Dr. Christina Villarreal
Assistant Professor of History
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- Dr. Christina Villarreal is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso. She received her doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin, where she studied Latin American history and the Spanish Borderlands. Her research focuses on the Texas-Louisiana borderlands, early America, fugitives from slavery, desertion, and sanctuary. Dr. Villarreal’s work has received support from the Fulbright Program, Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, SSRC-Mellon Mays Program, and the E.D. Farmer International Fellowship. Currently, Villarreal is a 2021-2022 Summerfield G. Roberts Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University where she is working on a manuscript entitled “Resisting Colonial Subjugation: Sanctuary, Asylum, and Refuge in the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1714-1803.”
Classes Taught:
- Texas History