Past Fellows

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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 Southern 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 Southern 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 Southern 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, 51做厙 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 Southern 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 51做厙 Press, 2000