As part of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant, the
Houston Endowment funded the Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of
Southwestern Studies. The Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies team-teaches
the Southwestern Studies courses with the Director of the Center for the
Study of the Southwest, works with Center publications, helps organize and
present symposia, and assists the Center with other regional projects related
to the professor’s discipline and the Center’s designation as
the Southwest Regional Humanities Center.
Dr. Paul Hart of the History Department will serve as
the Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies through the spring of 2011.
Dr. Hart studies the
history of Mexico and Mexican American history. He is the author of Bitter
Harvest: the Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico and the Origins of
the Zapatista Revolution (book
info: click
here). He is currently working on a
history of the causes and consequences of modern immigration in the Southwest.
Email: ph18@txstate.edu