Center for the Study of the Southwest

07/15/2025

Check out what Dr. Samuel Garcia Jr., friend and a previous Center for the Study of the Southwest Editorial Fellow, has been up to!

Creative BITS: Voices of a New Generation is a powerful anthology of student writing inspired by the original Creative Bits volumes published at Mercedes Hig...

03/31/2025

The Center for the Study of the Southwest is hosting a discussion with film producer and director Lois Lipman at 2:00 in Brazos Hall on Tuesday the First of April.

The Center for the Study of the Southwest is also co-sponsoring a discussion of the full movie at the Price Center, 222 W. San Antonio, San Marcos, TX

First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold story of thousands of American citizens who were radiated by their own government. Never warned, acknowledged, or compensated, the New Mexico Downwinders have silently suffered generations of cancers.

First We Bombed New Mexico follows Tina Cordova, a dynamic Latina business woman and cancer survivor, who has catalyzed a grassroots movement in south-central New Mexico to seek justice for the Native and Latinx communities who have suffered from the 1945 Trinity Test.

Meet organizer Tina Cordova and Filmmaker Lois Lipman

register at this link for zoom:
https://www.txst.edu/cssw/news-events/event-archive/2025/lipman-first-we-bombed-nm.html

10/07/2024

Museum Studies Job - History, Texas State University.

ssistant Professor of Museum Studies and History (Tenure Line)
Job Posting Number 2025026TTL
Job Location San Marcos
Department History
Position Description
The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of museum studies and history (regional specialization open). The successful candidate will contribute to a thriving Public History Concentration within the Master’s Program in History. They will be prepared to teach specialized graduate and undergraduate courses on the theory and practice of public history in museums and to direct graduate theses and comprehensive exams. We seek a colleague interested in collaborating with cultural institutions and engaging communities across and outside the university. Active participation in departmental programs, service, and governance will be expected of the successful candidate.

Appointment date is Fall 2025. Salary is commensurate with experience and all positions are subject to availability of funds.
Required Qualifications
A PhD in History or related field (such as American Studies, Museum Studies, Public History, Cultural Studies, Art History) is required by the time of appointment.
Preferred Qualifications
Preference will be given to candidates with practical experience working in museum settings.
Candidates should also demonstrate an active research agenda with a record of scholarship that complements the existing strengths of the History Department.
Application Procedures
Appointment date is August 15, 2025.

To guarantee full consideration, application materials must be received through the Texas State University website by November 15, 2024: https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/49939

A complete application includes the following:
Cover Letter
Curriculum Vitae
Unofficial graduate transcripts
A teaching statement that details the candidate’s approach to teaching museum methods and mentoring public history students, and three potential referees.
Writing samples will be requested of shortlisted candidates.
The contact information for three references in the Reference Letter section of the application.

The selected candidate will be required to provide official transcripts from all degree-granting universities.
Proposed Start Date August 15, 2025
Posting Date 10/07/2024
Evaluation of Applications Begins
Full Consideration Date: 11/15/2024

https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/49939

09/05/2024

03/18/2024

Archivist Job available at DFPS - Texas:

Job Description:
The Records Analyst III performs advanced (senior-level) records and information management work in DFPS’ Records Management Group (RMG) Division to protect, provide, and preserve the agency’s records. Work involves overseeing and designing, evaluating, reviewing, recommending, implementing, updating, and
maintaining DFPS’ records and information management program. The position may supervise the work of others and works under limited supervision, with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and
independent judgment.
Essential Job Functions:
• Coordinates and assists with responding to agency records requests with legal counsel and other employees, gathers appropriate records in accordance with the Public Information Act and other applicable laws, ensures appropriate redaction and release based on entitlement, and oversees cost estimates when applicable.
o Ensures responses to requests for governmental records is within the time period mandated by the Texas Public Information Act and other state statutes.
o Coordinates the gathering of the requested information within all divisions of DFPS and disseminates requests to appropriate departments.
o Redacts or reviews redaction in confidential records before releasing documents to entitled parties.

• Oversees the design and implementation of filing systems and filing procedures.
o Ensures the entry of data into records request tracking and inventory systems is accurate to facilitate retrieval, distribution, and disposition of agency records.
o Oversees staff properly analyzes, validates, and researches all requests for records, ensuring appropriate routing and timeliness. Assists as needed.
o Prepares, edits, and submits reports to management on work product.

• Oversees the classification, storage, access, and retrieval of agency records and information.
o Assists in the planning and coordination of agency-wide records and information management program, including records creation, retention, retrieval, maintenance, protection, storage, and disposition.
o Stays current on federal and state records and information management law and applicable rules and agency policy and procedures.
o Maintains proficiency in current technology applicable to records and information management and related technology.

02/28/2024

"Rosie Flores, Rockabilly and Country Musician from Austin, Texas
78741 in the national news

"Rosie Flores has been songwriting, singing, and playing guitar for more than four decades, preserving and extending the musical legacies of Texan musicians that came before her. Her groundbreaking talent helped lay the foundation for what has grown into the alt country movement."

Announcing the 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellows, recipients of our nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

02/27/2024

Are you an undergraduate student interested in exploring a career in museums? Apply now for the Latino Museum Studies Program Undergraduate Internship! Paid internship placements are available throughout the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art. Applications are due Monday, April 1. s.si.edu/LMSPundergrad

02/23/2024

The Center for the Study of the Southwest invited Marla Ramirez Tahuado to campus, and all I ended up promising to start an oral history project - the Community at the Center - because Spanish-dominant audience members wanted to participate in the oral history projects CITC and Marla shared.

I hope we can have her share more from the book project in the future.

02/23/2024

"The people that accompanied the four cases—Buchanan v. Batchelor, Baker v. Wade, Morales v. Texas and England v. City of Dallas—are true Texas characters whose stories also speak to rural-urban migration, the importance of faith, the impact of Chicano and African American mobilizing, sunbelt urban expansion, and the internationalization of Texas cities. By true, I mean Texans can also be naturalizing immigrants, people who spent chunks of their working life outside of Texas, job-seeking Oklahomans, evangelicals as well as Chicana LGBTQ activists. That is, people like you and me also shape the history of Texas."

READ THIS BOOK and a bunch of others too.

On November 7, 1972,  Texas voters overwhelmingly endorsed the Texas Equal Rights Amendment, making the statement “equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because, of s*x, race, color, creed or national origin” part of the articles of the Bill of Rights in the Texas constitution....

02/21/2024

Can feminist oral history methods tell us something about the Great Repatriation? Marla Ramirez Tahuado dice que yes!

register for the zoom, or come to Taylor Murphy on Thursday

https://www.txst.edu/cssw/news-events/event-archive/2024/ramirez-tahuado-gendered-banishment.html

02/19/2024

"Brown: When I think about the connections between African Americans and forests, the main thing that comes to mind is the role of complexity. It's not a simple narrative. It's not just a stereotype that African Americans are afraid of forests and that African Americans are disconnected from nature.

It's much deeper than that. We have to consider what it meant for African Americans to be historical stewards of lands that they did not own and were forced to work upon. But then also what it meant to move through forests in secrecy, along the Underground Railroad to even have different uses, medicinal uses and healing qualities that were attributed to trees.

The idea that our connection to nature is not simple, it can't just simply be framed by fear."

One Michigan State University doctoral student is highlighting the connections between race, nature and culture with her research.

01/30/2024

Remembering M. Scott Momaday

M. Scott Momaday spoke here in San Marcos in October 1993. This was the second lecture in the series “American Indians Out West: Abiding Earth, Restless Sky,” part of the early programming of the Center for the Study of the Southwest. M. Scott Momaday embodied a broad humanistic inquiry into the physical and cultural ecology of the diverse peoples of the Southwest. In this presentation, the poet and novelist traced out aspects of Kiowa migrations, displacements and detentions that shaped his life and as well as centuries of Kiowa history.

On January 29, 2024, we learned of the sad news of M. Scott Momaday’s passing. Our thoughts are with M. Scott Momaday’s family and communities, as well as everyone who has been shaped by his writings.

For many people, M. Scott Momaday looms large. Mark Busby, our first director, had the lecture and discussion videotaped, part of a larger effort to promote artists and cultures in the making of the Southwest. We share this video and transcript to honor M. Scott Momaday’s generosity, his commitment to a public sharing of his work, and his sense of place, particularly as one of the key authors who helped shape an earlier renaissance in American Indian Fiction. As M. Scott Momaday pointed out about his journeys and residences across Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, “I can't think of a better geography upon which to center my writing, and I have seen much of the world. Finally, I suppose we have no choice in the matter. We write of our time and place and of our investment in that place and at that time.”