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s, University Press of Kansas, May 2008.

COLLEEN O'NEILL, Associate Professor, Department of History, Utah State University and Associate Editor, Western Historical Quarterly. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D. in American History, Rutgers University, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century, book forthcoming University Press of Kansas, 2005. Winner of the 2006 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award for best historical publication (by an individual) from the Historical Society of New Mexico.

TISA WENGER, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University. The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Princeton, Savage Debauchery or Sacred Communion? Religion and the Primitive in the Pueblo Dance Controversy, University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.

*2001-2002*

OMAR VALERIO-JIMÉNEZ, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa. The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History. Ph.D. in American History, University of California at Los Angeles, Rio Grande Crossings: Identity and Nation in the Mexico-Texas Borderlands, 1749-1890, Duke University Press, forthcoming.

MARTINA WILL DE CHAPARRO, Assistant Professor, Texas Women's University. The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History. Ph.D. in Latin American History, University of New Mexico, Death and Dying in New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara. The Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America. Ph.D. in General History, University of Helsinki, Finland, The Comanche Empire, Yale University Press, May 2008.

ANDREA KÖKÉNY, Fulbright Fellow. Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Modern History and Mediterranean Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. Ph.D. in History, University of Szeged, Hungary. "Anglo-Americans in Texas, 1821-1845."

*2000-2001*

MARTIN PADGET, Lecturer, University of Wales. The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies. Ph.D. in English and American Literature, University of California, San Diego, Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840 -1935, University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Named a Top Pick for 2004 in the Southwest Books of the Year from the Tucson-Pima County Public Library.

RAÚL A. RAMOS, Assistant Professor, University of Houston. The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History. Ph.D. in American History, Yale University, Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861, University of North Carolina Press, April 2008.

MARSHA WEISIGER, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University. The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History. Ph.D. in American History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sheep Dreams: Environment, Identity, and Gender in Navajo Country, University of Washington Press, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series, forthcoming.

*1999-2000*

JULIANA BARR, Assistant Professor, University of Florida at Gainesville. The Summerfield Roberts Fellowship in Texas History. Ph.D. in American History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

WILLIAM deBUYS, independent scholar and environmental consultant. The Carl B. and Florence E. King Senior Fellow in Southwest History. Ph.D. in American Civilization, University of Texas. Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell, Island Press, 2001. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

HEATHER TRIGG, Center Scientist in Environmental Archaeology, University of Massachusetts, Boston. The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies. Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Michigan, From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico, University of Arizona Press, 2005. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

*1998-1999*

STEVEN REICH, Assistant Professor, James Madison University. The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History. Ph.D. in American History, Northwestern University, "The Making of a Southern Sawmill World: Race, Class, and Rural Transformation in the Piney Woods of East Texas, 1830-1930."

JAMES E. SNEAD, Assistant Professor, George Mason University. The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies. Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology, The University of Arizona Press, 2001. Paperback edition, 2004. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

1997-1998*

JAMES MILLER, Assistant Professor, Carleton University. The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History. Ph.D. in American History, Emory University. South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South, University of Virginia Press, 2002. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

SAM TRUETT, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico. The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies. Ph.D. in Western U.S. and Environmental History, Yale University, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Yale University Press, 2006. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

*1996-1997*

GREGG CANTRELL, Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair of History, Texas Christian University. The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History. Ph.D. in American History, Texas A&M University. Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, Yale University Press, 1999. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Winner of the 1999 Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award for Outstanding Research on a Texas History Topic. Winner of the best book on Texas in 1999 by the Philosophical Society of Texas. Received a Citation of Merit from the Texas Historical Foundation. Co-winner of the 1999 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award given by the Texas Historical Commission. Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic title for 2000. Winner of the Presidio La Bahia Award given by The Sons of the Republic of Texas. Winner of the 2000 Kate Broocks Bates Award sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association. Winner of the 1999 Summerfield G. Roberts Award sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of Texas. Winner of the 2000 Catherine Munson Foster Memorial Award for Literature given by the Brazoria County Historical Museum. Winner of the 2001 Ottis Lock Best Book Award sponsored by the East Texas Historical Association. Won an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. Co-winner of the 1999 T. R. Fehrenback Book Award. Received a Texas Historical Foundation Citation of Merit.

NANCY BECK YOUNG, Professor, University of Houston. The Clements Fellow in Southwest Studies. Ph.D. in American History, University of Texas. Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream, SMU Press, a member of the Texas A & M University Press Consortium, 2000. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Winner of the D.B. Hardeman Prize, funded by a grant from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for outstanding book on Congress.

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Books written by Clements Center Fellows published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the
Texas Borderlands
by Juliana Barr

From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at
Mabel Dodge Luhan's
by Flannery Burke

Stephen F. Austin,
Empresario of Texas
by Gregg Cantrell

Seeing Things Whole:
The Essential John Wesley Powell
by William DeBuys

War of a Thousand Deserts:
Indian Raids and the US-Mexican War
by Brian Delay

Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910
by Andrew Graybill

The Comanche Empire
by Pekka Hämäläinen

Inventing the Fiesta City:
Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio
by Laura Hernandez-Ehrisman

Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona
by Eric Meeks

South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South
by James Miller

Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
by Colleen O'Neil

Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935
by Martin Padget

Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
by Raúl Ramos

Acequia: Water-Sharing,
Sanctity and Place
by Sylvia Rodriquez

Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology
by James E. Snead,
now republished in paperback!

From Household to Empire: Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico
by Heather B. Trigg

Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the US-Mexican Borderlands
by Sam Truett,
now republished in paperback!

Death and Dying in New Mexico
by Martina Will de Chaparro

Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream
by Nancy Beck Young