Rebecca is a professor of history at Texas Christian University, teaching about Texas and the South, particularly women, work, and food. Her books include Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms (1999); Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South (2010); Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South (2022); and People of the Wheat: Commodity and Culture in North Texas (2026). Her current project is “Who Wouldn’t Leave?: Country Girls Become City Women in the American South.” Sharpless earned her BA and MA from Baylor and her PhD from Emory University. Rebecca is Editor of the JTxH.

Kenna is an Associate Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses on colonial and revolutionary America, environmental history, and Texas history. Her first book, Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River (2015), was an award-winning study of hydrological development in the Brazos River Basin. In 2018, she co-authored a revised edition of Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land, and she recently co-edited a collection on the environmental history of Texas, published by Texas Tech University Press in 2026. Her current book project, Dog Days and Cat Naps: A Social and Environmental History of Keeping Cool in Texas, explores the strategies Texans employed to cope with the heat when mechanical interventions were unavailable. Kenna is an Associate Editor of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Jeff is a Professor of History at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He is the author and editor of four books including Restructured Resistance (1996), The Political Culture of the New West (2008), and The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right (2025), the winner of the Al Lowman Prize. His current project is a cultural biography of cereal magnate and anti-labor zealot C.W. Post. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and his BA and MA from Georgia State University. He is the founder and director of the Monday Night Mile, a non-profit organization that raises money for children’s hospitals. Jeff is an Associate Editor of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Carlos Kevin Blanton is the Barbara White Stuart Professor of Texas History at the University of Texas at Austin. Carlos taught for 23 years at Texas A&M University, including several as head of its Department of History. He has a Ph.D. from Rice University. He studies the intersection of Chicana/o history and the topics of education, civil rights, immigration, politics, and Texas in George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration (Yale 2015), The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836–1981 (Texas A&M 2004), A Promising Problem: The New Chicana/o History (Texas 2016), and several journal and magazine articles, including the Western Historical Quarterly, Southern Historical Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Texas Monthly. Carlos is the President of the Alliance for Texas History and the Review Editor for the JTxH.

Justin is an Assistant Professor of history at Texas A&M University. He studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history. His first book, Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America's Jim Crow Countryside (2025) chronicles the rural history of white supremacist policing and the Black freedom struggles that fought for better. It tracks the rise of American paramilitary police reform from segregation to the age of mass incarceration. Justin is the editor for public history reviews for the JTxH.

Charlotte is the Frank C. Erwin Jr., Centennial Professor in Drama at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include Theatre & the USA (Methuen, 2023), On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism (Palgrave, 2015) winner of the Joe A. Calloway Prize, Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography (Iowa, 2010), The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (Iowa, 2005) recipient of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, and Feminist Theaters In The USA: Staging Women's Experience (Routledge, 1996). She is the past editor of Theatre Research International. Her op-eds have appeared in The Houston Chronicle, the Washington Post, The Conversation, and other publications. Charlotte is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Bobby is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is a scholar of poverty in the modern United States who focuses on public policy, political economy, and transnational migration. He is currently writing Las Colonias: An American History, exploring the development of peri-urban Latino communities in the Texas-Mexico borderlands where nearly a million people live in one the greatest concentrations of American poverty. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Kansas and his B.A. in Government and B.J. in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Bobby is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Paul is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (Penn Press, 2021), which received awards from the OAH, WHA, and the Historical Society of New Mexico. His current project focuses on the role Indigenous survivors of the U.S. boarding school system played within their communities during the first half of the twentieth century. Paul is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

George serves as an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.  He is the author of Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande (University of Texas Press, 2015), and co-editor of the collection Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America (University of Texas Press, 2020).  His current book project is, Mañana Land: Life and Death in a Mexican Prison in Texas. George is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Sam is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies. His most recent book, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas, was published by Basic Books in 2022. He is currently working on a digital humanities project, “Texas in Turmoil: Mapping Interethnic Violence, 1821-1879.”Sam is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Benjamin H. Johnson is Professor and Chair in the History Department at Loyola University Chicago.  He is the author of numerous works on the U.S. Mexico border and environmental history, including Revolution in Texas:  How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (2003); Bordertown:  The Odyssey of an American Place (Yale University Press, 2008); and Escaping the Dark, Gray City:  Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation (2017).  Most recently he published Texas: An American History (2025).   Johnson has served as co-editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the Journal of Texas History and is one of the editors the Weber Series in New Borderlands History at the University of North Carolina Press.  He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Dr. Miguel Juárez is a first-generation historian, multi-disciplinary author, and faculty lecturer in the Department of History and Sociology/Anthropology Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is also a faculty lecturer in history at El Paso Community College. 

He earned his PhD in Borderlands History from UTEP (2018), as well as an M.A. in Border History, and a B.A. in Journalism from UTEP.  He also holds a Master of Library Science (MLS) degree from SUNY Buffalo and served as an academic librarian and archivist from 1999 to 2013 at five Tier 1 institutions. His work focuses on Borderlands history, urban environmental history, and Chicana/o and African American spaces and art.

Joseph is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Rice University. His first book, Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He also co-created The American Yawp (americanyawp.com), an open history textbook published in print by Stanford University Press in 2019. Joseph is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Kelly is Full Professor of History at American Public University, where she teaches American history, historical methods, and public history. Her scholarship explores the history of Texas, the Atlantic world, Irish migration, and women's history. She is the author of Sacred Memories: The Civil War and Public Memory in Texas and numerous scholarly articles on Texas and American history. Her current research includes the forthcoming The Seaflower: A True Story of Climate Migration, Cannibalism, and Survival, a study of the 1741 Irish famine migration to colonial America, and a book examining three centuries of Irish migration and settlement in Texas, Ireland and Texas: Four Centuries of Exchange in the Atlantic World. Kelly is a member of the Journal of Texas History Editorial Board.

Char taught at Trinity University for 26 years and is currently the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College. He is author of West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement, San Antonio: A Tricentennial History, On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio, and Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas. Forthcoming is the co-edited Nature and Place in the Lone Star State, which will be the inaugural volume in TTU Press’s new series, Environmental Histories of Texas and for which Miller is editor.

Carl is a specialist in the history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction who holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. He has published extensively in this field with studies on Texas that include  The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas (2021), George T. Ruby: Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas (2020), Edmund J. Davis: Civil War General, Republican Leader Reconstruction Governor (2010), Texas after the Civil War (2004), Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of the Civil War in Texas (1998), and Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (1980). Carl is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Wesley is an associate professor of history at the University of North Texas and the author of Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement, which won the Tullis Prize for the best book on Texas History from the Texas State Historical Association in 2024. He is also the creator of Queering the Lone Star State, a podcast series about the historic struggle for queer equality in Texas. He teaches courses on recent US history and queer history. Wesley is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Uzma is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. A historian of the twentieth-century United States, she specializes in Asian migrations, race and place, and the Cold War. Her work includes the award-winning book, Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War. She is a former fellow of the Clements Center at SMU and the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School. Currently, she is working on a diplomatic history of U.S. Cold War propaganda in South Asia, and a study of immigrant neighborhoods in the United States. Uzma is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Tim is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Tyler. He researches colonial and Native Texas and is putting the finishing touches on his first book, Wrangling Pelicans (University of Texas Press), which describes life in eighteenth-century Spanish Texas. Dr. Seiter is now writing a general history of the Karankawa peoples of the Texas Gulf entitled “Persistent Peoples.” After spending his day sufficiently clanking on the computer, Dr. Seiter enjoys gardening and rock climbing. Tim is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Tyina is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is the author of the award-winning book, Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City  (University of California Press, 2016), and the edited volume, Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle (Library of America, 2024). Her writing has appeared in the Houston Chronicle, TIME, The Denver Post, The Conversation, and other publications. She is also a DJ on Tucson community radio station KXCI. Tyina is a member of the JTxH Editorial Board.

Vanessa is our primary contact in bringing the Journal of Texas History into existence online. She manages the institutional repository which will include our new journal made available through Digital Commons. Before joining the staff at the University of Texas-Arlington, Vanessa worked in a publishing company where she honed her skill in digital editing, publishing, and marketing.

Lauren Huntley is a PhD student at Texas A&M University. Currently studying the Native history of Jim Crow Texas, she highlights how Indigenous stories challenge existing conceptions of the Lone Star State. She serves as the Journal's Public History Intern and is eager to build a publication dedicated to sharing histories about every Texan for every Texan.

Rivers Liu is a PhD student in the Department of American Studies at UT Austin. Rivers studies knowledge creation and everyday life at the intersections of labor, race, and citizenship in the late 19th and early 20th century American South and West. Currently, he is the Susan and Melinda Mayer Fellow for K12 Museum Education at the Blanton Museum of Art. He serves as an Editorial Intern for the Journal’s Book Review section.