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Giving Day is March 22

March 22 is SMU Giving Day. For one day, if many Mustangs come from many different places to do many good things, together, we can shape a brighter future. https://bit.ly/gddedman Dedman College Opportunities Goal Description Department of Biological Sciences $5,000   The Department of Biological Sciences and its faculty provide insight into how life and […]

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Joel Zapta receives Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship

Joel Zapata has received a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latino Studies for 2022-2023 as a resident scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There he will continue his study tentatively titled, “The Erased Homeland: Mexicans’ Long Past, the Southern Great Plains, and America’s Future.” Congratulations!

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Congrats to PhD candidates, Ashton Reynolds and Christopher Walton

Congratulations to Christopher Walton, History PhD candidate, as he was awarded a $500 IHS Hayek Fund for Scholars Grant from the Institute for Humane Studies! PhD candidate Ashton Reynolds has been awarded a 2022-2023 Beineke Library Research Fellowship from Yale to work with their James J Strang Papers and Collection

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Department of History alumnus wins NACCS book award

Congratulations to History Ph.D. alumnus Aaron Sanchez! His book Homeland: Ethnic Mexican Belonging since 1900 was awarded the 2022 NACCS (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies) Tejas Foco Non-fiction Book Award for best book in Tejana/o studies in the nation.  

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Congratulations to Roberto Andrade

SMU alumnus Roberto Andrade (Ph.D. History, 2020) just signed a contract to write full time for ESPN!

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SMU Doctoral Candidate Wins Cherokee National Scholarship

Congratulations! Kevin Briceland, SMU doctoral candidate in history, has been awarded a Cherokee Nation Scholarship to continue his graduate studies.

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Listen: SMU alumna, Jennifer Koshatka Seman on Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio Jennifer Koshatka Seman (Ph.D. in history, 2015), SMU alumna and lecturer at Metropolitan State University in Denver, was interviewed by Texas Public Radio in San Antonio on curanderismo, faith healing, in the U.S./Mexico borderlands– https://www.tpr.org/podcast/fronteras/2022-01-21/fronteras-borderlands-curanderos-faith-healers-of-the-late-19th-and-early-20th-centuries-were-also-revolutionaries.  

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Congratulations to Joel Zapata

Dedman News Joel Zapata (Ph.D. in history, 2019), SMU alumnus and assistant professor at Oregon State University, has been named Cairns K. Smith Faculty Scholar at OSU for his research in public history.

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Congratulations to Ruben Arellano

Ruben A. Arellano (Ph.D. history 2017), SMU alumnus and Dallas College-Mountain View professor, recently published the following– “El Es Dios! A Historical Interpretation of Danza Azteca as a Revitalization Movement’ Journal of Festive Studies, Vol. 3, 2021, 121—14 https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2021.3.1.61

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Opinion: America should honor MLK’s vision by halting the death penalty

Dallas Morning News By Rick Halperin, director of the SMD Dallas Human Rights Program On Monday the nation will pause, perhaps too briefly, to remember and pay tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., arguably the leading U.S. (and global) civil and human rights activist who was the voice of reason and conscience during […]