Formby Research Fellows
2012-2013
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Dr. Mireya Loza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Braceros on the Boundaries: Activism, Race, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Bracero Program."
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Deborah Kilgore, Ph.D. candidate, University of North Texas "Building the Texas Textile Industry: A Study of Two Cotton Mills at Itasca and Post, Texas, 1896-1939. "
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Rainlilly Elizondo, Ph.D. candidate, Texas A&M University. "The Integration of Lubbock ISD."
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Crystal Shelnutt, University of West Georgia. "William Kittredge and the Romantic Ideal: The Efficacy of Art & Aesthetic as Tools of Wisdom."
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Dr. Toni Jensen, The Pennsylvania State University. "Person, Place, Thing: Essays from Middle Ground."
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Dr. Thomas Hofheinz, independent scholar. "Poet of the Canyon’s Edge: Max Crawford’s Early Fiction and the Northwest Texas Caprock."
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Millicent Accardi, independent scholar. "Struggling Artists, Together: Kay Boyle’s Life and Work Seen Through Letters, 1920-1990."
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Ashley Pettiet-Richey, Ph.D. candidate, University of Oklahoma. "The Lubbock Cotton Club: Music and Dancing in West Texas."
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Dr. Jeffrey P. Shepherd, University of Texas at El Paso. "The Guadalupe Mountains and Environmental History in Far West Texas: A Historical Resources Survey for the National Park Service."
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Dr. Robert Murray Davis, University of Oklahoma (retired). "All Over the Place: Real and Imagined Wests."
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Dr. Jill Hampton, University of South Carolina-Aiken. "The Spirituality of Place in Gretel Ehrlich's Writings."
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Daniel Hutchinson, Ph.D. candidate, Florida State University. "Sites of Contention: Federal Military Bases and the Transformation of the American South During World War II."
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Nadia Shihab, graduate student, University of California at Berkeley. "Excerpts from the Prototype: A Visual Investigation of Urban Transformation in Lubbock, Texas."
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Dr. Dan Shilling, Arizona State University. "Teaching the Fierce Green Fire: Sustainability in the Classroom and Community."
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Kacie Van Horn, graduate student, Texas Southern University. "Integration of the Southwest Conference."
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Dr. Stephen Bogener, Bemidji State University. "Island in the Sky: A Cultural and Historical Interpretation of the Southern Llano Estacado."
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Dr. Jill Hampton, University of South Carolina-Aiken. "The Evolution of Place in Gretel Ehrlich's Writings."
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Erich Nunn, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia. "Strange Harmonies: Race, Music, and American Literature in the Jim Crow Era."
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Dr. James Warren, Washington and Lee University. "Barry Lopez's American Geographies."
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Chad Wriglesworth, Ph.D. candidate, University of Iowa. "The Archive as Relational Confluence: Watersheds, Literature, and the West."
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Jahue Anderson, Ph.D. candidate, University of North Texas. "An Environmental History of the Red River."
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Dr. Shelley Armitage, University of Texas at El Paso. "Memoir and Writers of the Sowell Collection."
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Dr. Gene B. Preuss, University of Houston-Downtown. "Charting a National Educational Policy: Lauro F. Cavazos and Education in the Reagan and Bush White House."
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Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California. "Familias Flexibles (Flexible Families): Bracero Families' Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, 1942-1964."
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David Lukas, independent scholar, Tiburon, California. "From Notebook to Text: The Writing Process of Barry Lopez."
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Dan Scurlock, independent scholar, Fort Sumner, New Mexico. "Comancheros in the Texas Panhandle: Rendezvous Sites."
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Andrew J. Liccardo, Northern Illinois University. "Untitled/Undated/Unknown: An Exploration of Documentary Photographs." Research in documentary photography and the Millennial Collection.
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Timothy N. Pinnick, independent scholar, North Aurora, Illinois. "Uncovering the African American Coal Miners of Thurber, Texas."
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Norwood Andrews, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin. "Sunbelt Justice: Federal Policy and the Transformation of Crime and Punishment in Texas."
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Jeri L. Reed, Ph.D. candidate, University of Oklahoma. "Radical Capitalists in the Progressive Southwest."
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Dr. Douglas Simes, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. "The Early Career of John Horton Slaughter."
2011-2012
2010-2011
2009-2010
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
Address application or inquiries to: Dr. Diane Warner, Chair of Formby Research Fellowships Committee
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
MS 41041
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-1041
Fax: 806-742-0496 Phone: 806-834-0466 For further information contact Dr. Diane
Warner at diane.warner@ttu.edu