Faculty News
Linda English published Run for Your Lives! Gender and the Runaway Scrape (Texas A&M Press, June 2024).
David Fisher received the Brownsville Historical Association’s annual Kino Camarillo Service Award for his work with the BHA’s student internship program.
Amy Hay is featured as a historical consultant in the upcoming American Experience documentary, Poisoned Ground, that focuses on the Love Canal chemical disaster. The film premieres Monday, April 22, on PBS. Click here to view the documentary trailer.
Amy Hay published The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests.
USA Today interviewed Megan Birk about "practice babies." Check out the full story here.
Nilanjana Paul's article, The Indian Mission of the Institute of Blessed Virging Mary (IBVM) Nuns: Convents, Curriculum, and Indian Women, was recently published in the Journal of International Women's Studies.
In March of 2022, Nilanjana Paul published Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854-1947: A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics.
Megan Birk published The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms.
Megan Birk published The better the farm, the better the food: institutional diet, agricultural practices, and nutrition in U.S. almshouses in Food, Culture & Society, Volume 23 Issue 3; it is now available for you to access via tandfonline.com.
Jamie Starling has published an article on the Rio Grande borderlands during the nineteenth century titled “The Ghosts of Mier” in the Autumn issue of the Journal of the Southwest (University of Arizona), issued November 2019.
In the fall of 2019, Nilanjana Paul published "Gentlewomen in Colonial Calcutta: Experiences of Schooling," in South Asia Research v.39 n. 3S (Nov 2019): 13S-25S.
Nilanjana Paul and Jamie Starling received Humanities Texas and Office of Global Engagement grants to inaugurate an annual “Global Borderlands” lecture series. On October 2 and 3, 2019, Dr. Nancy Aguirre (Citadel) presented at sponsored events at the McAllen Public Library and UTRGV in Brownsville.
In September 2019, Megan Birk published “Poor Placed-Out Girls: The Rural Household Economy and the Value of Girlhood in the US” in the Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth.
Amy Hay published "War and Peace: The Phenoxy Herbicide" in the edited volume Hazardous Chemicals: Agents of Risk and Change (1800 – 2000). The volume was edited by Ernst Homburg and Elisabeth Vaupel.
Erica Buchberger co-edited the volume Inclusion and Exclusion in Mediterranean Christianities, 400-800 to which she also contributed the chapter: “Gothic Identity and the ‘Othering’ of Jews in Seventh-Century Spain."
Christopher L. Miller, Russell K. Skowronek, and Roseann Bacha-Garza recently published Blue and Gray on the Border: The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail (2018) and The Civil War on the Rio Grande Valley, 1846-1876 (2019). Both books were published by Texas A&M Press. Blue and Gray on the Border, The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail, was the runner-up for the 2019 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association (TOMFRA).
David Fisher published "Kremlin on the Trocadero: The Unexpected Claim to Modernity in Russian Architecture at the World’s Fairs,” in the edited volume A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture: 1700-2014. The volume was edited by Alla Aronova and Alexander Ortenberg.
In September 2018, Jamie Starling published "'From the Moment I Made My Wedding Vows My Suffering Began': Calidad in the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Borderlands" in The Latin Americanist (University of North Carolina).
Linda English published an article titled, “Madam, You Ought to be the Man Such Times as These”: Gendered Confrontations and the Runaway Scrape” in the journal American Nineteenth Century History in May 2018.
In May 2018, Amy Hay was honored with a UTRGV Faculty Excellence Award. Dr. Hay received the Excellence in Sustainability Education Award.
In March 2018, Harriett Densie Joseph published her new book From Santa Anna to Selena: Notable Mexicanos and Tejanos in Texas History in 1821 with the University of North Texas Press.