Previous Clements Center Graduate Grant Recipients
Image: Founding benefactor Governor Bill Clements with 91勛圖厙 Department of History chair Kathleen Wellman, along with 91勛圖厙 history PhD students Carla Mendiola, Dale Topham, Luis Garcia, Jennifer Seman, David Rex Galindo, Gabriel Martinez-Serna, Derek Kutzer, Jenna Valadez, George T. Diaz and Timothy Bowman. Photo © 91勛圖厙, Hillsman Jackson.
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2024 |
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Eugene Alviar | History | The Clements Center Research Grant | Working Men, Working as Women: Female Impersonation, Masculinity, and Manhood in Texas, 1911-1950 |
Emma Armstrong | History | The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant | Cold War Arctic: Superpower Competition and Environmental Exploitation of the World’s Northernmost Region |
2023 |
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Kristel Orta-Puente | History | The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant | White Hats with Bloody Hands and Cold Hearts |
Austin Miller | History | The Clements Center Research Grant | Salt and Sand: Deep History in the Permian Basin |
2022 |
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Jon Angulo | History | The Clements Center Research Grant | (Im)migration and Economic conditions in California's Imperial Valley, 1917-1990 |
Skye Cranney | History | The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
‘She Craves the Privacy of a Humble Citizen’: The Hollywood Machine and the Redefinition of American Women in Public, 1920-1950 |
Bonnie Etter | Anthropology | The Steven Denson/Clements Center Research Grant | Indigenous Perspectives of Landscapes in Texas History |
Meghan Lowery | Anthropology | The Clements Center Research Grant | Reproductive Health Policy in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands |
2021 |
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Kevin Briceland |
History | The Steven Denson/Clements Center Research Grant |
"Blood and Oil:" Race and Landownership in Early Oklahoma, 1871-1921 |
Austin Miller | History | The Clements Center Research Grant |
Salt and Sand: Energy and the Environment of the Pecos Valley |
Patrick Troester | History | The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
Violence, Kinship, and Nation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1820-1890 |
2020 |
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McKenzie Alford | Anthropology | The Clements Center Research Grant | Hohokam (Huhugam) and Historic O’Odham Repatriation, Material Culture, and Chronology |
Danya Epstein | Art History | The Clements Center Research Grant | The Archive is Absent: Hopi Art History in the Long Twentieth Century |
Josh Phillips | History | Steven Denson/Clements Center Research Grant | Choctaw and Allegiances with the Confederacy |
Timothy Seiter | History |
The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
The Karankawa Indians of Texas |
2019 |
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Ryan Breslawski |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Geography of Altithermal Subsistence Adaptations on the North American Great Plains |
Kyle Carpenter |
History |
The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
The Global Rio Grande: Entrepreneurs, Colonization, and Mercantile Networks in the Rio Grande Borderlands, 1831-1881 |
Austin Miller |
History |
The Steven Denson/Clements Center Research Grant |
Picuris Pueblo |
Zac Nash |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Republic of the Rio Grande and the Republic of Yucatan |
Patrick Troester |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Broken Edge of Empire: Making Violence, Nations, and State Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1820-1890 |
2018 |
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Roberto Andrade |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
El Gran Chingón vs. The Great Off-White Hope: Julio Cesár Chávez, Oscar De La Hoya, and Mexican Authenticity |
Kyle Carpenter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Global Rio Grande: European Networks in the Rio Grande Borderlands, 1821-1880 |
Joshua Tracy |
History |
The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
A Border and A Resource: A History of the Rio Grande Valley |
Patrick Troester |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Nation-Making and the Politics of Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1835-1870 |
2017 |
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Roberto Andrade |
History |
The Joe Staley Travel Research Grant |
El Gran Chingón vs. The Great Off-White Hope: Julio Cesár Chávez, Oscar De La Hoya, and Mexican Authenticity |
Kyle Carpenter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
European Lens on the Rio Grande Valley after the Mexican-American War |
Joshua Tracy |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Border and A Resource: A History of the Rio Grande Valley |
Patrick Troester |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Broken Edge of Empire: Making Violence, Nations, and State Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1821-1890 |
Joel Zapata |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Mexican Southern Plains: Creating an Ethnic Mexican Homeland on the Llano |
2016 |
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Zachary Adams |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Mexican- and Irish- American Nationalism 1900-1930 |
Rachel Burger |
Anthropology |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
Food Security and Coalescence at Sapa’owingeh in Northern New Mexico |
Margaret Neubauer |
History |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
American Indian Child Welfare, Activism, and Sovereignty, 1945-1978 |
Patrick Troester |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Development of Social Networks in Post U.S.-Mexican War Between U.S. Militia and Mexicans |
Joel Zapata |
History |
The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
The Mexican Southern Plains: Trading, Hunting, Herding, Laboring, Fighting for Social Justice, and Creating an Ethnic Mexican Homeland, 1848-2010 |
2015 |
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Ruben Arellano |
History |
The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
Becoming Indian: Reclaiming Coahuiltecan Indigeneity in the Tejano Community |
Margaret Neubauer |
History |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
Indian Child Welfare, Sovereignty, and Race in Cold War America |
Patrick Troester |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
U.S. Army’s Campaigns and Occupations in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands during the U.S.-Mexican War |
Joel Zapata |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Cultural Influence of Ethnic Mexicans, U.S. Born and Immigrants, on the Texas Panhandle |
2014 |
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Michael Aiuvalasit |
Anthropology |
The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
Prehistoric “Mega-Droughts” and Community Sustainability of Ancestral Puebloans During Spanish Contact in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico |
Ruben Arellano |
History |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
Coahuiltecan Identity in San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley |
Albert Gonzalez |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Social Impact of Industrial Construction in the 19th Century at Turley’s Mill, NM |
2013 |
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Ruben Arellano |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Coahuiltecan Identiy |
Samantha Robinson |
Art History |
The Steve Denson/Clements Center Research Grant |
The Náhuatl Language in the Florentine Codex |
2012 |
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Ruben Arellano |
History |
The Jim Watson Research Grant |
Changing Identities of the Coahuiltecan Indians prior to the U.S.-Mexico War |
Luis García |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Medieval Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in Texas and Northeastern Mexico (1686-1845) |
Lisa Haayen |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Meaning of ‘American’: Civic Belonging Among Second-Generation Youth in Super-diverse Neighborhood in Dallas, Texas |
Carrie Johnston |
English |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Women Writers in the Mabel Dodge Luhan’s and Alice Corbin Henderson’s Literary Salons |
Derek Kutzer |
History |
The Jefferson Morgenthaler Research Grant |
Chicano Movement, Migrating Hippies, Hispano Residents in the Southern Rockies During the 1960s |
Carla Mendiola |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Mestizaje Matters: How Mestizaje/ Métissage/Intermixture Along the Texas-Mexico and Maine-Canada Borders Shaped Families, Communities, and Identities, 1880-1930 |
Jennifer Seman |
History |
The Jim Watson Research Grant |
The Politics of Curanderismo: Santa Teresa Urrea, Don Pedrito Jaramillo, and Faith Healing in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century |
Jenna Valadez |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
To Be ‘Indian’: Evolving Indigenous Identity in the U.S. through the Writings of Zitkala-Sa and Wassaja |
2011 |
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Anne Allbright |
History |
The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Foundation Research Grant |
Oscar Brousse Jacobson Work among Native Artists in the Early 20th Century |
Ruben Arellano |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Coahuiltecos Multiraciality and Identity |
Scott Cassingham |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
The Santa Fe Trail |
Luis García |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
A Medieval Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in Texas and Northeastern Mexico (1686-1845) |
Albert González |
Anthropology |
The Roy Coffee Research Grant |
Turley's Mill, New Mexico |
Derek Kutzer |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
Chicano Movement, Migrating Hippies, Hispano Residents in the Southern Rockies During the 1960s |
Carla Mendiola |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Mestizaje Matters: How Mestizaje/ Métissage/Intermixture Along the Texas-Mexico and Maine-Canada Borders Shaped Families, Communities, and Identities, 1880-1930 |
Jennifer Seman |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Teresa Urrea and Faith Healing in the Borderlands |
2010 |
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Anne Allbright |
History |
The McElhaney Family Foundation Research Grant |
Oscar Brousse Jacobson Work Among Native Artists in the Early 20th Century |
Luis García |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
A Medieval Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in Texas and Northeastern Mexico (1686-1845) |
Albert González |
Anthropology |
The Bauman/Coffee Research Grant |
An Anthropology Study of Turley's Mill, New Mexico |
Carla Mendiola |
History |
The Komatsu/Mohraz Research Grant |
Transnational Families and Mestizaje in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands and Canada |
Jennifer Seman |
History |
The Levine/Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Teresa Urrea and Faith Healing in the Borderlands |
Dale Topham |
History |
Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Resistance, Compromise, and Acceptance: State Conservation, Environmentalism, and Anti-Environmental Politics in Parowan, Utah, 1851-2000 |
2009 |
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Albert González |
Anthropology |
The Coffee Research Grant |
An Anthropology Study of Turley's Mill, New Mexico |
Aja Martin |
Art History |
The Mohraz/Piper Foundation Research Grant |
First-generation Earth Artist Walter DeMaria and his “Lightning Field |
Christy McPherson |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation/Piper Foundation Research Grant |
Private Violations in the Public Imagination: Sexual Violence in the U.S., 1880-1930 |
Carla Mendiola |
History |
The Komatsu/Stardust Foundation Research Grant |
Comparative Study of Texas-Mexico and Maine-Canada Mestizaje |
Todd Meyers |
History |
The Bauman/Staley Research Grant |
“Red or Green?": An Environmental History of the Chile Pepper in Southern New Mexico, 1900-2000 |
John Perryman |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
Methodism in American Institutions of Higher Education in Texas |
David Rex Galindo |
History |
The Anchia/Stardust/Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
"Propaganda fide": Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain |
2008 |
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Timothy Bowman |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Blood Oranges: Citriculture, Colonialism, and the Making of Anglo-American Identity in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Borderlands during the Twentieth Century |
Paul Michael Dusek |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Development of Rural Electricity in the Texas Hill Country During the New Deal Era |
Albert González |
Anthropology |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
An Anthropology Study of Turley's Mill, New Mexico |
John Gram |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Education on the Edge of Empire: The Pueblos and the Federal Boarding Schools, 1881-1928 |
Gabriel Martinez-Serna |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Vineyards in the Desert: The Jesuits and the Rise and Decline of an Indian Town in New Spain's Northeastern Borderlands |
David Rex Galindo |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
"Propaganda fide": Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain |
2007 |
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Anna Banhegyi |
History |
The Bauman Research Grant |
Where Marx Meets Osceola: Ideology and Mythology in the Eastern Bloc Western |
George Díaz |
History |
The Wellington Research Grant |
Contrabandista Communities: States and Smugglers in the Lower Rio Grande Borderlands, 1848-1945 |
John Gram |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Education on the Edge of Empire: The Pueblos and the Federal Boarding Schools, 1881-1928 |
Gabriele Martinez-Serna |
History |
The Coffee Research Grant |
Vineyards in the Desert: The Jesuits and the Rise and Decline of an Indian Town in New Spain's Northeastern Borderlands |
David Rex Galindo |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation/Watson Research Grant |
"Propaganda fide": Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain |
Catrina Whitley |
Archaeology |
The Mohraz/Piper Foundation Research Grant |
Analytical Study of the Skeletal Remains from Blueberry Hill Excavation, Taos, NM |
2006 |
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Matt Babcock |
History |
The Jonsson Research Grant |
Turning Apaches into Spaniards: North America's Forgotten Indian Reservations |
Anna Banhegyi |
History |
The Wellington/Mohraz Research Grant |
Where Marx Meets Osceola: Ideology and Mythology in the Eastern Bloc Western |
Alicia Dewey |
History |
The Hutchison Research Grant |
Risk and Opportunity on the U.S./Mexico Border: Credit, Bankruptcy, and the Emergence of the Anglo and Mexican-American Middle Classes in South Texas, 1898-1941 |
Gabriel Martinez-Serna |
History |
The Foster/McElhaney Research Grant |
Vineyards in the Desert: The Jesuits and the Rise and Decline of an Indian Town in New Spain's Northeastern Borderlands |
David Rex Galindo |
History |
The Watson/Coffee Research Grant |
"Propaganda fide": Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain |
2005 |
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David Rex Galindo |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
"Propaganda fide": Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain |
Judith Cooper & Ryan Beverly |
Anthropology |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Exploring Paleoindian Site-Use at Bonfire Shelter, Stockton Plateau, Texas |
Gabriel Martinez-Serna |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Vineyards in the Desert: The Jesuits and the Rise and Decline of an Indian Town in New Spain's Northeastern Borderlands |
Helen McLure |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
‘I Suppose You Think Strange the Murder of Women and Children’: White-capping and Lynching in the American West, 1850-1930 |
2004 |
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Constance Bradford |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Women’s Experiences in Texas Institutions of Higher Learning, 1880-1920 |
Jim Dudlo |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Martial Borderland: The Armed Incorporation of New Mexico, 1598-1912 |
Susan Harper-Bisso |
Anthropology |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Constructing Gender Identity and Social Identity in an American NeoPagan Community |
Jeff Junkin |
Studio Art |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Correlation Between Early Native Americans’ Sacred Spaces and the Surrounding Natural Landscapes |
Jason Theuer |
Anthropology |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
The Chávez-Hummingbird Middle School Archaeological Project |
2003 |
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Michael Bletzer |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Strategies of Natives and Spaniards in 17th Century New Mexico and the Abandonment of the Piro and Tompiro Area |
Jimmy Bryan |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The American Elsewhere: Adventurism and Manliness in the Age of Expansion, 1814-1848 |
Jim Dudlo |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Martial Borderland: The Armed Incorporation of New Mexico, 1598-1912 |
Susan Harper-Bisso |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Constructing Gender Identity and Social Identity in an American NeoPagan Community |
José Ramirez |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Tejanos in World War I: Here and Over There |
Jeff Schulze |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Trans-Nations: Indians, Imagined Communities, and Border Realities in the Twentieth Century |
Catrina Whitley |
Archaeology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Analytical Study of the Skeletal Remains from Blueberry Hill Excavation, Taos, NM |
2002 |
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Meena Balakrishnan |
Geology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Isotopic Composition of Land Snail Shells and Paleoenvironmental Implications at the Folsom Archaeological Site |
Hilary Lynn Chester |
Geology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Geological Study of the Mogollon Region |
Francis Xavier Galán |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Last Soldiers, First Pioneers: The Los Adaes Border Community on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1721-1779 |
Amy Meschke Porter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Women’s Lives Through Women’s Wills in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1750-1846 |
Dionne Procell |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
20th Century Developments Regarding Official Recognition and Indian Identityof the Choctaw-Apache |
José Ramirez |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Tejanos in World War I: Here and Over There |
Clive Siegle |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Ciboleros and Sharps Rifles: Hispanics, Anglos, and the Great Buffalo Harvest, 1785-1879 |
2001 |
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Michael Bletzer |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Strategies of Natives and Spaniards in 17th Century New Mexico and the Abandonment of the Piro and Tompiro Area |
Jason LaBelle |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Prehistoric Obsidian Artifacts Reflected in the Movements of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Late Holocene Period |
Linda Lindsay |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Analysis of Bone Tempered Ceramics Among the Caddo, Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache |
Amy Meschke Porter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Women’s Lives Through Women’s Wills in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1750-1846 |
Katherine Nelson |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Thin-Section Analysis of Ceramics from the Chavez-Hummingbird Site in New Mexico |
Kerry Oman |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
As Far as the Eye Can Reach’: Eastern Sensibilities and the Changing Western Landscape |
Clive Siegle |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Ciboleros and Sharps Rifles: Hispanics, Anglos, and the Great Buffalo Harvest, 1785-1879 |
Lia Tsesmeli |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Analysis of Building Materials and Use of Space as Temporal Identifiers of Social Change and Migration in Prehistoric New Mexico |
Sharon Young |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Ambient Air Quality in the El Paso Air Shed and the Acute Respiratory Disease Burden of Exposed Children |
2000 |
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Jimmy Bryan |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The American Elsewhere: Adventurism and Manliness in the Age of Expansion, 1814-1848 |
Risa Diemond |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Agricultural Strategies and Labor Organization: An Ethnohistoric Approach to the Study of Prehistoric Farming Systems in the Taos Area of Northern New Mexico |
Joseph Miller |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Statistical Methods for Understanding Culture Change |
Christy Noonkester Schiller |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Medical Anthropology |
1999 |
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Risa Diemond |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Agricultural Strategies and Labor Organization: An Ethnohistoric Approach to the Study of Prehistoric Farming Systems in the Taos Area of Northern New Mexico |
Billie (Sugar) Glaspy |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Settlement of the Prairie Margin: Archaeology of the Richland Creek Reservoir, Navarro and Freestone Counties, Texas, 1980-1981 |
Pei-Lin Yu |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Variability in the Transition from Foraging to Agriculture Across the American West: The Relationship Between Early Farming and Pre-existing Dependence on Wild Plant Foods |
1998 |
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Andrea Boardman |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Destination México, “A Foreign Land a Step Away”: U.S. Tourism to Mexico, 1880s-1950s |
Risa Diemond |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Agricultural Strategies and Labor Organization: An Ethnohistoric Approach to the Study of Prehistoric Farming Systems in the Taos Area of Northern New Mexico |
Brian Harmon |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Archaeology of Recycled Architecture |
Jason LaBelle |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Bison antiquus from Archuleta Creek, Folsom, New Mexico |
Joseph Miller |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Statistical Methods for Understanding Culture Change |
John Seebach |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Investigations at the Hot Tubb Folsom Site (41CR10), Crane County, Texas |
1997 |
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Jeremy R. Kulisheck |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Archaeology of Pueblo Population Change on the Jemez Plateau, AD 1200-1700 |
Katherine Nelson |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Thin-Section Analysis of Prehistoric Cermanics from the Chavez-Hummingbird Site in New Mexico |
Constructing Gender Identity and
Social Identity in an American NeoPagan Community
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Constructing Gender Identity and
Social Identity in an American NeoPagan Community
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