Past Symposia
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2025-2026 |
Indigenous Crossings |
Pending | Rani-Henrik Andersson, Boyd Cothran, Joshua L. Reid, and Samuel Truett, eds. | Co-sponsored with The Newberry Library in Chicago, with support from the University of New Mexico, the University of Washington, and Princeton University |
2024-2025 |
West of the White House |
Pending | Cecily Zander, Jeff Engel, and Andrew Graybill, eds. |
Co-sponsored with SMU's Center for Presidential History with support from Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute. |
2023-2024 |
Contested Commemorations: Public Memory in the South and West |
Pending | Ari Kelman and Thavolia Glymph, eds. | A joint symposium with the Autry Museum of American Art and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
2022-2023 |
Religion in the North American West |
Pending | Brandi Denison and Brett Hendrickson, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis |
2021-2022 |
Campuses and Colonialism |
Pending | Stephen Kantrowitz, Malinda Maynor Lowery, and Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, eds. | Co-sponsored with Emory University |
2019-2020 |
Global Environmental Borderlands in the Age of Empire |
Pending | Robert Batchelor, David Bello, and Ryan Jones, eds. | |
2018-2019 |
Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization |
University of Oklahoma Press, 2022 |
Kent Blansett, Cathleen Cahill, and Andrew Needham, eds. |
Co-sponsored with New York University |
2017-2018 |
Understanding Global Migration |
Stanford University Press, 2022 |
Neil Foley and James Hollifield, eds. |
Co-sponsored with SMU's John G. Tower Center for Political Studies |
2016-2017 |
Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West
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University Press of Kansas, 2018 |
Pablo Mitchell and Katrina Jagodinsky, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, History Dept and Center for Great Plains Studies |
Fall 2016 |
Why Standing Rock Matters: Can Oil and Water Mix? |
Public Forum |
Farina King, Neil Foley, Steve Denson, Ruth Ann Elmore, co-organizers |
With support from SMU's Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences, Cox School of Business, Clements Dept of History, Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute, and the Center for Presidential History |
2015-2016 |
These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence Along the U.S.-Mexican Border |
The David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History with the University of North Carolina Press, 2022 |
Andrew R. Torget and Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle, eds. |
In partnership with Instituto Mora of Mexico City, with support from SMU’s Embrey Human Rights Program and the Dallas Latino Cultural Center |
2014-2015 |
Food Across Borders |
Rutgers University Press, 2017 |
Melanie DuPuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell, eds. |
Co-sponsored with Arizona State University, Comparative Border Studies Program |
2013-2014 |
Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States |
University of California Press, February 2015. |
Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Autry Museum of the American West |
2012-2013 |
Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America & its Borderlands
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SAR Press, 2015 |
James F. Brooks and Bonnie Martin, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe |
2011-2012 |
Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarceration, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance
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University of North Carolina Press, 2019 |
Robert T. Chase, ed. |
Co-sponsored with the University of Colorado, Center of the American West |
2010-2011 |
The Contested Spaces of Early America
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 |
Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the University of Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early American Studies |
2009-2010 |
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
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University of California Press, 2012 |
David Wallace Adams and Crista Deluzio, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the University of New Mexico, Center for the Southwest, and the Autry Museum of the American West |
2008-2009 |
Sunbelt Rising
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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 |
Darren Dochuk and Michelle Nickerson, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West |
2007-2008 |
Indians & Energy:
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SAR Press, 2010 |
Brian Frehner and Sherry L. Smith, eds. |
Co-sponsored with the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe |
2006-2007 |
Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories
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Duke University Press, 2010 |
Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds. |
Co-sponsored with Simon Fraser University, Dept of History |
2005-2006 |
Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
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Duke University Press, 2009 |
Alexis McCrossen, ed. |
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2004-2005 |
The Political Culture of the New West
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University Press of Kansas, 2008 |
Jeff Roche, ed. |
With support from SMU’s John G. Tower Center for Political Studies |
2003-2004 |
Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua and Chicana Histories
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University of Illinois Press, 2008 |
John R. Chavez and Vicki Ruiz, eds. |
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2002 |
Continental Crossroads:
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Duke University Press, 2004 |
Samuel Truett and Elliott Young, eds. |
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2001-2002 |
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on New Spain's North American Frontiers
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University of New Mexico Press, 2005 |
Frank de la Teja and Ross Frank, eds. |
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2000-2001 |
The Future of the Southern Plains |
University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 |
Sherry L. Smith, ed. |
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2000 |
Sacred Space: Man and the Divine in Mexico, Central American, and the Southwestern United States |
Forthcoming | With essays by David J. Weber, Mike Adler, David Freidel, James Early, and William Taylor | Co-sponsored with SMU's Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, the Dallas Historical Society, and the Mexican Institute for International Cooperation, including photo exhibit at Dallas Fair Park by photographer Carolyn Brown. |
1999-2000 |
The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture
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University of New Mexico Press, 2004 |
Hal Rothman, ed. |
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1999 |
Zaldívar and the Cattle of Cíbola: Vicente de Zaldívar’s Expedition to the Buffalo Plains in 1598, the Spanish Texts
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Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 1999 |
Jerry R. Craddock, ed., and John H.R. Polt, trans. |
Co-sponsored with UC-Berkeley, Research Center for Romance Studies |
1998 |
Confluent Passions: Eanger Irving Couse's Collection of Historic Pueblo Pottery & Related Photographic Studies for Paintings
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Clements Center for Southwest Studies, the Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, 1998 |
Philip Van Keuren, ed. |
Co-sponsored with SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, Pollock Gallery |
1996 |
The American Southwest -- Old Horizons, New Vistas
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The Inaugural 1996 Annual Public Symposium |
Opening Remarks: Patricia Limerick |
Inaugural symposium featuring a special exhibit of the works of the Native American artist John Nieto |
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