Current GRAs
Laura Narvaez is a First Gen PhD Candidate in the Clements Department of History. She completed her BA and MA at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she was a Nau Graduate Research Fellow and focused on twentieth century Texas and U.S. history. Her research centers oral history methodology and is geared towards the intersections of gender, race, and class in Chicana feminist activism, as well as the Mexican Revolution’s impact on memory and Mexican American social movements.
Edgar Velazquez is a PhD student in the Clements Department of History…
Luisa Tilhe is a PhD student from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is studying American political and cultural history in the 1990s, focusing on the relationship between the media, the presidency and public opinion.
GRA Alumni
Dr. Jonathan Angulo (PhD, 2022) is an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow and Research and Policy Analyst with the UFW Foundation. He is writing an economic and immigration history of the Imperial-Mexicali Valley of the California borderlands.
Katie Cross is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, specializing in Archaeology. She writes about the lived experiences of African Americans residing in Dallas Freedman’s Towns during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras.
Dr. Camille Davis (PhD, 2022) is the H. Ross Perot Sr. Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History in Dallas. She is a visual and intellectual historian of the United States.
Brett Fearer earned his MA in U.S. History at SMU and received his BA with a double major in History and French from Wichita State University. He now teaches high school social studies.
Dr. Joel Zapata (PhD, 2019) is a historian of the greater U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the Southwest, the South, and the lands where these regions meet, the Southern Great Plains. He is Assistant Professor and the Cairns K. Smith Faculty Scholar at Oregon State University’s School of History, Philosophy, and Religion.