Scholars
2009-2010
Bettina Raphael
Since discovering her love of art history and then art conservation in college, Bettina Raphael has spent the last 35 years studying and working closely with works of art and objects of cultural heritage. A graduate of Barnard College and the Masters Program in Conservation at SUNY at Oneonta (Cooperstown, NY), Bettina has specialized in the preservation of ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, but winds up conserving a wide range of historic and contemporary 3-dimensional objects. She has worked with museums in many parts of the U.S. as well as in England and conducted workshops on cultural preservation in Latin America. Bettina now works with many collections in the Southwest, having established a private practice in Santa Fe. She has researched and written on various preservation topics including a study of an 18th cen. Italian restorer and a technical history of 1930s tinwork at Bandelier National Monument. Her growing involvement with the documentation and historic preservation of artists’ homes in the region has recently been merged with her interest in developing an appreciation for the life and work of one of Santa Fe’s leading women artists, Olive Rush.
Bruce J. Gjeltema, Ph.D.
Bruce Gjeltema grew up in colorful Gallup, New Mexico where he teaches American history, Native American history, and history of the US West at the branch of the University of New Mexico. Endlessly fascinated with how race, ethnicity and culture collide in the interaction between Indian country and the wider society, Professor Gjeltema has ventured into Native American studies, literature, honors and American Studies. His research fellowship with the New Mexico Office of the State Historian will be used to investigate the collusion between Navajo leader Jacob C. Morgan and US Senator Dennis Chavez as they filibustered the application of John Collier’s Indian New Deal on Navajos in the 1930s. This work will aid in the preparation of material from his dissertation on the life of Jacob Morgan for publication as a biography.
Christopher Cozzone
For the past ten years, Chris Cozzone, a UNM graduate, has been a photojournalist, writer and historian focusing on boxing. Traveling frequently to Las Vegas, Nev., Los Angeles, the Southwest and Mexico, he covers over 40 fight cards a year, his work appearing regularly on websites, magazines and newspapers all over the world. He has maintained the website NewMexicoBoxing.com for nine years now, and had a weekly column in the Albuquerque Tribune, before the paper’s demise. His work has also appeared in Penthouse, Ring Magazine, Newsweek, ESPN and others. In addition to his boxing beat, Chris has been working on a book on New Mexico’s boxing history for five years now, and also runs a company, Modern Tomes, that specializes in personal and family history.
Jerry Thompson, Ph.D.
Jerry Thompson is Regents professor of History at Texas A&M International University. He is the author or editor of twenty-two books on the history of the Texas-Mexico borderlands and is a specialists on the Civil War in the Southwest. Thompson has received awards from the Texas Historical Commission (T. R. Fehrenback Award), the Texas State Historical Association (Kate Broocks Bates Award), the Historical Society of New Mexico (Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award), and the Arizona Historical Society (Barry Goldwater Award). In 2008, he received the best non-fiction award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book entitled Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas. The previous year, he received the best scholarly book award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his biography of Gen. Samuel Peter Heintzelman. He is a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and served as president of the TSHA in 2000. Thompson received his BA degree in history from Western New Mexico University in 1964, and his MA in history from the University of New Mexico in 1968. His doctorate is from Carnegie-Mellon University where he wrote his dissertation under the distinguished Irving H. Bartlett. Thompson is married to Sara Cabello, Sociology instructor at Laredo Community College. They have one son, Jeremy, a student at Cornell University.
Jonathan Harrell-Naranjo
Jonathan Harrell-Naranjo hails from Santa Fe and has roots in both northern New Mexico and southern Louisiana. He holds a Master’s degree in Spanish with an emphasis in Southwest Studies from the University of New Mexico. His current research deals with the expressive culture of the 1830s rebellions against centralism in Mexico. He became interested in this time period as a child, when he used to hear stories about his family’s involvement in the Río Arriba rebellion of 1837. He has since become interested in the popular ballads and satirical décimas that were composed at the time and has arranged and performed one of the New Mexican décimas at cultural events in Santa Fe. This year he won a Fulbright-García Robles fellowship from COMEXUS (Comisión México-Estados Unidos para el Intercambio Educativo y Cultural), allowing him to conduct research in Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas and Mexico City, where he will investigate the connections between the expressive culture of the 1837 New Mexican rebellion, and that of similar rebellions and situations in present-day Mexico.
Lillian Makeda
Lillian Makeda lives in Gallup, New Mexico where she researches and writes about the cultural landscape of the Four Corners region. Trained in architectural history at the University of Virginia, she is presently teaching World Architecture at UNM-Gallup. Her master’s thesis, a summary of which is scheduled for publication this fall, explored Route 66 architecture in Petrified Forest National Park in eastern Arizona. Recently, she has been working with the Navajo Mountain, Utah chapter to rehabilitate the last surviving Indian New Deal hogan school. Her OSH fellowship will be used to research the activity of the Soil Conservation Service on the Navajo reservation during the 1930s and 1940s. She has traveled widely, studying buildings and landscapes around the globe, with a particular interest in the architecture of colonialism.
2008-2009
David Holtby, Ph.D.
Dr. David Holtby is a one-quarter-time staff member of the Center for Regional Studies at UNM. He spent twenty-eight years in scholarly publishing and retired as Editor in Chief and Associate Director of the University of New Mexico Press in 2006.
Jerry Wallace
Jerry Wallace is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Mexico. He received a M.A in history from New Mexico State University in 2007, where he wrote an environmental thesis that examined human-animal relationships in twentieth century New Mexico history. He is currently researching how the built environment in the West, Southwest, borderlands, and New Mexico shaped the way humans perceived and interacted with animals.
Jordan Beltran Gonzales
Jordan Beltran Gonzales is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He teaches courses in critical thinking, nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. history, social science research methods, and college writing with high school and college students. He is the grandson of a Philippine Scout who survived the Bata'an Death March.
Joy Sperling, Ph.D.
Joy Sperling teaches at Denison University in Ohio. She was educated at Edinburgh University and the Edinburgh College of art and holds a doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has published widely on Visual Culture and American Art History. Recent publications include “Prints and Photographs in Nineteenth Century England: Visual Communities, Cultures and Class,” in A History of Visual Culture:Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century, edited by Jane Kromm and Susan Bakewell, Berg Publishing (2009); “Popular Art in North America,” and “Popular Art in Europe,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture; “From Magic Lantern Slide to Digital Image: Visual Communities and American Culture,” in “Special Issue: American Art and Visual Culture”, The Journal of American Culture. Vol. 31, 1, March 2008; and Famous Works of Art in Popular Culture, Greenwood Press (2003). Her most recent project is funded by Denison University and the Denison University Research Fund in addition to the OSH.
Katherine Pomonis
Ms. Pomonis has a degree in anthropology and history from the University of Rhode Island and has done post graduate studies at the University of New Mexico. For twenty years, she worked at UNM's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. She is retired and actively volunteers in many community organizations.
Lille Norstad
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960’s, Lille Norstad was surrounded by its Spanish and Mexican heritage. She ate tacos, visited Olvera Street, and put up luminarias at Christmas. She studied the California missions in grade school, and then-- poof-- the Spanish disappeared from social studies books without a trace. Even as a child, Lille wondered why-- if they had once had the power to name nearly everything, including the ocean-- almost no one with a Spanish surname lived in her neighborhood, and they were definitely not in-charge. If droves of Americans couldn’t wait to experience the California dream, why did the Spanish and Mexican people go away? Did they decide they didn’t like California? When she moved to New Mexico in the 1990’s Lille became fascinated by its history and culture and committed to answering the questions from her childhood. Since that time, she has earned master’s degrees in English/Professional Writing and Spanish/Southwest Studies at the University of New Mexico. Currently, Lille is completing her PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English through the University of Arizona, writing her dissertation on how public discourse of the mid-nineteenth century worked on behalf of the US to colonize the West and Southwest.
Marinella Lentis
Marinella Lentis is a Ph.D. candidate in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her research interests include history of American Indian education, art, material culture, and representation in the media. Born and raised in Forlì, Italy, she received a bachelor’s degree in English and American Studies from the University of Bologna. She came to the U.S. in 2001 to teach Italian at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and moved to Tucson in 2004 to pursue a graduate degree in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona. Marinella is currently working on her dissertation which explores art education in federal boarding schools, particularly at the Albuquerque Indian School and Sherman Institute.
Michael J. Alarid
Michael J. Alarid is a Ph.D. Candidate at The Ohio State University. Originally from Rancho Cucamonga, California, Michael holds a B.A. in History from the University of Oregon and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Dallas. Michael has presented papers at the Fray Angelico Chavez Library, the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, and the Ohio Academy of History Conference. His awards include the Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship from The Ohio State Graduate School, Henry H. Simms and Breadly R. Kastan Awards from the Department of History at The Ohio State University, The Gerald L. Davis Fund Travel Award from the American Folklore Society, and the University Enrichment Fellowship from the College of the Humanities at The Ohio State University. His article, “They Came From the East: Importing Homicide, Violence, and Misconceptions of Soft Justice into Early Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1847-53,” forthcoming in 2010, will appear in, All Trails Lead to Santa Fe: An Anthology, a scholarly compilation of primary research based papers commemorating the 400 year anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe. Michael’s dissertation, Caudillo Justice: Intercultural conflict and social change in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1847-53, utilizes the framework of caudillismo to examine criminality and institutions of social control from 1847-53 in New Mexico Territory. Michael Alarid contends that caudillismo is the apparatus of power that shapes New Mexican social history, a system he defines as a highly regionalized power structure based on large landholding strongmen who utilize their vast kinship networks and wealth to dictate policy, provide protection, and exploit and intimidate local populations with the goal of maintaining authority. Focusing primarily on Santa Fe, Michael’s study employs an extensive assortment of published and unpublished materials, such as surviving criminal court records, newspaper accounts, and memoirs, to demonstrate how violence, intergroup conflict, and apparatus’ of social control furthered traditional Mexican style caudillismo in the new evolving state. Simultaneously, his project illuminates how changes in the language of government, taxation, and legal codices impacted the manner in which Nuevo Mexicanos, Anglo Americans, and Native Americans interacted and restructured their new realities.
Patricia Westlake
Patricia Westlake is a Graduate Student at Western Washington University, studying Archives and Records Management. Her focus has been on American Jewish History and Archival Management. She has presented two previous papers at the Phi Alpha Theta Conferences, one that was nominated for best Graduate Paper in 2008. She was previously nominated for the Earl Haley Writing Award from the University of Washington-Tacoma. Her larger thesis will incorporate ideas of commemoration of Jewish history in New Mexico such as the Montefiore Cemetery, Pioneer Jewish Exhibit, and other memorials. Her goal is to continue her study of American Jewish history in the West.
Ronald Maestas
Ronald W. Maestas, a former Dean and Professor at New Mexico Highlands University earned Ed.D. degree from Arizona State University; his bachelor’s and master’s degree in business was earned at Adams State College; he has completed post-doctoral work at the University of Minnesota and Indiana University in Management Information Systems. He brings considerable experience in working with Native American students as advisor and mentor and a profound respect and need for Native-American education and professional development. He has experience at fund raising and program development having written successful proposals for Native American Scholars and Hispanic and Native American Economic Development. He has s comprehensive genealogy database (85,000 names) on the southwest. He has published several articles on genealogy in La Herencia and the Colorado Genealogy Society. The New Mexico Genealogy Association awarded him the PrimerasFamilias certificate for his work. He has self-published over 50 volumes on various prominent families in New Mexico and Colorado to include: Juan Mestas de Peralta, Lucas de Vigil, Juan Gomez del Castillo, Lucero de Godoy, Antonio &LucrecioMuniz, Bartolome de Montoya, YvonGrolet, Francisco Ruiz de Valdes, Juan DeigoRomero, Francisco Esteban Salazar, Silvestre Trujillo, Predro del Canto, Lucas de Colon, Bernardo Ballejos, Pedro Alonso Maese, Juan Tenorio de Alba, and Hernan Martin de Monroy, Juan Bartolome “Tome” Dominguez, Francisco de Mendoza, Egas Moniz, Goncalo Aires Ferreira, Lugarda Mestas. His research consists of six hundred years of ancestors/descendants. He is the co-author of six textbooks on Microsoft Windows to include 3.0, 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, 2000, Microsoft Office 95 and Office 98.
2007-2008
Brandon Brant Morgan
Danette Leavitt Turner
David Correia, Ph.D.
David Correia received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Kentucky. His research focus is on environmental history and politics, political ecology, rural development in New Mexico and the State. Currently he is working on a book project examining social movements and state violence in New Mexico.
Diana Rico
Diana Rico spent the first 25 years of her writing career based in Los Angeles, reporting on art and entertainment for international periodicals (ARTnews, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ) and producing/writing TV documentaries on pop-cultural subjects, such as Jane Fonda and John Lennon. She is the former Art Writer of the L.A. Daily News, the former Editor-in-Chief of International Documentary magazine, and the author of the critically acclaimed book “Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs” (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). In 2005 she unhooked the vast swath of Velcro that had held her in the City of Angels and became a happily wandering pilgrim, dividing her time primarily between Taos, New Mexico, and Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Simultaneously her writing took a powerful turn toward the personal and literary. She is currently at work on an experimental novel about the late Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta and on a series of memoir-essays about her life as an accidental ex-pat in Guatemala.
Frederico Antonio Reade Jr., Ph.D.
Federico Antonio Reade Jr. is descendent of one of the soldiers of the First California Column that arrived, on the eve of the American Civil War in 1860, to the New Mexico territories. His great grandfather was among the first to establish a ranch in Deming, New Mexico in the 1870s. Federico’s great grandmother was a Navajo captive that was traded to a family from San Geronimo, New Mexico outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico. He grew up and received his education in Albuquerque from elementary to his PhD in Educational thought and Sociocultural Studies—Chicano Studies. A lifelong resident of Albuquerque Federico produces documentaries on Chicano Studies and teaches at Central New Mexico Community College.
Jack Clark Robinson
Jack Clark Robinson is a Franciscan friar of Our Lady of Guadalupe Province, headquartered in Albuquerque. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His interest in New Mexico history began when he was first stationed as a friar in the Land of Enchantment in 1981 and has continued unabated since. Jack was the first Franicscan ever ordained a priest in one of the State's Native American pueblos when he was ordained at Jemez in 1986. He has served as a pastoral minister in the Pueblos of Jemez, Zia, Santa Ana, Cochiti, Santo Domingo and San Felipe, as well as at Holy Family Parish in Albuquerque. He has served as a director of formation programs for men joining Guadalupe Province and taught in Franiciscan formation programs in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
James Dory-Garduno
James Dory-Garduño is a JD candidate at the University of New Mexico School of Law (2009). He also holds the Chacón fellowship at the Center for Southwest Research (2008-09), where he is arranging the papers of Ward Alan Minge and Eleanor Adams. He earned a master's degree in history from Saint Louis University (2002) and a bachelor's degree in history and English from the University of New Mexico (2000). His main research interests are the history of colonial New Mexico, medieval Castile, paleography, and diplomatics.
Jared Vanderpool
Jennifer Denetdale
Jennifer Nez Denetdale is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and life long resident of Tohatchi, New Mexico. An associate professor of history at Northern Arizona University, she is the author of Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita (University of Arizona Press, 2007) and a book for young adults, The Long Walk: The Forced Navajo Exile (Chelsea House Publishers, 2008). Before moving to the Northern Arizona University, she was on the history faculty at the University of New Mexico. She teaches courses on Native American and Navajo history, Native American women, oral history, and women in the U.S. West. A recipient of several fellowships, including the School of Advanced Research’s Katrin H. Lamon and Brigham Young University’s John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty fellowships, Professor Denetdale is currently working on a history of Navajo women. Her research fellowship with the New Mexico Office of the State Historian will be used to investigate how Navajo women’s traditional roles have been transformed by American federal Indian policies that dictated Navajo practices for marriage, family, sexuality, and reproductive methods. Her examination includes how women’s status shifted with the establishment of the modern Navajo government and how gender intersects with the politics of tradition.
Kelley R. Ridings
Kelley R. Ridings is an accomplished educator with twenty years combined of professional experience in school administration and teaching. He has worked for the last twelve school years for the Truth or Consequences (New Mexico) Municipal School District. His high school teaching career includes classes in all areas of social studies and English. Currently, he is the principal for Sierra Elementary Complex, and he was an alternative high school principal before that. He also has worked for the last twelve years as an adjutant professor for Western New Mexico University, teaching courses in world civilization, U.S. history, Holocaust history, New Mexico history, and the local history of Sierra County, New Mexico. Throughout his career, his teaching positions have taken him to jobs in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Ridings’ academic preparation and contributions include having a Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education and a Master of Arts degree in history. He is currently nearing completion of a Ph. D. in educational management and development, which he expects to complete in 2008. He actively conducts research in the field of educational administration where his current interest is at-risk students and the factors that impact their educational success. He has presented his research findings in several national and international conferences and forums. He is also interested in the educational change process and has conducted empirical research in that area. In the field of history, Ridings has done original research about the American involvement in the Mexican Revolution, and he co-authored a history of the Doña Ana Arts Council. His Fellowship project that was accepted by the Office of the State Historian is to research the history of Sierra County, will eventually become a book. Ridings is an active member of the Sierra County Historical Society (SCHS), and the proceeds from the book about Sierra County will be used to benefit SCHS. Ridings is a long-time resident of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, having grown up there and is now raising his family there. He has one son and has raised another boy as well.
Lorena Oropeza, Ph.D.
Melina V. Vizcaíno
Molly Charlyn Padgett
Nancy Owen Lewis, Ph.D
Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Ph.D
Priscilla Solis Ybarra is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. She is currently working on her book, an environmental literary history that focuses on Mexican American and Chicana/o literature from 1848 to the present, which will be the first book-length project of its kind. Ms. Ybarra’s article “Lo que quiero es tierra: Longing and Belonging in Cherríe Moraga’s Ecological Vision” was published in the 2004 collection New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. She also has a co-authored article forthcoming in the MLA collection Teaching North American Environmental Literature. Dr. Ybarra has presented her research at national and international conferences, including the Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Western Literature Association, Congreso Internacional de Literatura Chicana, and two conferences organized by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She has taught courses for the Departments of English at Rice University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and for American Studies at Yale University. She currently co-coordinates a new graduate program on Literature, Social Justice, and Environment in the Department of English at Texas Tech.
Robert Castro, Ph.D.
Robert F. Castro is an Assistant Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the California State University, Fullerton. He holds a BA in Criminology, Law & Society from U.C. Irvine. A Ph.D., in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law where he was in the inaugural class of the Program in Public Interest Law & Policy (PILP). He is a former Gilder-Lehrman Postdoctoral Fellow in Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance from Yale University (2006). His work on law, race and captive-taking has been published in academic journals like the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Law Raza Law Review (U.C. Berkeley) and Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave & Post-Slave Studies. The research for this article was supported by a Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship from the Office of the New Mexico State Historian (June 2008), a John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Research Award from Brigham Young University, and a Cal State University Jr. Faculty Research Award from CSU-Fullerton. Recently, he was honored to be invited to be an Amicus Historian of Record in a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief to defend the right of plaintiff’s to bring retaliation claims for race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981.
Rosina Lozano
Rosina Lozano completed her BA in History from Stanford University where she wrote an honors thesis entitled, "The Struggle for Inclusion: A Study of the Community Service Organization in East Los Angeles, 1947-1951." She continued her education at Harvard University's School of Education, where she earned an EdM in Teaching and Curriculum, and subsequently taught high school for three years. Rosina is currently working on her dissertation that is tentatively titled "La Sangre del Espíritu: The Spanish Language's Impact on U.S. Politics and Identity, 1848-1952." Her research explores how language politics impacts citizenship, racialization, and identity in the Chicano/Latino communities of California and New Mexico. Her dissertation committee includes George Sánchez, Bill Deverell, and Roberto Lint-Sagarena.
Ruth Michelle Quintana
Sabrina Sanchez
Sabrina Sanchez is a doctoral candidate in the History department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and disability in global and domestic imperial spaces. She works closely with U.C. Santa Cruz's undergraduates as a Teaching Assistant for courses in U.S. and Latin American history, and she has written and facilitated workshops on teaching for her university's new Graduate Student Teaching Assistants. Sabrina is currently designing a course to introduce undergraduates to the History of Gender and Sexuality in the post-Reconstruction U.S.
Todd Meyers
Traci Brynne Voyles
Traci is a PhD candidate completing her doctoral dissertation in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California-San Diego. As a writer, researcher, and teacher, her career engages activist-academic interventions in social inequality and environmental injustice. Her primary interests as a scholar revolve around the interplay of racialization, gender, and sexuality with landscape, space and geography, environmental justice, cultural productions, militarization, and post/coloniality. Her dissertation explores the socially constructed environments of the US southwest, looking specifically at how those environments became militarized and industrialized during World War II, the Cold War, and continuing through the present.
2006-2007
Diane Rico
independent scholar, writer and producer: Cosmic Outlaws at the Mud Palace and other Tales of the Counter Cultural Revolution in New Mexico.
Lena McQuade
Maria Mondragon-Valdez, Ph.D.
Maria Mondragon-Valdez is an independent scholar, for her research on the New Mexico segment of the Sangre de Cristo land grant, especially looking at incorporated real-estate brokers and a local land grant ring as well as resident farmers, and wage laborers in their struggle to control the land grant.
Mark Schiller
Melissa Rhode
Melissa Rohde received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history. Her interests center around the history of race, gender, colonialism, and labor in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her dissertation, “Working America’s Enchanted Lands: Native American Tourism Labor, Identity, and Politics, 1880-1940,” looks at the cultural and economic effects of tourism work among Anishinaabeg in northern Wisconsin and the northern Pueblos in New Mexico. While at the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, she will be researching materials related to the development of the New Mexico tourism industry, including events such as the Santa Fe Fiesta and the Fred Harvey Company Indian Detours, as well as collections related to the histories of the eight northern pueblos.
Nancy Owen Lewis, Ph.D.
Patricia Trujillo
Peter Nabokov, Ph.D.
Anthropologist and writer, Peter Nabokov has conducted ethnographic and ethno-historical research with Native American communities throughout North America. He is the author of numerous articles and reports and has published eight books, including Indian Running, Native American Testimony: From Prophecy to the Present 1442 - 1992, and Native American Architecture. In 1990-91, he received an Indo-U.S. Sub-commission Fellowship to study in South India. Nabokov recently served on the Anthropology faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is continuing his research on the vernacular architecture of South India as well as his American Indian studies in the Plains, California, and the Southwest. Currently, Nabokov is completing two books on the relationship between American Indians and Yellowstone National Park, a third trade book on American Indian sacred geography, and his new book, A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History was recently published. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Goddard College; B.S., Columbia University.
Roland Rodriguez
Roland Rodríguez received his MA in Art History at the University of New Mexico, specializing in the Art of the Americas. His thesis, The Emperor's New Cloak: The Maximilian Sarape, History, Nomenclature, and the Dealer as Designator, investigated a particular type of Mexican sarape, or poncho, purported to have been used by, and produced during the reign of, the Archduke Maximilian who was installed as Mexico's emperor during the French Intervention (1864-1867). Rodríguez is currently a PhD candidate in the Borderlands History program at the University of Texas at El Paso. His work investigates the Mexican Reform- and Intervention-era chinacos, or horsemen/soldiers, whose images are abundantly evident in the pictorial record of Mexico's nineteenth-century, but whose lived experience, including their participation in war, cattle grazing, and the events of the charreada, has never been fully examined. Rodríguez, whose prime focus is Mexico in the nineteenth-century, has interests in charreria, the Mexican textile industry, and the significance of male costuming, all key areas of his research of the period.
Ryan Edgington
Ryan Edgington is a Ph.D candidate in the department of history at Temple University. He studies the interaction between humans and the nonhuman natural world in North America and the history of the North American West. Ryan also holds a B.A and M.A. in history from the University of New Mexico. His dissertation explores the confrontation between ranchers and the national security state in south-central New Mexico during the Cold War Period. Ryan is the recent recipient of a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation practicum grant for his work on public history and the environmental history of Philadelphia. During the summer of 2006, he also received a travel and research grant from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. During the Fall 2007 semester he will teach environmental history and the history of the North American West at Temple.
Sherry Robinson
Sherry Robinson is a long-time New Mexico journalist and author. Her book Apache Voices, published by the University of New Mexico Press, is based on the work of historian Eve Ball, author of In The Days of Victorio and Indeh. Apache Voices adds new information to the record and re-examines the work of Ball. She is now at work on a book about the Lipan Apaches. Robinson is also the author of a history and outdoor guide, El Malpais, Mt. Taylor and the Zuni Mountains. With David Durgin she wrote Entrepreneur to Investor The Hard Way, published by Sunstone Press. Robinson began her career in 1975 as the Navajo Nation stringer for the Gallup Independent. She’s worked for newspapers and television and was also science writer at the University of New Mexico, editing the award-winning research magazine, Quantum. In 1997 she received a Woman on the Move award from the YWCA in Albuquerque. She was named Woman of Achievement in 1980 by New Mexico Press Women. In 2003 she was an Honorary Commander at Kirtland Air Force Base. She has won writing awards from ten communications organizations. Robinson is a Colorado native who has lived in New Mexico since 1975 and is a graduate of the University of New Mexico.
Sterling Fluharty
Sterling Fluharty is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Oklahoma. His dissertation about the Native American student-youth movement of the Sixties. He is a part-time instructor for UNM and NMSU.
2005-2006
Denise Holladay Damico
Hillah Culman
Hillah Culman is a graduate student in the Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Department, Texas Tech University: The German Fascination With And Romanticizing Notions About New Mexico In The 18th and 19th Centuries.
Kristine Courtial
Mark Schiller
Stephen Hussman
Associate Professor and Department Head for Archives and Special Collections, New Mexico State University: The Life of Hiram Hadley (1833-1922).