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Mexican Americans of Texas

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AUTHOR BIO

AUTHOR BIO

Tijerina, Andres

Andrés Tijerina is a Professor of History at Austin Community College. He received his B.A. from Texas A&M University, his M.A. from Texas Tech University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Tijerina has received state and national book prizes for his books Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag and his other major book Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos. His most widely read work is the publication of his Vietnam War combat memoirs in the Time-Life Books series The Vietnam Experience. As a pilot in the Air Force, Dr. Tijerina flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam, receiving the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross, and he retired as a Major of the U.S. Air Force Reserve and Liaison Officer for the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is co-editor of the online Handbook of Tejano History.

He has received Teaching Excellence Awards and received the 2012 Equity Award from the American Historical Association. He was appointed by the governor to the Historical Representation Advisory Committee and to the Review Board for the Texas Historical Commission. Dr. Tijerina is the General Series Editor for Texas A&M University Press, a past-Committee Chairman of the O.A.H., and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. He is President of the Texas Institute of Letters and a Director of the Board which erected the Tejano Monument at the state capitol in 2012. He was the founding chairman of the first Texas Hispanic Genealogy Conference held in Austin, Texas in 1979, and has served as the History Expert Witness for numerous landmark cases before federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court.

ZAMORA, EMILIO

Emilio Zamora is a Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has prepared or collaborated in the production of nine monographs: three single-authored books, a translated and edited World War I diary, three co-edited anthologies, a co-edited e-book, and two Texas history texts. Zamora has received seven best-book awards, a best-article prize, and a Fulbright Gracia-Robles fellowship. He is a lifetime ember of the Texas Institute of Letters, a lifetime. Fellow with the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), an appointed Fellow of the George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History at the University of Texas, a former Fellow with the Institute for Historical Studies, and former President of TSHA (2019-20)

Hernandez, Sonia

Sonia Hernandez is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of the award-winning Working Women into Borderlands (Texas A&M Press, 2014), Mujeres, Trabajo y Región Fronteriza (Mexico City INERHM, 2017), and For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2021). She is a former UT System Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Recipient, a former Fulbright Garcia-Robles Fellow, has garnered fellowships from the NEH, Humanities Texas, and awards from the WHA, NWSA, OAH, and the AHA. Funded by an NEH-HSI fellowship, she is currently at work on her book project, which revisits the 1901 Gregorio Cortez near lynching incident and its ramifications. She is a co-founder of the nonprofit public history project Refusing to Forget that
seeks to create awareness of anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. The public history project has received awards from the WHA, AHA, and the AASLH (American Association for State and Local History).

PORTER, AMY M.

Amy Porter is a Professor in History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Her research focuses on women in the Spanish Borderlands. Her 2015 book Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846 was a co-recipient of the Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Prize from the Historical Society of New Mexico and a recipient of the Lou Halsall Rodenberger Book Prize in History, Culture, and Literature from Texas Tech University Press. Porter has published several book chapters and articals on Spanish Borderlands topics. 

SAN MIGUEL JR, GUADALUPE

Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., is a professor of history at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. He is a renowned scholar in the history of Texas Mexican American/Chicano education and has written on educational struggles in the community and on language, politics, and education. He has published extensively and is best known for the following books: Chicana/ o Struggles for Education (2004), Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century (2002), Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement (2001) and Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Quest for Educational Equality (1987). He has also published over fifty scholarly articals in journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, the American Educational Research Association Journal, Svisl Science Quarterly, and the History of Education. He is a lifetime Fellow with the Texas State Historicals Association and former President of the Natianal Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.