Dr. Christina Villarreal received her PhD in Latin American history from The University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the Texas-Louisiana borderlands, fugitives from slavery, desertion, and sanctuary.

• Nomination for Lathrop Prize for Best Dissertation in History Dissertation Award - The University of Texas at Austin (11/01/2020)
• TeachTech Research Grant - The University of Texas at El Paso (11/01/2020)
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation MMUF Dissertation Grant - Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (04/15/2019)

• Ph D in Latin American History, The University of Texas at Austin (2020)
• MA in Latin American History, The University of Texas at Austin (2015)

• "Black Fugitive Strategies: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in the Spanish Gulf Coast Borderlands" University of New Mexico Press (2023), Christina M. Villarreal.
• Review of To the Vast and Beautiful Land: Anglo Migration into Spanish Louisiana and Texas, 1760s–1820s, by Light Townsend Cummins New Mexico Historical Review (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• Review of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War, by Alice Baumgartner H-Diplo Roundtable Review (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• Review of Spanish New Orleans: An Imperial City on the American Periphery, 1766–1803, by John Eugene Rodriguez, Hispanic American Historical Review 102 2 (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• Review of Los Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas, by Francis X. Galan Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXXV 2 (2021), Christina M. Villarreal.

• “Succeeding in Academia and Beyond: Lessons from a First-Gen Mellon Fellow” (2023), Volume Houston, Texas, Christina M. Villarreal.
• "The Bigmouth of East Texas and the Unnamed Mother” (2023), Volume San Antonio, Texas", Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Texas as West? The Place of Texas in Black and Indigenous History,” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “The 1848 Problem,” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Preparing for the Professoriate Conference Panel: The Waiting,” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Imperial Liabilities: Fugitivity and Sanctuary in the Colonial Sister Cities of the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands,” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Teaching U.S. History Narratives through Latin American Perspectives.” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Fight and Flight: Karankawa Sovereignty in the Eighteenth-Century Texas Coast.” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Black Life in Spanish New Orleans: New Research and Insights.” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “The Connected Gulf: Political Diasporas, Labor Migrations, and Transnational Belonging in the 19th-Century Gulf of Mexico.” (2022), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Military Demographics and Desertion across the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1714-1803” (2021), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Creating an Online Community with Perusall.” (2021), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Black Life and Self-Emancipation in the Spanish Gulf Coast.” (2021), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Challenging the Narrative: Texas History and Beyond” (2020), Christina M. Villarreal.
• "Landscapes of the Self-Emancipated: Mapping Asylum in New Spain's Northern Gulf Coast." (2020), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Claiming Sovereignty: Marronage in the Gulf Coast of Mexico, 1763-1803” (2019), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “The Shape of Sovereignty: Native American Territoriality in the Texas Borderlands” (2019), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Frontier Sanctuary: Slave Flight in the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1763-1803” (2019), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Balancing the Consequences of Desertion in Spanish Gulf South” (2019), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Frontier Sanctuary: Making Space Emancipatory in the Gulf Coast Borderlands, 1763-1821” (2019), Christina M. Villarreal.

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