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)

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• “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.
• “Curbing Desertion and Clarifying Slavery in Colonial Louisiana” (2018), Christina M. Villarreal.
• “Desertion and Absolution; Securing Soldiers in New Spain’s Texas-Louisiana Borderland, 1763-1803” (2018), Christina M. Villarreal.

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