Past Fellows

BIG Dallas signClements Center Research Fellowships provide senior or junior scholars with an essential element for producing successful books, and that is time.

Below is a list of each fellowship year, the fellow's name, the fellowship name, their institutional affiliation*, manuscript or book title, and press, if under contract or published. 

*Affiliations may not be up to date.

 

 

2025 - 2026
Leonard V. Smith
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, Oberlin College

Liberalism and Law in Texas and French Algeria in the Nineteenth Century

  
Adrian V. Chavana
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University

Becoming Gente de Razon: The San Antonio Mission Indians and their Descendants

  
Cori L. Simon
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma

Shadowland: Indian Territory's Contested Past and Uncertain Future, 1800-1910

  
Cristina Urias-Espinoza
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, Arkansas State University, Campus Queretaro

The Mexican West: Land Speculation and the U.S. Colonization of Northwest Mexico, 1844-1936

  

2024 - 2025
Toni Ann Trevino
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, University of North Texas

San Antonio After Sundown: The War on Drugs & Envisioning Rehabilitation in Postwar Mexican Neighborhoods

  
Andrew Busch
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Associate Professor, Coastal Carolina University

High Tech Texas: Public Institutions and Political Economy in the Lone Star State

Under contract with UT Press
Alyssa Quintanilla
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of Art History and American Studies, William & Mary

Markers, Monuments, and Memorials in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
Kevan Malone
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Miami

Borderline Unsustainable: Urbanization and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary

  

2023 - 2024
Jennifer Holland
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

L.R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor of US History, University of Oklahoma

Straightening Out: A History of Anti-Queer Politics in Rural America

Under contract with Basic Books
Max Flomen
The Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History

Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University

Beyond Mountains: Marronage & Revolution in the Borderlands, 1500-1850

Under contract with University of Nebraska Press
Laura Hooton
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University

Black Baja: Little Liberia and the Fight Against White Supremacy

Under contract with University of Oklahoma Press
Khalil Anthony Johnson
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Wesleyan University

Schooled: An Unsettling History of American Education

Under contract with University of North Carolina Press

2022 - 2023
Katherine Bynum
The Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History

Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University

Civil Rights in the ‘City of Hate’: Grassroots Organizing Against Police Brutality in Dallas

Under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press
Tiffany Gonzalez
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, University of Kansas

Representation of Change: How Chicanas Reshaped the American Political Process in the Late Twentieth Century

Under contract in the Latinx Histories Series, University of North Carolina Press
Nicholas Myers
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Historian for the National Trails Office, National Park Service, Santa Fe

The Wayward Edge: Autonomy and State-formation in Greater Apachería, 1765-1896
Michael Phillips
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Adjunct Professor of History, Texas A&M-Commerce

The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas (with Betsy Friaf)

University of Oklahoma Press, 2025

2021 - 2022
Maggie Elmore
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Assistant Professor of History, Baylor University

Unholy Border: How the United States used the Catholic Church to Regulate its Southern Border

Under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press
Adam F. Johnson
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

District 4 Commissioner, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

Secretsharers: Indigenous Knowledge and the Politics of Ethnographic Documentation, 1880-1930
Christina Villarreal
The Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow for the Study of Texas History

Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas-El Paso

Resisting Colonial Subjugation: Sanctuary, Asylum, and Refuge in the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1714-1803
Priscilla Solis Ybarra
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Associate Professor of Latinx Literature, University of North Texas

In the Light of Los Lunas: The Mexican American Leopolds, Reckoning with Environmentalism’s White Supremacy, and Settler Colonial Violence

2020 - 2021
Sean Harvey
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 Upper School Instructor of History, Phoenix Country Day Day Assembly Lines: Maquiladoras and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1932—1992
Amy Kohout
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Colorado College Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers Many Wests Series, University of Nebraska Press, 2023
Brennan Gardner Rivas
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU The Revolver Must Go: The Rise and Fall of a Gun Control Movement in Texas Under contract with Yale University Press
Tatiana Seijas
The Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University First Routes: Indigenous Commerce in Early North America

2019 - 2020
Sam Haynes
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History and Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, University of Texas-Arlington Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas Basic Books, 2022
Natalie Mendoza
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado-Boulder The Good Neighbor at Home: Mexican American Identity and Civil Rights During World War II Under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press
Allison Powers Useche
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law Oxford Legal History, Oxford University Press, 2024
Eric Schlereth
The Summerlee/Summerfield Roberts Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, University of Texas-Dallas Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America David J. Weber Series for New Borderlands History, the University of North Carolina Press, 2024

2018 - 2019
Tsianina Lomawaima
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

Professor, Department of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, retired

 The Land of the Free: Forging U.S. Citizens, Subjects, and Wards in the Early 20th Century
Alessandra Link
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Instructor, Louisville Collegiate School The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the U.S. West, 1853–1924 Forthcoming with Oxford University Press
Celeste R. Menchaca
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern California Borderland Visualities: Technologies of Affixing and the Production of the Nineteenth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 
Mary E. Mendoza
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University Unnatural Border: Race and Environment at the U.S.- Mexico Divide

2017 - 2018
Sarah Pearsall
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History, John Hopkins University Polygamy: An Early American History Yale University Press, August 2019
Thomas Richards, Jr.
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 History Instructor, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Sarah K.M. Rodriguez
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas One National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1820-1867 Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
Aimee Villarreal
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Texas State University Sanctuaryscapes in the New Mexico Borderlands Forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press

2016 - 2017
Maurice Crandall
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912 David J. Weber Series for New Borderlands History, the University of North Carolina Press, 2019
Farina King
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology, University of Oklahoma The Earth Memory Compass: DineĢ Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century University Press of Kansas, 2018
Eric Meeks
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History, Northern Arizona University The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Transnational History Under contract Yale University Press.
Uzma Quraishi
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History 
 Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War New Directions in Southern Studies Series with the University of North Carolina Press, 2020

2015 - 2016
Bryant Etheridge
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Military Institute Making a Workforce, Unmaking a Working Class: The Creation of a Human Capital Society in Houston, 1900-1980
Anne Hyde
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History, University of Oklahoma and editor, Western Historical Quarterly Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West W.W. Norton, 2022
Jaime Javier Rodriguez
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of English, University of North Texas Borders of Time-Space: The Global Imaginary in South Texas Literature, a Study of Mexican-American Writing in the Early 20th Century
David Dorado Romo
The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 Writer, Museum Curator, Historian, Cultural Activist Axis & Allied Propaganda and Intelligence Along the US-Mexico Border: A Global Microhistory of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, 1933-1945

2014 - 2015
Gavin Benke
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
 Senior Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program, Boston University Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018
Sami Lakomaki
Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher
 University Lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland Indigenous Lands, Colonial Empires, and Nation-States: Shawnee and Sámi Spaces and Borders in North America and Fennoscandia, 1500–1900
Douglas K. Miller
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Oklahoma State University Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century Critical Indigeneities Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2019
Andrew Offenburger
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 Yale University Press, 2019
Rachel St. John
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, University of California-Davis The Imagined States of America: The Unmanifest History of Nineteenth-century North America Under contract with Harvard University Press

2013 - 2014
Neel Baumgardner
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Lecturer in History, University of Texas at San Antonio Bordering North America: Constructing Wilderness Along the Periphery of Canada, Mexico, and the United States
William deBuys
The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Conservationist and Writer First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest (with David. J. Weber) Yale University Press, 2017
Benjamin Francis-Fallon
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History Harvard University Press, 2019
Max Krochmal
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
 Professor of U.S. History and the Czech Republic Endowed Professor and Director of Justice Studies at the University of New Orleans Blue Texas: The Making of the Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era Justice, Power, and Politics Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2016
Julie L. Reed
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907 New Directions in Native American Studies Series, University of Oklahoma Press, 2016

2012 - 2013
Paul Conrad
The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, University of Texas-Arlington The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival America in the Nineteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
Darren Dochuk
The Inaugural Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Andrew V. Tackes College Professor of History, University of Notre Dame Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America Basic Books, 2019
Ruben Flores
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor History, University of Rochester Backroads Pragmatists
Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States		 Politics and Culture in Modern America Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Paula Lupkin
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of Art History, University of North Texas The Great Southwest: Trade, Territory, and Regional Architecture
Tyina Steptoe
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
 Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City American Crossroads Series, University of California Press, 2015

2011 - 2012
Joseph Abel
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
 Research Historian at Baltimore Museum of Industry Sunbelt Civil Rights: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Aircraft Manufacturing Industry of Texas, 1940-1980
Katrina Jagodinsky
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women in Imperial Courts, 1853-1912 The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2016
Susan Lee Johnson
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West, University of Nevada-Las Vegas Writing Kit Carson:Fallen Heroes in a Changing West University of North Carolina Press, December 2020
Sascha Scott
The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of American Art, Syracuse University A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West, University of Oklahoma Press, 2015
Andrew J.Torget
The Inaugural David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History, University of North Texas Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, 2015

2010 - 2011
Daniel Arreola
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Arizona State University, retired Postcards from the Río Bravo Border: Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s-1950s University of Texas Press, 2013
Sami Lakomaki
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 University Lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland Gathering Together: The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870 The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2014
Matthew Liebmann
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Department, Harvard University Revolt: An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico University of Arizona Press, 2012
Jason Mellard
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 Assistant Professor & Director, Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University at San Marcos Progressive Country: How the 1970s Transformed the Texas in Popular Culture University of Texas Press, 2013
Elizabeth Hayes Turner
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 University Distinguished Professor of History, University of North Texas, retired Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration

2009 - 2010
Norwood Andrews
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 Independent Scholar Healing Professions in Killing States: The Death Penalty, Medicine, and Society in Britain and Texas
Cathleen Cahill
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor in Middle-American History
Pennsylvania State University		 Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Sarah Cornell
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Senior Lecturer of History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Americans in the U.S. South and Mexico: A Transnational History of Race, Slavery, and Freedom, 1810-1925
Raúl Coronado
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture Harvard University Press, 2013
Stephanie Lewthwaite
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor in American History, University of Nottingham, U.K. A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico University of Oklahoma Press, 2015

2008 - 2009
Robert T. Chase
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, State University of New York-Stony Brook We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoner's Rights in Postwar America Justice, Power, and Politics Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Raphael B. Folsom
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2014
Miguel Ángel González Quiroga
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor, Colegio de Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830-1880 University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
David E. Narrett
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803 University of North Carolina Press, 2014
John W. Weber
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, 2015

2007 - 2008
Daniel Herman
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History, Central Washington University Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2010
Jacqueline Moore
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 United States Foreign Service in Public Diplomacy Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865 to 1900 New York University Press, 2009
Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies, Texas State University Captivity and Adoption Among the Comanche Indians, 1700-1875
Julia María Schiavone Camacho
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Goshen College Chinese Mexicans:  Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 University of North Carolina Press, 2012

2006 - 2007
S. Deborah Kang
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History and John L. Nau III Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 Oxford University Press, 2017
Andrew Needham
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, New York University Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest Politics and Society in 20th Century America Series, Princeton University Press, 2014
Monica Perales
The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History
 Associate Vice Provost, University of Texas-San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Cynthia Radding
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Bountiful Deserts: Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain Latin American Landscapes Series, University of Arizona Press, 2022
Chris Wilson
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Regents Professor of Landscape Architecture emeritus, University of New Mexico. The Plazas of New Mexico Trinity University Press, 2011

2005 - 2006
David Wallace Adams
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor Emeritus of Education and History, Cleveland State University Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890–1990 University Press of Kansas, 2016
Brian DeLay
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Preston Hotchkis Chair and Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.- Mexican War The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2008
Eric Meeks
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History, Northern Arizona University Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona University of Texas Press, 2007; reprint with a foreword by Patricia Limerick Nelson, 2020

2004 - 2005
Laura Hernández-Ehrisman
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Assistant Professor of Instruction, Human Dimensions of Organizations, University of Texas Inventing the Fiesta City: Heritage and Carnival in San Antonio University of New Mexico Press, 2008
Brian Frehner
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920 University of Nebraska Press, 2011
Andrew R. Graybill
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History, Texas Christian University Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Henry Totanes
Fulbright Fellow
 Associate Professor of History at Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines A Comparative Study of Franciscan Missions in the American Southwest and the Diocese of Nueva Caceres in Kabikolan, Philippines

2003 - 2004
Deborah Cohen
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri, St. Louis Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Marc Rodriguez
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of History at Portland State University and Editor, Pacific Historical Review The Tejano Diaspora:  Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Sylvia Rodríguez
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor emeritus of Anthropology and Director of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, University of New Mexico Acequia: Water-sharing, Sanctity and Place in Hispanic New Mexico SAR Press, 2006

2002 - 2003
Flannery Burke
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of American Studies, St. Louis University From Greenwich Village to Taos:  Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan’s University Press of Kansas, May 2008
Colleen O'Neill
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History, Utah State University and Coeditor, Western Historical Quarterly Working the Navajo Way:  Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century University Press of Kansas, 2005
Tisa Wenger
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Professor of American Religious History, Yale Divinity School We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom University of North Carolina Press, 2009

2001 - 2002
Omar Valerio-Jiménez
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
 Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at San Antonio River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands Duke University Press, 2013
Martina Will de Chaparro
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History
 Independent Scholar Death and Dying in New Mexico University of New Mexico Press, 2007
Pekka Hämäläinen
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Rhodes Professor of History and Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, U.K. The Comanche Empire

The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2008
Andrea Kökény
Fulbright Scholar
 Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Modern History and Mediterranean Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary Anglo-Americans in Texas, 1821-1845

2000 - 2001
Martin Padget
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Førsteamanuensis/Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840 -1935 University of New Mexico Press, 2004
Raúl A.Ramos
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
 Associate Professor of History, University of Houston Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861 University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Marsha Weisiger
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History
 Rocky and Julie Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History, Department of History, University of Oregon Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series, University of Washington Press, 2009

1999 - 2000
Juliana Barr
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
 Associate Professor of History, Duke University Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands University of North Carolina Press, 2007
William deBuys
The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History
 Conservationist and Writer Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell Island Press, 2001
Heather Trigg
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Research Scientist, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts From Household to Empire:  Society and Economy in Early Colonial New Mexico University of Arizona Press, 2005

1998 - 1999
Steven Reich
The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History
 Professor of History, James Madison University. The Making of a Southern Sawmill World: Race, Class, and Rural Transformation in the Piney Woods of East Texas, 1830-1930
James Snead
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology University of Arizona Press, 2001

1997 - 1998
James Miller
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
 Associate Professor of History, Carleton University South by Southwest: Planter Emigration and Identity in the Slave South University of Virginia Press, 2002
Samuel Truett
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 Associate Professor of History & Director, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2006

1996 - 1997
Gregg Cantrell
The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History
 Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair of History, Texas Christian University, retired Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 1999. Reprint from the Texas State Historical Association, 2016.
Nancy Beck Young
The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
 John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream SMU Press, 2000