Current Fellows

Clements Center for Southwest Studies Fellows for 2026-2027

 

Daniel Herman

Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1995
, Central Washington University
“Legacy of Reform: The Inner West and American Politics, 1890-1988”

 

Chelsea Ball 

Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2021
, University of Central Oklahoma
“West of Feminism: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment in the American West”

 

Jian Gao

Weber Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2024
, Arizona State University
“Journeys of Longing and Belonging: Migration and the Modern Chinese Mexico”

 

Carlos Parra

Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America

PhD, University of Southern California, 2021
, University of Arizona
“Televising Latinidad: A History of Spanish-Language TV in Latino Southern California, 1962-2012”