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    • Cameron County
      • Bagdad
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      • Peñitas Cemetery
      • Webber's Ranch
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    • Imperial Mexico
      • Benito Juarez
      • Matamoros
      • Mexico from 1846 to 1876
      • Mexico and the U.S. Civil War
      • Porfirio Díaz
      • The Franco-Austrian Invasion
    • Jim Wells County
      • Battle at Los Patricios
    • Kleberg County
      • King Ranch
    • Starr County
      • John Vale/Noah Cox House
      • Juan Cortina
      • Mifflin Kenedy Warehouse
      • Old Rio Grande Cemetery
      • Ramirez Hospital
      • Ringgold Barracks
      • Robert E. Lee House
      • Roma Historic District
    • Webb County
      • Col. Santos Benavides
      • Fort McIntosh
      • St. Augustine Plaza, Laredo
      • Zacate Creek
    • Zapata County
      • Confederate Retaliation at La Soledad
      • Confrontation at Carrizo
      • Massacre at El Clareño
      • Reconstruction Era in Zapata County
      • Second Battle of El Clareño and Hanging of Zapata County Judge
      • Skirmish at Redmond's Ranch
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    • Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the American Civil War
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RGV- Civil War Program
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Dr.
LAMR 1.103
Conference Room LAMR 1.104
Email: chaps@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3231

Quick Links

CHAPS RGV Civil War “Cotton Times” Film Discovery Trails Sponsorship Opportunities Blue and Gray on the Border: The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876

UTRGV Faculty and Staff

Russell K. Skowronek

Professor of History and Anthropology
Phone: (956) 665-3321
Email: russell.skowronek@utrgv.edu
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Russell K. Skowronek

Professor of History and Anthropology
Email: russell.skowronek@utrgv.edu
ELABN 329
Phone: (956) 665-3321

Christopher Miller

Professor of History
Phone: (956) 665-3561
Email: christopher.miller@utrgv.edu
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Christopher Miller

Professor of History
Email: christopher.miller@utrgv.edu
ELABS 346D
Phone: (956) 665-3561

Roseann Bacha-Garza

CHAPS Program Manager
Phone: (956) 665-3231
Email: roseann.bachagarza@utrgv.edu
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Roseann Bacha-Garza

CHAPS Program Manager
Email: roseann.bachagarza@utrgv.edu
LAMR 1.103
Phone: (956) 665-3231

Samantha Bernard

Graduate Research Associate
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Samantha Bernard

Graduate Research Associate
2012-2013

Irving Levinson

Associate Professor
Phone: (956) 665-3574
Email: irving.levinson@utrgv.edu
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Irving Levinson

Associate Professor
Email: irving.levinson@utrgv.edu
ELABS 344B
Phone: (956) 665-3574

David Carren

Associate Professor of Communications Chief Script Consultant
Phone: (956) 665-2634
Email: david.carren@utrgv.edu
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David Carren

Associate Professor of Communications Chief Script Consultant
Email: david.carren@utrgv.edu
ELABS 148
Phone: (956) 665-2634

Nick Taylor

Lecturer II
Phone: (956) 665-8075
Email: nick.taylor@utrgv.edu
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Nick Taylor

Lecturer II
Email: nick.taylor@utrgv.edu
ELCTR 216
Phone: (956) 665-8075

Charles Waite

Associate Professor
Phone: (956) 665-3564
Email: charles.waite@utrgv.edu
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Charles Waite

Associate Professor
Email: charles.waite@utrgv.edu
Edinburg, ELABS 344C
Phone: (956) 665-3564

Melissa Ochoa

Chief Script Writer and Assistant producer
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Melissa Ochoa

Chief Script Writer and Assistant producer

Jamie Trevino

Script Writer
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Jamie Trevino

Script Writer

Dr. José Dávila-Montes

Translator of Materials - English to Spanish
Phone: (956) 882-8215
Email: jose.davila@utrgv.edu
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Dr. José Dávila-Montes

Translator of Materials - English to Spanish
Writing and Language Studies
Email: jose.davila@utrgv.edu
MAIN 1.526
Phone: (956) 882-8215

Katherine Lozano

Publicity and Social Media
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Katherine Lozano

Publicity and Social Media

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