People
Fellows 2008-2009
Visiting Research Fellows
Nancy Appelbaum, Binghamton University
Mapping the “Country of Regions:” Agustín Codazzi and the Nineteenth-Century Colombian Chorographic Commission
Ruben Flores, University of Kansas
Forging an American Pluralism: The Mexican Revolution and American Civil Rights
David Kinkela, Suny-Fredonia
The Dilemmas of Regulation: DDT and American Environmentalism in the Global Context, 1943-1982
James Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Domingos Álvares and the Politics of Public Healing in the Atlantic World
Ebru Turan, Fordham University
The Sultan’s Favorite: Ibrahim Pasha (1523-1536) and the Making of Ottoman Universal Sovereignty in the Renaissance
Internal Research Fellows
Laurie Green
From Memphis and Mississippi to Biafra and Back: Racializing Hunger and Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Frank Guridy
Diaspora in Action: Afro-Cubans and African-Americans in the U.S.-Caribbean World
Anne Martinez
Bordering on the Sacred: Race and Religion in U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1910-1929
Tracie Matysik
Spinoza Matters: Pantheism, Materialism, and Alternative Enlightenment Legacies in Nineteenth Century Europe
Mark Metzler
Dynamic Margins of Globalization: Reconsidering the First “Great Depression,” 1873-1896
Robert Olwell
Imaginary Kingdoms: Science, Speculation and Empire in British Florida, 1763-1784
Doctoral Research Fellows
Summer 2008
- Paul Conrad, Captive Fates: Nation-building, Indian Displacement, and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1650-1886
- Rob Holmes, Radium Medicine in America from the Turn of the Century through the late-1950s
- Gail Hook, Imperial Themes and British Authority in Ottoman Cyprus, 1878-1925
- Kelli Mosteller, The Cultural Politics of Land: Allotment Among the Potawatomi, Chickasaw, and Kiowa in Indian Territory, 1860-1900
2008-09
- Christopher Dietrich, Oil, Decolonization, and the Cold War: United States Foreign Relations and the Domestic Energy Debates, 1967-1976
- Shennette Garratt, The Invincible Daughters of Commerce: Black Women Entrepreneurs and the Entrepreneurial Talented Tenth in the New South, 1890s to 1930s
- Jesse Cromwell, The Social History of Contraband Trade in the Ports of Late-Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth Century New Granada
Invited Research Scholars
The Institute welcomes all historians who plan to visit Austin for an extended period during the academic year to participate in the community of the Institute as invited research scholars. Please contact the Institute's Director, Julie Hardwick, at historyinstitute@austin.utexas.edu.
Spring 2008
- Guillaume Boccara, Institute for Archeological, colonial and post-dictatorship Chile and Argentina
- Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney, race and the Atlantic world
2008-09
- Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, the struggle for the South Atlantic in the late sixteenth century.
- William D. Phillips, University of Minnesota, Europeans and the non-European world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Christophe Verbruggen, Ghent University, Transnational group formation of intellectuals, 1890-1930
Spring 2009
- Ahmed Azfar Moin, PhD candidate University of Michigan, Messianism and Kingship: Islam and the Political imagination of early Modern India and Iran
