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.

• Mary Jon and JP Bryan Award Leadership in Education - Texas State Historical Association (02/28/2025)
• 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.

• Deceptive Landscapes: Waterways, Forests, and Other Inconveniences in Spanish Texas (2024), Volume Denton, Texas, 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.

• UTEP Researchers for "Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana" (01/01/2025 - 12/31/2025) Borderlands Digital Humanities Cente
• “Colonial Connections: People and Places Across New Spain’s Frontier” (01/01/2025 - 12/31/2025) Borderlands Digital Humanities Center