Dr. Christina Villarreal
Assistant Professor of History
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- Dr. Christina Villarreal is an Assistant Professor of History at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas, El Paso. She received her doctorate from The Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Texas at Austin, where she studied Latin American history and the Spanish Borderlands. Her research focuses on the Texas-Louisiana borderlands, early America, fugitives from slavery, desertion, and sanctuary. Dr. Villarreal’s work has received support from the Fulbright Program, Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, SSRC-Mellon Mays Program, and the E.D. Farmer International Fellowship. Currently, Villarreal is a 2021-2022 Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é where she is working on a manuscript entitled “Resisting Colonial Subjugation: Sanctuary, Asylum, and Refuge in the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1714-1803.”
Classes Taught:
- Texas History