Biography and education
University of Texas at Austin, PhD, 2022; University of Texas at San Antonio, MA, 2012; University of the Incarnate Word, BA, 2008
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Carranza, J. A. (n.d.). “Sex Isn’t Just Having Babies…": Sex Education for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in the US, 1960-1970s. In The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (pp. 17–21). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Carranza, J. A. (2024, July). Book Review: Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State by Amy C. Sullivan. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Lorene K. Lane Rogers. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rogers-lorene-katherine-lane
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Marie Delalondre Dietzel. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dietzel-marie-phelomene-delalondre
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Helen Darden Thomas. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/thomas-helen-darden
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Student Assembly Travel Award, University of Texas at Austin. 2020 - 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Kenneth Spencer Research Library Travel Award, University of Kansas. 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grant, Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 2019

Featured service activities
- Reviewer / Referee
Annals of Internal Medicine
- Member
Non-Tenure Line Faculty Committee
- Organizer
Symposium on Gender, History, & Sexuality, University of Texas at Austin
- Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Women's History