Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. John Mckiernan

Associate Professor at History, College of Liberal Arts
Program Director, Faculty at Center for the Study of the Southwest

Service Activities

2032

Member, Independent Citizens Redistricting Committee - Austin. April 7, 2022 - April 7, 2032.

2025

Member, National Park Service - Founding Documents Workshop - Blackwell School NPS Historical Siteric. August 1, 2024 - August 1, 2025.
Member, Alliance for Texas History / Local Arrangements Committee. May 1, 2025 - May 18, 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation: Ad Hoc Reviewer NSF/SBE FY2025. January 15, 2025 - April 18, 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, Huntington Library History of Science Fellowship Advisory Committee. September 2024 - February 2025.
Historian, The Guardian. February 13, 2025.

2024

Member, Lively Middle School PTA. 2019 - 2024.
Director, Center for the Study of the Southwest. 2017 - 2024.
Organizer, Grassy Stains Soccer Club. January 2019 - December 2024.
Participant, Austin Men's Soccer Association. January 2019 - December 2024.
Member, Planning Advisory Board - Social Science Research Council - Mellon Mays Graduate Initiative. November 2017 - December 2024.
Member, Program Committee, Southern Historical Association. May 2023 - November 2024.
Organizer, Film Screening with Charlene D'Cruz: Las Abogadas. September 16, 2024 - October 18, 2024.
Organizer, Book Talk: They Call You Back by Tim Z. Hernandez. September 9, 2024 - October 10, 2024.
Organizer, Book Talk: Tim Z. Hernandez, They Call You Back: a Lost History. September 9, 2024 - October 10, 2024.
Organizer, DNAWorks Ensemble: Site specific, historically minded, collaborative co-produced art projects. January 2023 - September 2024.
Co-Sponsor, Juliana Barr: Woman in Blue: How Native Storytelles Turned a Bilocating Nun into an Expression of Indigenous Biopolitics. July 2024 - September 28, 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Johns Hopkins University Press. May 2024 - August 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Florida International University - Tenure & Promotion Review. April 1, 2024 - August 18, 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, University of North Carolina Pres. April 2024 - June 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation - Science, Technology & Society Fellowships Panel. February 20, 2024 - April 28, 2024.
Participant, Atascosa Borderlands Exhibit. October 11, 2023 - January 17, 2024.

2023

Reviewer / Referee, University of Oklahoma Press. July 2023 - December 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation - Science, Technology & Society Review Panel - Fall 2023. August 2023 - November 22, 2023.
Organizer, The Second Founding of the National Park Service: Contesting America's Best Idea. November 13, 2023.
Organizer, Border Bodies: Sexual Capital and Racialized Sexuality in the 19th Century Borderlands. October 19, 2023.
Organizer, Art and Social Justice: a Collaborative Question. October 19, 2023.
Participant, Atascosa Borderlands: Gallery Talk. October 11, 2023.
Organizer, Beaumont's Black History: the Example / Film maker Gordon Williams. September 28, 2023.
Organizer, Beaumont's Black History: a Neighborhood Story. September 28, 2023.
Organizer, İFandango! A TXST Interdisciplinary Dialogue on the Southwest. September 14, 2023.
Organizer, Imposing Borders: Histories, Documents, Memories. September 14, 2023.
Organizer, Whose Boundaries? Whose Community? / Fandango! September 14, 2023.
Organizer, The Evidence of Community / Fandango. September 14, 2023.
Organizer, Listening is Fundamental. September 14, 2023.
Organizer, Texas on the Move / Fandango. September 14, 2023.
Organizer, Collective Borderpalooza: Otherwise, It Would Be Just Another River. September 14, 2023.
Organizer, The San Saba Mission Martyrs and the Novohispanic Pictoriographical Tradition. September 7, 2023.
Organizer, Book Reading: Lyin Ass by Eugene Lee. September 1, 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, University of Chicago Press. January 2023 - May 2023.
Chair, Texas State Historical Association / El Paso 2023 Conference. May 2021 - May 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation - Science, Technology & Society Review Panel - Spring 2023. February 17, 2023 - April 28, 2023.
Organizer, A Cross Along the Road: Regulation, Perception, and Preservation of Roadside Memorials in Central Texas. April 13, 2023.
Chair, Search Committee - Latina/o/x History Position. May 2021 - March 2023.
Organizer, Chicanx Deportees in Paradise. March 30, 2023.
Organizer, Women Physicians and the Rise of Eigenics. March 28, 2023.
Organizer, Book Talk: More Than You Will Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez. March 23, 2023.
Organizer, Pecos - Artist Talk by Hope Mora. February 23, 2023.

2022

Member, Save Austin Schools. September 2019 - December 2022.
University Mentor, JOLT Organizing Committee - Texas State. May 2020 - December 7, 2022.
Member, Search Committee - Vice President for University Advancement. May 2021 - November 2022.
Organizer, The World Cup. The Liberal Arts. A Forum. September 2022 - November 23, 2022.
Organizer, The Most Important Desegregation Case You Never Heard Of - by Gonzalo Guzman, Macalester College. August 2022 - November 2, 2022.
Organizer, Native Bound - Unbound: Native Enslavement and the Digital Humanities - Estevan Rael Galvez -SAR. June 2022 - October 17, 2022.
Organizer, Making the Suburbs Brown: a History - Jerry Gonzalez, UTSA. May 2022 - October 6, 2022.
Coordinator / Organizer, Panel: Western Historical Association. August 2021 - August 2022.
Organizer, All the sacrifices you have made - exhibit. April 2021 - April 2022.
Organizer, Love in Precarious Times - Ariana Ochoa and Kathleen Coll. July 2021 - April 14, 2022.
Organizer, The Rhetoric of (Emerging) Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Cultivating “Servingness” in Organizational Cultures Marked by White Supremacy - by Darrel Wanzer Serrano - TAMU. September 2021 - March 24, 2022.
Organizer, What is a Chicano like me doing in Public Health anyway? March 3, 2021 - March 4, 2022.
Organizer, Trans Lives and US Empire - by Kris Klein Hernandez, Harvard University. August 2021 - February 28, 2022.
Organizer, Making the Black Past Present: Mexico - by Beau Gaithors, UT Knoxville. August 2021 - February 17, 2022.
Organizer, Risk, Oil Communities and West Texas Booms - Sarah Stanford Mcintyre. August 2021 - February 15, 2022.

2021

Reviewer / Referee, University of North Carolina Press. September 2021 - December 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Not an Elegy: an Oral History of Our Opioid Reckoning. November 15, 2021.
Organizer, Fastpitch Softball, the Mexican American Way. October 28, 2021.
Member, CSSW: Archiving Neurodiversity at the Austin State Hospital, 1856-Today: A Conversation with Jenna Cooper and Elizabeth Stauber. October 21, 2021.
Member, CSSW: Forget the Alamo: Popular Memory and Public History. September 23, 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Books and Bookstores in the Chicano Movement. September 16, 2021.
Organizer, Exhibit: Intimacy Interrupted. October 2020 - August 2021.
Member, Presidential Upper Level Scholarship Committee. January 2021 - April 2021.
Member, CSSW: Cultural Production, Place and Power. April 23, 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Public Schools in the Life of a Community: Centering Black Youth in Austin's Stories. April 19, 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Surgery, Settler-Colonialism and Fetal Personhood: A View from New Spain and Mexico, 1770-1840. April 6, 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Feminist Ferment: Women Brewing Change in Texas. April 5, 2021.
Reviewer / Referee, University of North Carolina Press. January 2021 - March 2021.
Coordinator / Organizer, Organization of American History. February 2020 - March 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Migrant Workers and the Right to Health Care in the United States. March 8, 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Locating Race in Mexican Art, 1750-1850. March 3, 2021.
Organizer, CSSW: Power and Political Theatre at the Capitol (of Mexico). February 11, 2021.

2020

Coordinator / Organizer, Cronicas: where Journalists and Academics Meet. April 2016 - November 2020.
Member, Advisory Council of Parent Teacher Associations of Austin. October 1, 2019 - October 1, 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, University of North Carolina Press. March 2020 - July 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, Latino Studies. May 2020 - June 2020.
Member, Exhibit: Valentine from Borderlandia. September 2019 - May 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, Migration and Society. December 1, 2019 - February 3, 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, Gender and History. November 2019 - January 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, University of California Press. September 2019 - January 2020.

2019

Member, Clotilde Garcia Tejano Genealogical Society Book Award. January 2017 - 2019.
Member, Liberal Arts Council of Chairs. January 2019 - December 2019.
Member, Scholarships Committee. January 2019 - December 2019.
Member, Presidential Upper Level Scholarship Advisory Committee. January 2019 - December 2019.
Member, Graduate Student Scholarship Advisory Committee. January 2019 - December 2019.
Organizer, Children in Detention. December 2, 2019.
Organizer, Lecture: Will Wilson / Auto-Immune Response. November 18, 2019.
Organizer, Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange. November 16, 2019.
Co-Chair, Symposia: Chasing Slavery: The Persistence of Forced Labor in the Southwest. October 24, 2019 - October 25, 2019.
Co-Chair, University Lecture: Ambassador Luis C.deBaca / Chasing Slavery: Reflections from the Southwest. October 23, 2019.
Organizer, Opening Reception: Valentine from Borderlandia. September 24, 2019.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of American Ethnic History. May 1, 2019 - July 30, 2019.
Member, HPN 25 / 25th anniversary exhibit. July 2018 - May 2019.
Member, Texas History Search Committee. August 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019.
Symposium: Sandra Cisneros' San Antonio Circle. April 26, 2019.
Organizer, Book Talk: Kali Fajardo-Anstine reads Corina y Sabrina. April 25, 2019.
Organizer, Lecture: Fay Yarnrough: Choctaw Confederates: The Civil War in Indian Country. April 12, 2019.
Organizer, Lecture: Michelle Irene Torres Maldonado: Supply Chains and Labor Exploitation. April 11, 2019.
Organizer, Lecture: The American Dream in Vietnamese: Nhi Lieu. March 6, 2019.
Organizer, Lecture: Demasiada y mas que Demasiada: Sandra Cisneros on the Loose in San Antonio. February 28, 2019.
Organizer, Wittliff Lecture: Year of the Dog: Poetry as Feminist Lament: Deborah Paredez. February 25, 2019.

2018

Member, Presidential Upper Level Scholarship Advisory Committee. January 2018 - December 2018.
Chair, Ralph Lee Woodward Award for best Grad Student Paper, Southern Historical Association. November 2017 - December 2018.
Member, Presidential Upper Level Scholarship Advisory Committee. January 2017 - December 2018.
Coordinator / Organizer, ColombianXamerican Studies. September 2015 - December 2018.
Member, Liberal Arts Council of Chairs. January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018.
Member, Scholarships Committee. January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018.
Member, Workers Defense Project. May 1, 2006 - December 1, 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Southwestern Historical Quarterly. July 2018 - November 2018.
Participant, Grassroots Leadership Committee. November 2016 - November 2018.
Organizer, Sarah L. Lopez: Concrete Connections: Migrant Construction Workers and the Transformation of Architecture in Mexico. November 12, 2018.
Organizer, Karl Jacoby: The Color Line & the Borderline | William Ellis, From Texas Slave to Mexican Millionaire. October 23, 2018.
Organizer, Karl Jacoby and Robert Williams: William Ellis: From Texas Slave to Mexican Millionaire. October 23, 2018.
Member, Latinos and the Future of America: Reflections on the Color of Educational Opportunity. October 11, 2018.
Organizer, Monica Munoz Martinez: The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas. October 3, 2018.
Member, Liberal Arts Council of Chairs. September 2017 - September 2018.
Organizer, Rogelio Saenz: Demography is not Destiny: Policy and Social Change in Texas. September 10, 2018.
Organizer, Jose Carlos de la Puente: Native Migrants, the Spanish Empire, and the Law. May 3, 2018.
Member, Search Committee - United States Immigration History. September 2017 - April 2018.
Melissa Stuckey: Boley, Indian Territory: Freedom and the All-Black Town. April 12, 2018.
Melissa Stuckey: Meet Me In Boley: The Historian, The Non-Profit, and the All Black Town. April 12, 2018.
Participant, Indigenous Borderlands of the Americas An International Symposium sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Southwest. April 6, 2018 - April 7, 2018.
Organizer, Conference on 2018 Mexican National Elections and Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations. April 5, 2018.
Participant, Cynthia Radding: Indigenous Landscapes and Colonial Boundaries: Reading Nature into Colonial Archives. April 5, 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, Teachers College, Columbia University. December 2017 - February 2018.
Organizer, Aurora Chang: Dra. Aurora Chang's presentation argues that undocumented students' quest to achieve academically simultaneously cultivates an empowering self-identity while forcing them to involuntarily perform the role of infallible non-citizen citizen. Her book, The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students, weaves together two distinct and powerfully related sources of knowledge: (1) her journey/transition from a once uncoumented immigrant from Guatemala to a huperdocumented academic, and (2) five years of ongoing national research on the identity, education, and agency of undocumented college students. February 23, 2018.
Organizer, Tyina Steptoe: Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City. February 22, 2018.
Organizer, Tyina Steptoe: History in the Key of Life: Listening to Houston's Polycultural Past. February 22, 2018.
Organizer, Flannery Burke: the Bridge to A Land Apart: the Southwest and the Nation. February 1, 2018.
Organizer, Flannery Burke: From Nuclear Reservations to Multi-ethnic Suburbs: Politics and Culture in the Southwest. February 1, 2018.

2017

Reviewer / Referee, Tenure and Promotion Review - Western Washington University. July 2017 - December 2017.
Member, Scholarships and Financial Aid. January 2017 - December 2017.
Member, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board - Mexican American History Curricula Representative. April 2017 - November 2017.
Organizer, Book Talk - Cary Cordova: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco. November 27, 2017.
Chair, Social Science Research Council Mellon Mays Initiative Graduate Conference. July 2017.
Organizer, caminos cruzados lecture series: slavery and segregation. September 2016 - June 2017.
Organizer, Hosted Andres Resendez, Bancroft Award Winner for The Other Slavery. February 2017.
Chair, Speaker: Introduced Andres Resendez, author, The Other Slavery: the Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement. February 16, 2017.

2016

Expert Reviewer of Textbook, Texas Freedom Network. October 2016 - November 2016.
Expert Review of Proposed Textbook, Texas Freedom Network. January 2016 - November 2016.
Member, Scholarships and Financial Aid. September 1, 2015 - September 1, 2016.
Member, Speaker Series. September 1, 2015 - September 1, 2016.
Organizer, Caminos Cruzados Lecture Series: Ana Elizabeth Rosas. September 1, 2015 - September 1, 2016.
Organizer, Caminos Cruzados Lecture Series: Felipe Hinojosa. September 1, 2015 - September 1, 2016.
Organizer, Speaker: John Moran Gonzalez / Refusing to Forget: State Violence and the Texas border, 1910-1920. September 1, 2015 - June 1, 2016.
Volunteer, Translator - English to Spanish / Spanish to English. September 1, 2015 - June 1, 2016.
Member, Scholarships and Financial Aid. January 2016 - April 2016.
Member, Scholarships and Financial Aid. January 2016 - April 2016.

2015

Organizer, Arturo Arias: Latino Immigration and the Ameriican Dream / From 'El Norte' to 'La bestia'. September 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
Organizer, University Lecture Series: Latino Immigration and the American Dream. May 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
Member, Online Resource Grant Prize Library Committee. September 1, 2014 - September 1, 2015.
Member, Scholarships and Financial Aid. September 1, 2014 - September 1, 2015.
Member, Speaker Committee, Department of History. September 1, 2014 - September 1, 2015.
Moderator, The History of Cultural Issues Related to Disability and Latino/as, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution. July 23, 2015 - July 24, 2015.
Speaker, Conversation on Latino/as and the ADA, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. July 23, 2015 - July 24, 2015.
Moderator, Activism and Advocacy: Conversations on Latinos and the ADA, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution. July 1, 2015.
Organizer, Conference: Presencias Urgentes: Latino Communities and the 25th anniversary of the ADA. September 1, 2014 - June 1, 2015.
Organizer, Lecture Series: Latino Communities and the 25th anniversary of the ADA. September 1, 2014 - May 1, 2015.
Co-Chair, Taylor Distinguished Lecture: Gayatri Spivak / Our World / Feb 2, 2015. January 1, 2014 - May 1, 2015.
Reviewer / Referee, Vanderbilt University Press Manuscript: Medicine and Nation-building in the Americas. November 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015.

2014

Organizer, Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico. November 1, 2014 - December 1, 2014.
Organizer, Behind the Texas Miracle: Workplace Injuries and Immigrant Activism. September 1, 2014 - October 1, 2014.

2012

Member, Social Science Research Council Mellon Mays Graduate Program Summer Conference. September 1, 2007 - September 1, 2012.

2011

Construction Survey Interviewer, Workers Defense Project. May 1, 2011 - September 1, 2011.

2008

Advisory Board Member, Workers Defense Project. September 1, 2006 - July 1, 2008.

2006

Co-Chair, Mellon-Mays Summer Conference, Washington University - St. Louis. September 1, 2005 - September 1, 2006.
Co-Chair, Abriendo Brecha Conference: Activist Scholarship. September 1, 2005 - May 1, 2006.

2005

Member, Summer Conference Planning Board, Social Science Research Council, Mellon Mays Graduate Fellowship Program. September 1, 2001 - September 1, 2005.