Scholars
2007-2008
Danette Leavitt Turner
Jared Vanderpool
Lorena Oropeza, Ph.D
Melina V. Vizcaíno
Molly Charlyn Padgett
Nancy Owen Lewis, Ph.D
Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Ph.D
Ruth Michelle Quintana
Todd Meyers
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 Rohde
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.
Dr. Peter Nabokov, UCLA professor of world arts and culture, anthropologist and writer, for his work on Acoma Pueblo and the contextual economic and multi-cultural history of western New Mexico
Roland Rodriguez
MA candidate in Art History at the University of New Mexico, for his work on identifying trade, commerce, and the location of proprietors or manufacturers of vaquero/charo dress and accessory including the Mexican sarapes used in New Mexico during the 19th century;
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
Sterling Fluharty
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).