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Monica Muñoz Martinez

Monica Muñoz Martinez is a scholar of Mexican-American history current serving as an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Martinez was previously the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Texas State Historical Association. She has received praise for her work on several public history projects and her first book, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas was published in 2018 and received numerous awards. In 2021 she received a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation.[1]

Monica Muñoz Martinez
Born
Uvalde, Texas
Known forLatino studies, immigration, the history of violence and policing, anti-Mexican violence in the Southwestern United States
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DisciplineHistory
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Background

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Monica Muñoz Martinez was born in Uvalde, Texas.[2] She received her B.A. from Brown University's Department of Ethnic Studies and American Civilization and her Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of American Studies.[3] After completing her doctorate, she conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin with the Center for Mexican American Studies studying the history and legacy of anti-Mexican violence along the Texas borderlands.[4]

Academic career

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Muñoz Martinez was the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.[5][6] Her areas of research include Latino studies, immigration, and the history of violence and policing, with an emphasis on the history of anti-Mexican violence in the Southwestern United States and the legacy violence has on people today.[7][8] Discussing her goal of shedding light on the legacy of violence, she stated, "I wanted to study the longer legacies of violence," ... "Historians think in terms of concrete time frames. But now I was meeting descendants who were still being impacted by the violence. It still resonates today."[9]

She is a co-founder of Refusing to Forget, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching and raising public awareness of current and past racial violence in Texas.[2][10]

Her first book The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas was published by Harvard University Press in 2018 and has received numerous awards and positive reviews in academic journals.[11][12][13][14] Commenting on her book she stated her goal was attempting “to recover history that’s been forgotten or disavowed and make it public."[15] The book is centered around three episodes of violence in the Texas borderlands: the 1910 lynching of Antonio Rodríguez; the 1915 murders of Jesus Bazán and Antonio Longoria by Texas Rangers; and the 1918 Porvenir massacre of fifteen Tejanos by Texas Rangers. The book continues with a history of the efforts by José Tomás Canales in 1919 to bring criminal charges against several Texas Rangers for their involvement in terrorizing and murdering Mexican Americans and the House-Senate committee hearings that investigated the murders and violence perpetrated by the Texas Rangers in the borderlands.[16]

Martinez was part of the research team for the project "Mapping Violence", documenting the history of racial violence in Texas during 1900–1930.[17][2]

In 2019, Martinez gave testimony in Congress during Judiciary Committee hearings on the "Oversight of the Trump Administration’s Border Policies and the Relationship Between Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Domestic Terrorism".[18]

Her professional affiliations include the Organization of American Historians, the American Studies Association, the National Council for Public Humanities, the National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies, the Western History Association and the American Historians Association.[3]

Awards

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Grants and fellowships

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During her first year at Brown University, Martinez was the recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.[2] Since completing her Ph.D. in 2012, has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships.[3][5] These include:

Bibliography

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  • Book Review: Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 by Rodolfo F. Acuña (2009). Western Historical Quarterly, 40(3), pp. 393–394.
  • Book Review: Seeking Inalienable Rights: Texans and Their Quest for Justice by Debra A. Reid. (2012). Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, 53(1), pp. 122–124.
  • Recuperating Histories of Violence in the Americas: Vernacular History-Making on the US-Mexico Border. (2014). American Quarterly, 66(3), pp. 661–689.
  • Porvenir Massacre (2017). Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association.
  • The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (2018). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674976436
  • Mapping Segregated Histories of Racial Violence. American Quarterly. 70(3), pp. 657–663.
  • How ‘The Highwaymen’ whitewashes Frank Hamer and the Texas Rangers. (2019). The Washington Post.

Public history projects

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  • Life and Death on the Border, 1910–1920. Bullock Texas State History Museum. Museum Exhibit.[27][2]
  • Mapping Violence. Academic collaboration documenting previously forgotten or concealed cases of racial violence in Texas between 1900 – 1930.[2][28]
  • Refusing To Forget. Educational non-profit organization focused on raising public awareness about anti-immigrant violence along the US-Mexico border.[2][29]
  • Texas Historical Commission Historical Markers project. Martinez worked to place four historical markers along the US-Mexico border at locations of major acts of anti-Mexican violence.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Limbong, Andrew (September 28, 2021). "This Year's MacArthur 'Genius Grants' Were Just Announced—Here's The Full Winner List". NPR. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Refusing to Forget: Monica Muñoz Martinez Uncovers America's History at the Border". The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Monica Muñoz Martinez Biography" (PDF). United States House of Representatives.
  4. ^ "Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Yale University)". Yale University. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Monica Muñoz Martinez". Organization of American Historian. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Researchers@Brown". Brown University. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  7. ^ Aguilera, Jasmine (September 27, 2019). "'I Cry All the Time.' A Century After 15 Mexican Men and Boys Were Massacred in Texas, Their Descendants Want Recognition". Time Magazine. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  8. ^ "The 'Forgotten' History Of Anti-Latino Violence In The U.S." NPR. November 25, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  9. ^ Barnes, Michael. "100 years later, anti-Mexican violence still casts a shadow on Texas". Austin American Statesman. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  10. ^ "Our Team: Refusing to Forget". Refusing to Forget. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  11. ^ Barajas, Frank P. (2019). "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas". Journal of American History. 106 (3): 786. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaz598.
  12. ^ Tijerina, Andrés (2019). "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martínez". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 123: 114–115. doi:10.1353/swh.2019.0056. S2CID 198799175.
  13. ^ Campney, Brent (2019). "Review: The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez". Pacific Historical Review. 88 (4): 731–732. doi:10.1525/phr.2019.88.4.731.
  14. ^ LeBrón, Marisol (2019). "Review of Monica Muñoz Martinez's The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas". NACLA Report on the Americas. 51 (4): 437–440. doi:10.1080/10714839.2019.1693006. S2CID 213344911.
  15. ^ Aviles, Gwen (September 16, 2019). "Monica Muñoz Martinez — Recovering forgotten Latino history". NBC News. NBC. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  16. ^ Blanton, Carlos Kevin (September 21, 2018). "The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas". Texas Monthly. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  17. ^ "Mapping Violence Research Team". Mapping Violence. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  18. ^ "Testimony of Monica Muñoz Martinez" (PDF). United States House of Representatives. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  19. ^ "Caughey Western History Prize". Western History Association. Western History Association. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  20. ^ "Robert G. Athearn Prize". Western History Association. Western History Association. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  21. ^ "The Lawrence W. Levine Award". Organization of American Historians. Organization of American Historians. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  22. ^ "2019 María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History". University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  23. ^ "Frederick Jackson Turner Award Winners". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  24. ^ "2019 Naccs-Tejas Foco, Mid-Year Report". National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  25. ^ "TCU Texas Book Award". Texas Christian University. TCU Press. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  26. ^ "MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 'Genius' Grant Winners". The New York Times. September 28, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  27. ^ "Life and death on the Texas-Mexico border 100 years ago". Statesman. Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  28. ^ "Home Page: Mapping Violence". Mapping Violence. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  29. ^ "Home Page: Refusing to Forget". Refusing to Forget.
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