Jones Professorship

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