Editorial Board for the Journal of Texas History

  • Benjamin H. Johnson, Co-Editor

    Ben is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.  He is the author of four books, including Revolution in Texas (2003) and Texas: An American History (coming in 2025). Johnson is a co-founder of “Refusing to Forget”, a public history project devoted to commemorating the legacies of the border violence of the 1910.  He has served as co-editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, currently co-edits the Weber Series in New Borderlands History at the University of North Carolina Press and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Ben is Co-Editor of the JTxH.

  • Rebecca Sharpless, Co-Editor

    Rebecca is a professor of history at Texas Christian University, teaching about Texas and the South, particularly women, work, and food. Her books include Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms (1999); Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South (2010); and Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South (2022). Her current project is “People of the Wheat: Commodity and Culture in North Texas.” Sharpless earned her BA and MA from Baylor and her PhD from Emory University. Rebecca is Co-Editor of the JTxH.

  • Felipe Hinojosa, Review Editor

    Felipe is the John and Nancy Jackson Endowed Chair in Latin America & Professor of History at Baylor University. He is the author of two award winning books: Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) and Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio (UT Press, 2021). He is currently working on a book on the Latino civil rights movement and American democracy in the twentieth century Felipe is the Review Editor for the JTxH.

  • Sandra I. Enríquez, Public History Editor

    Sandra is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Public History Emphasis at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She is a social historian of modern United States history with research and teaching interests in Chicanx and Latinx history, urban history, borderlands, social movements, and public history. She is the author of the forthcoming book ¡El Barrio No Se Vende!: Grassroots Activism and Revitalization in El Paso (University of Texas Press). Sandra has co-curated and collaborated on public history initiatives in Texas and the Kansas City region that highlight the histories of Latinx and Black communities.

  • Albert S. Broussard

    Al is professor of history at Texas A&M University. Professor Broussard’s books include Expectations of Equality: A History of Black Westerners (2012), African American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963 (1998), and Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 (1993). He is past president of the Oral History Association and of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Broussard is currently writing a history of racial activism and civil rights in the American West from World War II to the present. Al is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Charlotte M. Canning

    Charlotte is the Frank C. Erwin Jr., Centennial Professor in Drama at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Theatre & the USA (Methuen, 2023), On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism (Palgrave, 2015) winner of the Joe A. Calloway Prize, Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (Iowa, 2010), The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (Iowa, 2005) recipient of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, and Feminist Theaters In The USA: Staging Women's Experience (Routledge, 1996). She is the past editor of Theatre Research International. Her op-eds have appeared in The Houston Chronicle, the Washington Post, The Conversation, and other publications. Charlotte is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Bobby Cervantes

    Bobby is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a scholar of poverty in the modern United States who focuses on public policy, political economy, and transnational migration. He is currently writing Las Colonias: An American History, exploring the development of peri-urban Latino communities in the Texas-Mexico borderlands where nearly a million people live in one the greatest concentrations of American poverty. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Kansas and his B.A. in Government and B.J. in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Bobby is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Paul Conrad

    Paul is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (Penn Press, 2021), which received awards from the OAH, WHA, and the Historical Society of New Mexico. His current project focuses on the role Indigenous survivors of the U.S. boarding school system played within their communities during the first half of the twentieth century. Paul is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Frank de la Teja

    Jesús F. “Frank” de la Teja is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University, where he also served as director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest. He has published extensively on Spanish, Mexican, and Republic-era Texas. For seventeen years Frank served as book review editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and for fifteen years was managing editor of Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture. He has been a manuscript reviewer for numerous presses and journals. Frank is member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • George T. Díaz

    George serves as an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.  He is the author of Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande (University of Texas Press, 2015), and co-editor of the collection Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America (University of Texas Press, 2020).  His current book project is, Mañana Land: Life and Death in a Mexican Prison in Texas. George is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Sam W. Haynes

    Sam is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies. His most recent book, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas, was published by Basic Books in 2022. He is currently working on a digital humanities project, “Texas in Turmoil: Mapping Interethnic Violence, 1821-1879.”Sam is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Char Miller

    Char taught at Trinity University for 26 years and is currently the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College. He is author of West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement, San Antonio: A Tricentennial History, On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio, and Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas. Forthcoming is the co-edited Nature and Place in the Lone Star State, which will be the inaugural volume in TTU Press’s new series, Environmental Histories of Texas and for which Miller is editor.

  • Joseph Locke

    Joseph is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Rice University. His first book, Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He also co-created The American Yawp (americanyawp.com), an open history textbook published in print by Stanford University Press in 2019. Joseph is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Carl Moneyhon

    Carl is a specialist in the history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction who holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. He has published extensively in this field with studies on Texas that include  The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas (2021), George T. Ruby: Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas (2020), Edmund J. Davis: Civil War General, Republican Leader Reconstruction Governor (2010), Texas after the Civil War (2004), Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of the Civil War in Texas (1998), and Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (1980). Carl is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Wesley G. Phelps

    Wesley is an associate professor of history at the University of North Texas and the author of Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement, which won the Tullis Prize for the best book on Texas History from the Texas State Historical Association in 2024. He is also the creator of Queering the Lone Star State, a podcast series about the historic struggle for queer equality in Texas. He teaches courses on recent US history and queer history. Wesley is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Uzma Quraishi

    Uzma is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. A historian of the twentieth-century United States, she specializes in Asian migrations, race and place, and the Cold War. Her work includes the award-winning book, Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War. She is a former fellow of the Clements Center at SMU and the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School. Currently, she is working on a diplomatic history of U.S. Cold War propaganda in South Asia, and a study of immigrant neighborhoods in the United States. Uzma is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Tim Seiter

    Tim is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Tyler. He researches colonial and Native Texas and is putting the finishing touches on his first book, Wrangling Pelicans (University of Texas Press), which describes life in eighteenth-century Spanish Texas. Dr. Seiter is now writing a general history of the Karankawa peoples of the Texas Gulf entitled “Persistent Peoples.” After spending his day sufficiently clanking on the computer, Dr. Seiter enjoys gardening and rock climbing. Tim is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Tyina Steptoe

    Tyina is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is the author of the award-winning book, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City  (University of California Press, 2016), and the edited volume, Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle (Library of America, 2024). Her writing has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, TIME, The Denver Post, The Conversation, and other publications. She is also a DJ on Tucson community radio station KXCI. Tyina is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board. Tyina is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

  • Whitney Nell Stewart

    Whitney is an associate professor of history and faculty of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. Author of the award-winning This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations (UNC Press, 2023), she also publishes in outlets ranging from the Journal of the Early Republic to Smithsonian Magazine. A passionate public historian, Stewart consults with groups like the National Park Service and TxDOT. Whitney is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.