Past Fellows

Fellowships

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Clements 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 current affiliation, manuscript or book title, and press, if under contract or published.

2023-2024
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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		University of Oklahoma Press, 2025
2021-2022
	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 ��ҽ�Border*	Under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press
	The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Executive Director, Old Santa Fe Association and NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine	Secretsharers: Indigenous Knowledge and the Politics of Ethnographic Documentation, 1880-1930
	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*
	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
	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
	The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, Colorado College		Many Wests Series, University of Nebraska Press, 2023
	The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Senior Postdoctoral Researcher with the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University	The Revolver Must Go	Forthcoming with Yale University Press
	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
	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		Basic Books, 2022
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison		Oxford Legal History, Oxford University Press, 2024
	The Summerlee/Summerfield Roberts Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, University of Texas-Dallas		David J. Weber Series for New Borderlands History, the University of North Carolina Press, 2024
2018-2019
	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
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Assistant Professor of History, University of ��ҽ�California	Borderland Visualities: Technologies of Affixing and the Production of the Nineteenth-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of History, John Hopkins University		Yale University Press, August 2019
	The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	History Instructor, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy		Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
	The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History	Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas		Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University		David J. Weber Series for New Borderlands History, the University of North Carolina Press, 2019
	The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology, University of Oklahoma		University Press of Kansas, 2018
	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.
	The Summerlee Fellow for the Study of Texas History	Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University		New Directions in ��ҽ�Studies Series with the University of North Carolina Press, 2020
2015-2016
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of History, University of Oklahoma and editor, Western Historical Quarterly		W.W. Norton, 2022
	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
	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
	The Summerlee Fellowship in Texas History	Senior Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program, Boston University		University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, Oklahoma State University		Critical Indigeneities Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2019
	The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio		Yale University Press, 2019
	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
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Conservationist and writer	(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		Harvard University Press, 2019
	The Summerlee Fellowship 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		Justice, Power, and Politics Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2016
	The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University		New Directions in Native American Studies Series, University of Oklahoma Press, 2016
2012-2013
	The David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, University of Texas-Arlington		America in the Nineteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
	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		Basic Books, 2019
	The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor History, University of Rochester		Politics and Culture in Modern America Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
	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*
	The Summerlee Fellowship in Texas History	Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona		American Crossroads Series, University of California Press, 2015
2011-2012
	The Summerlee Fellowship 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*
	The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Lincoln		The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2016
	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		University of North Carolina Press, December 2020
	The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of American Art, Syracuse University		Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West, University of Oklahoma Press, 2015
	The Inaugural David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of History, University of North Texas		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		University of Texas Press, 2013
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	University Lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland		The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2014
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Department, Harvard University		University of Arizona Press, 2012
	The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History	Assistant Professor & Director, Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University at San Marcos		University of Texas Press, 2013
	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*
	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		University of North Carolina Press, 2011
	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*
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley		Harvard University Press, 2013
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor in American History, University of Nottingham, U.K.		University of Oklahoma Press, 2015
2008-2009
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, State University of New York-Stony Brook		Justice, Power, and Politics Series, University of North Carolina Press, 2020
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma		The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2014
	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		University of Oklahoma Press, 2020
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington		University of North Carolina Press, 2014
	The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History	Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University		David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, 2015
2007-2008
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of History, Central Washington University		The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2010
	The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History	United States Foreign Service in Public Diplomacy		New York University Press, 2009
	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*
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, Goshen College		University of North Carolina Press, 2012
2006-2007
	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		Oxford University Press, 2017
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, New York University		Politics and Society in 20th Century America Series, Princeton University Press, 2014
	The Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History	Associate Vice Provost, University of Texas-San Antonio Institute of Texan Cultures		University of North Carolina Press, 2010
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill		Latin American Landscapes Series, University of Arizona Press, 2022
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Regents Professor of Landscape Architecture emeritus, University of New Mexico.		Trinity University Press, 2011
2005-2006
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor Emeritus of Education and History, Cleveland State University		University Press of Kansas, 2016
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Preston Hotchkis Chair and Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley		The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2008
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of History, Northern Arizona University		University of Texas Press, 2007; reprint with a foreword by Patricia Limerick Nelson, 2020
2004-2005
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Assistant Professor of Instruction, Human Dimensions of Organizations, University of Texas		University of New Mexico Press, 2008
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City		University of Nebraska Press, 2011
ANDREW GRAYBILL	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies and Professor of History, ��ҽ�Methodist University		University of Nebraska Press, 2007
	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
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, University of Missouri, St. Louis		University of North Carolina Press, 2011
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of History at Portland State University and Editor, Pacific Historical Review		University of North Carolina Press, 2011
	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		SAR Press, 2006
2002-2003
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of American Studies, St. Louis University		University Press of Kansas, May 2008
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History, Utah State University and Coeditor, Western Historical Quarterly		University Press of Kansas, 2005
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Professor of American Religious History, Yale Divinity School		University of North Carolina Press, 2009
2001-2002
	The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History	Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at San Antonio		Duke University Press, 2013
	The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History	Director, Historias, LLC \| Compelling Stories		University of New Mexico Press, 2007
	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 Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2008
	Fulbright Scholar	Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Modern History and Mediterranean Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary	*Anglo-Americans in Texas, 1821-1845*
2000-2001
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Førsteamanuensis/Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences		University of New Mexico Press, 2004
	The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History	Associate Professor of History, University of Houston		University of North Carolina Press, 2008
	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		Weyerhaeuser Environmental Series, University of Washington Press, 2009
1999-2000
	The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History	Associate Professor of History, Duke University		University of North Carolina Press, 2007
	The Carl B. and Florence E. King Fellow in Southwest History	Conservationist and writer		Island Press, 2001
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Research Scientist, Fiske Center for Archaeological Research, University of Massachusetts		University of Arizona Press, 2005
1998-1999
	The Summerfield-Roberts Fellow in Texas History	Professor of History, James Madison University.	*The Making of a ��ҽ�Sawmill World: Race, Class, and Rural Transformation in the Piney Woods of East Texas, 1830-1930*
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge		University of Arizona Press, 2001
1997-1998
	The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History	Associate Professor of History, Carleton University		University of Virginia Press, 2002
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	Associate Professor of History & Director, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico		The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 2006
1996-1997
	The Summerlee Fellow in Texas History	Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair of History, Texas Christian University		The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, 1999. Reprint from the Texas State Historical Association, 2016.
	The Bill & Rita Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America	John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston		��ҽ�Press, 2000

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