Previous Clements Center Graduate Grant Recipients
Image: Founding benefactor Governor Bill Clements with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Department of History chair Kathleen Wellman, along with °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â 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 © °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â, 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 |
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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 |
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Austin Miller |
History |
The Steven Denson/Clements Center Research Grant |
Picuris Pueblo |
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Zac Nash |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Republic of the Rio Grande and the Republic of Yucatan |
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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 |
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Kyle Carpenter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Global Rio Grande: European Networks in the Rio Grande Borderlands, 1821-1880 |
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Joshua Tracy |
History |
The Joe Staley/Clements Center Research Grant |
A Border and A Resource: A History of the Rio Grande Valley |
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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 |
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Kyle Carpenter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
European Lens on the Rio Grande Valley after the Mexican-American War |
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Joshua Tracy |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Border and A Resource: A History of the Rio Grande Valley |
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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 |
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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 |
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Rachel Burger |
Anthropology |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
Food Security and Coalescence at Sapa’owingeh in Northern New Mexico |
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Margaret Neubauer |
History |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
American Indian Child Welfare, Activism, and Sovereignty, 1945-1978 |
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Patrick Troester |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Development of Social Networks in Post U.S.-Mexican War Between U.S. Militia and Mexicans |
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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 |
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Margaret Neubauer |
History |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
Indian Child Welfare, Sovereignty, and Race in Cold War America |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ruben Arellano |
History |
The Steven Denson Research Grant |
Coahuiltecan Identity in San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley |
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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 |
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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 |
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Luis García |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Medieval Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in Texas and Northeastern Mexico (1686-1845) |
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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 |
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Carrie Johnston |
English |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Women Writers in the Mabel Dodge Luhan’s and Alice Corbin Henderson’s Literary Salons |
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Derek Kutzer |
History |
The Jefferson Morgenthaler Research Grant |
Chicano Movement, Migrating Hippies, Hispano Residents in the Southern Rockies During the 1960s |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ruben Arellano |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Coahuiltecos Multiraciality and Identity |
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Scott Cassingham |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
The Santa Fe Trail |
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Luis García |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
A Medieval Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in Texas and Northeastern Mexico (1686-1845) |
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Albert González |
Anthropology |
The Roy Coffee Research Grant |
Turley's Mill, New Mexico |
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Derek Kutzer |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
Chicano Movement, Migrating Hippies, Hispano Residents in the Southern Rockies During the 1960s |
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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 |
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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 |
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Luis García |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
A Medieval Frontier: Warfare and Military Culture in Texas and Northeastern Mexico (1686-1845) |
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Albert González |
Anthropology |
The Bauman/Coffee Research Grant |
An Anthropology Study of Turley's Mill, New Mexico |
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Carla Mendiola |
History |
The Komatsu/Mohraz Research Grant |
Transnational Families and Mestizaje in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands and Canada |
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Jennifer Seman |
History |
The Levine/Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Teresa Urrea and Faith Healing in the Borderlands |
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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 |
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Aja Martin |
Art History |
The Mohraz/Piper Foundation Research Grant |
First-generation Earth Artist Walter DeMaria and his “Lightning Field |
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Christy McPherson |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation/Piper Foundation Research Grant |
Private Violations in the Public Imagination: Sexual Violence in the U.S., 1880-1930 |
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Carla Mendiola |
History |
The Komatsu/Stardust Foundation Research Grant |
Comparative Study of Texas-Mexico and Maine-Canada Mestizaje |
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Todd Meyers |
History |
The Bauman/Staley Research Grant |
“Red or Green?": An Environmental History of the Chile Pepper in Southern New Mexico, 1900-2000 |
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John Perryman |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation Research Grant |
Methodism in American Institutions of Higher Education in Texas |
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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 |
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Paul Michael Dusek |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Development of Rural Electricity in the Texas Hill Country During the New Deal Era |
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Albert González |
Anthropology |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
An Anthropology Study of Turley's Mill, New Mexico |
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John Gram |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Education on the Edge of Empire: The Pueblos and the Federal Boarding Schools, 1881-1928 |
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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 |
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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 |
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George Díaz |
History |
The Wellington Research Grant |
Contrabandista Communities: States and Smugglers in the Lower Rio Grande Borderlands, 1848-1945 |
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John Gram |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Education on the Edge of Empire: The Pueblos and the Federal Boarding Schools, 1881-1928 |
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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 |
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David Rex Galindo |
History |
The Jonsson Foundation/Watson Research Grant |
"Propaganda fide": Training Franciscan Missionaries in New Spain |
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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 |
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Anna Banhegyi |
History |
The Wellington/Mohraz Research Grant |
Where Marx Meets Osceola: Ideology and Mythology in the Eastern Bloc Western |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Judith Cooper & Ryan Beverly |
Anthropology |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Exploring Paleoindian Site-Use at Bonfire Shelter, Stockton Plateau, Texas |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jim Dudlo |
History |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Martial Borderland: The Armed Incorporation of New Mexico, 1598-1912 |
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Susan Harper-Bisso |
Anthropology |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Constructing Gender Identity and Social Identity in an American NeoPagan Community |
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Jeff Junkin |
Studio Art |
The Advisory Panel Research Grant |
Correlation Between Early Native Americans’ Sacred Spaces and the Surrounding Natural Landscapes |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jim Dudlo |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Martial Borderland: The Armed Incorporation of New Mexico, 1598-1912 |
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Susan Harper-Bisso |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Constructing Gender Identity and Social Identity in an American NeoPagan Community |
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José Ramirez |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Tejanos in World War I: Here and Over There |
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Jeff Schulze |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Trans-Nations: Indians, Imagined Communities, and Border Realities in the Twentieth Century |
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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 |
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Hilary Lynn Chester |
Geology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Geological Study of the Mogollon Region |
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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 |
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Amy Meschke Porter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Women’s Lives Through Women’s Wills in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1750-1846 |
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Dionne Procell |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
20th Century Developments Regarding Official Recognition and Indian Identityof the Choctaw-Apache |
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José Ramirez |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Tejanos in World War I: Here and Over There |
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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 |
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Jason LaBelle |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Prehistoric Obsidian Artifacts Reflected in the Movements of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Late Holocene Period |
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Linda Lindsay |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Analysis of Bone Tempered Ceramics Among the Caddo, Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache |
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Amy Meschke Porter |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Women’s Lives Through Women’s Wills in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1750-1846 |
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Katherine Nelson |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Thin-Section Analysis of Ceramics from the Chavez-Hummingbird Site in New Mexico |
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Kerry Oman |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
As Far as the Eye Can Reach’: Eastern Sensibilities and the Changing Western Landscape |
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Clive Siegle |
History |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Ciboleros and Sharps Rifles: Hispanics, Anglos, and the Great Buffalo Harvest, 1785-1879 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Joseph Miller |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Statistical Methods for Understanding Culture Change |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Brian Harmon |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
The Archaeology of Recycled Architecture |
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Jason LaBelle |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
A Bison antiquus from Archuleta Creek, Folsom, New Mexico |
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Joseph Miller |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Statistical Methods for Understanding Culture Change |
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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 |
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Katherine Nelson |
Anthropology |
The Clements Center Research Grant |
Thin-Section Analysis of Prehistoric Cermanics from the Chavez-Hummingbird Site in New Mexico |