David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History

In honor and memory of the work of the late David J. Weber, the Clements Center is pleased to announce a new book series in collaboration with the which explores boundaries and borderlands.  The series focuses on contested boundaries and the intercultural dynamics surrounding them, from the pre-contact era to the present, and includes projects across a wide range of time and space, within North America and beyond, including the Atlantic and Pacific world. Books in the series use innovative methods and concepts to examine, analyze, and interpret both sets of North American border regions as well as other areas connected to processes of making, crossing, and breaking borders worldwide.  The Center subvents the publication of all series volumes. For more about the series and the partnership between the Clements Center and UNC Press, please click .

Co-editors:
Andrew R. Graybill
Benjamin H. Johnson

Editorial Board:
Juliana Barr
Sarah Carter
Maurice Crandall
Ruben Flores
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
S. Deborah Kang
Cynthia Radding
Samuel Truett

In order of publication, volumes published or under contract:

Elliott Young, (2014) Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award

Michel Hogue, (2015) Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize and the Clio Prize

Andrew J. Torget,  (2015) Winner of the David J. Weber Prize, the William M. LeoGrande Prize, the Ramirez Family Award, the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, the Kate Broocks Bates Award, the Ottis G. Lock Prize, the Summerfield G. Roberts Award, the Catherine Munson Foster Memorial Award, the San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, and the Texas Old Missions and Forest Restoration Award

John Weber, (2015) Finalist for the David J. Weber Prize

Holly M. Karibo,  (2015) Winner of the Michigan Historical Society State History Award

Julie M. Weise,  (2015) Winner of the Merle Curti Award and the CLR James Award

Mireya Loza,  (2016) Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award and the Smithsonian Secretary's Research Prize

Julian Lim,  (2017) Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Award and the David J. Weber Prize

Gina M. Martino,  (2018)

Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, (2018) Winner of the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Award, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Jessica M. Kim,  (2019) Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Urban History Award

Maurice Crandall,  (2019) Winner of the Caughey Western History Association Prize and the David J. Weber Prize from the Western History Association, the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association, and Honorable Mention for the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award

Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr.,  (2020) Finalist for the Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America

Ryan Hall,  (2020) Finalist, 2021 Spur Awards (Historical Nonfiction), Western Writers of America

Kevin Waite, (2021) Winner of the Wiley-Silver Prize from the Center for Civil War Research, and finalist for both the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize

Andrew Torget and Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle, eds.,  (2022)

Andrea Geiger,  (2022)

John Nelson,  (September 2023) 2024 Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society and Shortlisted, 2024 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, The Newberry

Mark Dizon,  (September 2023)

Omar Valerio Jiménez,  (April 2024)

Eric Schlereth,  (April 2024)

Andrew Isenberg, “The Experimental Empire: Indians, Squatters, and Slaves in the North American Borderlands” (forthcoming)

Erika Pani, “Torn Asunder: The North American Republics at Mid-Century, 1848-1867” (forthcoming)

Katherine Massoth, “Keeping House: The Borders of Gender Roles, Cultural Practice, and Domesticity in Territorial New Mexico and Arizona” (forthcoming)

Irvin Ibargüen, “Mitigation Nation: Mexico and its Struggle to Control US-Mexican Migration” (forthcoming)

Erin Kramer, “The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands” (forthcoming)

Kyle Harvey, “In Place of Mobility: Migrants, Rebels, and Engineers in a Nineteenth-Century Argentine-Chilean Borderland” (forthcoming)

Image: David Weber on Top of His World, 2004.  Courtesy of Carol B. Weber