History News for January 2015

January 21, 2015

Dr. Mike Bess who received his MA from the Department of History and PhD in 2013 from University of Texas at El Paso is a faculty member in Mexico at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Division de Historia.

Dr. Anna Alexander recently delivered two papers: “Treating Burns and Reducing Fire Risk: Hygiene Experts and the Fight Against Fire Hazards in Mexico City, 1860-1910,” Conference on Latin American History at the 129th Annual American Historical Association, New York City, NY, January 2-5, 2015; and “The Politics of Space and Safety in Mexico City: Fire Risk and Social Change, 1860-1910,” 7th biennial Urban History Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 9-12, 2014. She was also elected President and Secretary Teaching and Teaching Materials Committee for the Conference on Latin American History held at the American Historical Association.

Dr. Craig Roell: The San Jacinto Conservancy posted the video on YouTube.com of Dr. Roell’s 47-minute presentation on “Tejanos of Goliad and Victoria,” an invited presentation he gave at the San Jacinto Symposium: The Tejano Side of the Texas Revolution, sponsored by the San Jacinto Battleground Conservancy, Houston, Texas, April 12, 2014. The presentation can be watched here.