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UH Grad Students Earn Prestigious Fellowships
Posted: August 22, 2005
The University of Houston Department of History is pleased to announce that three of its graduate students have been recognized with nationally competitive fellowships.
The Smithsonian Institution has awarded TRINIDAD GONZALES, a doctoral candidate at UH a fellowship from its “Latino Studies Fellowship Program” from June 2005 to May 2006. The fellowship allows doctorial candidates to use Smithsonian resources/archives related to Latina/o topics. Besides utilizing Smithsonian resources/archives in Washington D.C., the fellowship facilitates the interaction between fellows and Smithsonian researchers, which helps further the conceptualization process for the fellow’s research. Trinidad’s dissertation, “The World of México Texanos, Mexicanos and México Americanos: Colonization and the Construction of Transnational and United States Nationalist Identities in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1900-1930”, examines intra-ethnic relations between México Texanos, Mexicanos and México Americanos during a time when the ethnic Mexican community suffered a socio-economic and political decline. This dissertation helps provide the historical background for answering current questions concerning internal ethnic Mexican divisions and loyalty to the United States as well as understanding the processes of transnational and nationalist identity formation that Latina/o Studies presently engages. Trinidad’s advisor is Professor Guadalupe San Miguel.
SONIA HERNANDEZ, a doctoral candidate under the direction of John Mason Hart, will be the Northeastern Consortium for Faculty Diversity Visiting Dissertation Scholar. Several universities and colleges participate in this program, including Northeastern University where Sonia will spend a year completing her dissertation. The predoctoral fellowship includes a $25,000 salary, health benefits, an office, library privileges, and no teaching responsibilities. Sonia also will have the opportunity to present her work-in-progress in two campus-wide presentations during the 2005-2006 academic year. Using documents from various Mexican and US archives, Sonia’s dissertation, “Mexicanas and Mexicanos in a Transitional Borderland, 1880-1940,” examines how industrialization in northeastern Mexico transformed gender, family, and labor relations. It was in this rapidly changing society that men and women actively negotiated, resisted, and adapted to their new environment. They consciously made decisions to use ideas of cooperativismo, formed unions, petitioned local, state, and national authorities, recreated familial environments, and engaged in protests and rebellions to survive.
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