Research and Creative Fellows

2024-2025

Amanda Breitbach. Stephen F. Austin State University. “Oil and Water.”

George T. Díaz. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “Mañana Land: Life and Death in a Mexican Prison in Texas.”

Randy Gonzales. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “Filipino Louisiana Foodways Oral History Project.” Dr. Gonzales won the 2024 Summerlee Prize—Creative for his book of poetry Settling St. Malo (2023).

Karla A. Lira. University of Houston. “For the City: Blacks & Latinx University of Houston Athletes.”

Aaron Moulton. Stephen F. Austin State University. “The ‘Communist Hand’ in Cuba and Birmingham.”

Demetrius W. Pearson. University of Houston. “Black Salt-Grass Rodeo Cowboys.”

A. J. Perez. Pennsylvania State University. “Yucatán, Texas, and the Limits of US Expansionism, 1821-1860.”

Halee R. Robinson. Princeton University. “Race, Community, and Freedom in the Texas Penal System, 1865–1912.”

Ann Ngoc Tran. University of Southern California. “The Ark is Already Gone: A History of Boat Refugee Non-Arrival.”

2023-2024

Noah Devros. University of Southern Mississippi. "Folk Naming of Graptemys pearlenis."

Cassandre Durso. Lamar University. "Love in Lavender in Southeast Texas."

Isabel Machado. Journal of Festival Studies. "Queens of the South."

Kathy McCarthy. University of Texas at Austin. "My Name Is Neches."

Whitney Stewart. University of Texas at Dallas. "History-Making at Varner-Hogg Plantation."

John Winters. University of Southern Mississippi. "Memories of Indigenous Removal."

Vidisha Worley. Lamar University. "Lamar University Oral History Project." Worley has launched the "100 Years of Cardinal Pride Oral History Project" webpage (click here). She has also given several presentations about her project including at the East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, October 2023.

2022-2023

Rachel Stiles. Lamar University. "The Louisiana Sound in Southeast Texas." Stiles presented "Swamp Pop" for the Center for History and Culture at the McFaddin-Ward House Museum and interviewed with KVLU's Bayoulands in October 2023.

Amy E. Earhart. Texas A&M University. "The Millican Massacre." Earhart maintains the website Millican Massacre, 1868. Follow this [link].

Bryant Etheridge. Bridgewater State University. "Houston and the Great Compression."

Keagan LeJeune. McNeese State University. "Naming the Chenier Plain." LeJeune published Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana (University Press of Mississippi, 2023) which won the 2024 Summerlee Book Prize-Nonfiction. He also gave a talk for the Center for History and Culture at Lamar University in November 2023.

Timothy F. Seiter. Southern Methodist University. "Karankawa Revival." Seiter interviewed with KVLU's Bayoulands in July 2022 and presented "The Revival of Extinct Native Cultures--The Karankawa" for the Center for History and Culture at the McFaddin-Ward House Museum in October 2022. Seiter joins the History Department at the University of Texas at Tyler as assistant professor in Fall 2024.

Railey Tassin. Texas State University. "Spindletop Commemoration."

2021-2022

Ronald Davis. University of Texas at Austin. "Enslaved and Free Black Cowboys in Texas, 1840-1885."

Andrew Favors and Christina Segura. Lamar University. "Lived Experiences of Southeast Texas Survivors of Multiple Disasters." Segura presented at Lamar University's Undergraduate Research Expo in April 2021.

Jennifer Levin. University of Virginia. "Mobile in the Atlantic World."

2020-2021

Laura Cochrane. Middle Tennessee State University. "The Art and Architecture of Temple Emanuel, Beaumont, Texas." Cochrane presented for the Center for History and Culture at the McFaddin-Ward House Museum and interviewed with KVLU's Bayoulands in November 2021.

Katherine Hoerth. Lamar University. "Eco-Poetry of the Texas Gulf Coast." Hoerth edited Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry of the Texas Gulf Coast (Lamar University Literary Press, 2020).

Daryl Meador. New York University. "Waltz of the Oil Field." Meador published "Waltz of the Oil Field: The Politics of Voice in Texas Petro-media," Feminist Media Histories, 6 (April 2020): 148-175.

Eric Rhodes. University of Angers. "The Rust Belt of the Sun Belt."

Todd Romero. University of Houston. "Resilient Houston Project." Romero maintains the website Resilient Houston: Documenting Hurricane Harvey. Follow this [link]

Lisa Sandlin. Santa Fe, New Mexico. "The People Store."

2018-2019

Miguel Chavez. Lamar University. "Beaumont Latino/a Oral History Project."

Mahmoud Salimi. Lamar University. "Boom Days."

2017-2018

Penny Clark. Lamar University. "The Civil War Diaries of Noveline Baldwin."

Marilyn Manson-Hayes. Beaumont, Texas. "1930s Beaumont Voices." Manson-Haynes gave a multimedia presentation for the Center for History and Culture at Lamar University in April 2018.

Bryan Proksch. Lamar University. "Magnolia Brass Band Festival." Proksch conducted a concert at the Boomtown Museum in March 2018 and gave the Distinguished Faculty Lecture "Music and Oil in Beaumont" at Lamar University in November 2019.