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Clements Center for Southwest Studies Fellows for 2025-2026

Leonard V. Smith
Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
PhD, History, Columbia University, 1990
Frederick B. Artz Professor of History
“Liberalism and Law in Texas and French Algeria in the Nineteenth Century"


Cristina Urias-Espinoza 
Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
PhD, The University of Arizona, 2022
Assistant Professor of History, Arkansas State University, Campus Queretaro                                                                                                                       "The Mexican West: Land Speculation and the U.S. Colonization of Northwest Mexico, 1844-1936"

Cori L. Simon
David J. Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma
“Shadowland: Indian Territory's Contested Past and Uncertain Future, 1800-1910"

Adrian Chavana
Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
PhD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University
“Becoming Gente de Razon: The San Antonio Mission Indians and their Descendants”