Current Fellows

Clements Center for Southwest Studies Fellows for 2026-2027

 

Daniel Herman

Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1995
Professor of History, Central Washington University
“Legacy of Reform: The Inner West and American Politics, 1890-1988”

 

Chelsea Ball 

Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2021
Assistant Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies, University of Central Oklahoma
“West of Feminism: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment in the American West”

 

Jian Gao

Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2024
Presidential Post Doctoral Scholar, Arizona State University
“Journeys of Longing and Belonging: Migration and the Modern Chinese Mexico”

 

Carlos Parra

Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of Southern California, 2021
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
“Televising Latinidad: A History of Spanish-Language TV in Latino Southern California, 1962-2012”