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Sun, 31 May 2026 12:48:33 +0000

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The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Theo Johnson

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Theo Johnson (b. 2003, Houston, TX) is a photographer and writer whose work examines Black memory, displacement, and community resilience in Texas through documentary practice and archival research. His work centers suppressed histories, with a particular interest in how narratives of place are constructed, obscured, and reimagined over time. Through photography, he explores the relationship between landscape, memory, and collective identity, positioning the archive as both a site of preservation and intervention. Johnson received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Texas in 2026.

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Kara Culp

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Kara Alexandra Culp is a PhD student in history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies how local, state, and federal education policies affect Latinos in Texas. She is dedicated to community-centric history, a methodology that includes oral histories, using individuals’ personal papers, and creating public history projects which make her research more accessible to the communities which she is writing about. Kara attended Texas A&M university for her undergraduate degree, where she majored in history and minored in Spanish and secondary education. Before beginning her graduate studies, she spent several years working as a public high school teacher and volunteering. She was born and raised in Texas.

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Gary Borders

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Gary B. Borders is a longtime writer who spent more than 50 years in East Texas newspapers as a journalist, photographer, and publisher. He received his Graduate Certificate in Archival Management from UNT in 2024 and became a Certified Archivist last year. Borders is the author of six books, including A Hanging in Nacogdoches, published by the University of Texas Press. He has written for Texas Monthly, World Wildlife Fund, Texas Observer, Texas Highways, and other publications. For the past eight years, he has served as an archivist and reference librarian at LeTourneau University in Longview, which holds the R.G. LeTourneau archives. (The archive formed a partnership with the Portal to Texas History, and more than 2,000 digital items are now part of the Portal.)

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Madeline Baird

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Madeline Baird is a border scholar and medical anthropologist. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Her doctoral research builds off a decade of engaged community research and public health work in the U.S. and Latin America. Her work has been supported by the Mexico Fulbright Program, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and Dodd Center for Human Rights and published in Migration Policy Practice, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and Social Science & Medicine. She is currently developing a collaborative photobook, En las Manos de Dios (In the Hands of God), that showcases visual representations of border crossings and tactics of deterrence employed to dissuade access to asylum.

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Phillip Sozansky

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Phillip M. Sozansky is an adjunct assistant professor of history at Austin Community College. He holds degrees in history from the University of Houston (BA) and Texas State University (MA). A veteran educator, he retired in May 2025 following a 29-year career teaching various history courses in Texas public schools. His research interests include 19th-century Texas—especially the antebellum and Civil War eras—and the environmental history of the American West. Beyond the archives and classroom, he advocates for native wildlife conservation, volunteers for living history events at the San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, and enjoys spending time outdoors with his family and dogs.

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Halee Robinson

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Dr. Halee R. Robinson is an Assistant Professor of History and Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is currently working on her first book, They Taken Him Away From Us: Race, Punishment, and the Intimate Histories of the Texas Prison System, 1865-1912. The book explores how the Texas prison system impacted the social ties of free and incarcerated Black, ethnic Mexican, Indigenous, and white people and how these intimate encounters consequently shaped the meanings of freedom, justice, and punishment after the Civil War. She received her PhD in History from Princeton University.

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Kael Alford

Wed, 20 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Kael Alford is a photographer, artist, and educator who seeks creative responses to our catastrophe-ridden era in her work.

1967: The Year Soccer Came to Texas

Wed, 20 May 2026 13:06:37 +0000

Rare soccer memorabilia and never seen photos of soccer clubs around the world will be on display at the UNT CoLab from June 5 through June 26,

The opening reception is June 5 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

UNT Special Collections 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Dr. Kelcie Slaton and Dr. Annette Becker

Sun, 10 May 2026 13:06:37 +0000

Dr. Kelcie Slaton is an Assistant Professor in the College of Merchandising, Hospitality. Annette Becker is Director of the Texas Fashion Collection at the University of North Texas