Sonia Hernández, PhD
Historian of the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Modern Mexico, Chicana/o History
Dr. Sonia Hernández is Chancellor EDGES Fellow and Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is a core faculty member and former director of the Latino/a & Mexican American Studies Program at Texas A&M. Hernández received her PhD in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 2006; she worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Texas-Pan American from 2007 through 2014. She joined the History Department faculty at Texas A&M in fall 2014.
Research Portfolio
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Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2014).
Mujeres, Trabajo y Region Fronteriza (Mexico: INEHRM, ITCA, 2017).
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Current Book Project and publications drawing on this research:
Tentative title: "Por un Compatriota: State Violence, Gender, and (Un) Likely Transnational Alliances in the Cortez Incident" research funded with 2019 Fulbright Grant for Cortez Project and Chancellor EDGES Fellowship
Public History Projects:
Refusing to Forget, Co-Founder [non-profit, collaborative public-facing project on History of anti-Mexican Violence, 1910-1920]
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3 Year Program 'Bridging the Humanities & Hard Sciences' where students explore the US-Mexican Border region to make connections to history, engineering, law, and other disciplines. See media story on project:
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Edited Anthologies:
Co-Editor of Anthology with John Moran Gonzalez: Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border (University of Texas Press, 2021)
Conferences Organized:
2019 NEH Conference on Centennial of the Canales Hearings on Texas Ranger Violence http://canalesconference.dh.tamu.edu/
2022 IV Coloquio Internacional de la Historia del Noreste Mexicano y Sur de Texas http://coloquiointernacional2022.com
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Other leadership roles:
Co-Chair (2022-Spring 2023) NACCS Tejas Foco (est. 1973)
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(Co-Chair 2021-2022) Higher Education Committee for Mexican American Studies
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Reviews of For a Just and Better World
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Latin American Research Review
Latinos in Publishing.com
Hispanic American Historical Review
Global Labour Journal
H-Net
Journal of American Ethnic History
