Biography and expertise
University of Texas at Austin, PhD, 2022; University of Texas at San Antonio, MA, 2012; University of the Incarnate Word, BA, 2008
Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in History
University of Texas at Austin, 2022
Master's Degree
MA in History
Univ of Texas at San Antonio, 2012
Bachelor's Degree
BA in History
Univ of the Incarnate Word, 2008
Research Interests
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Carranza, J. A. (2026). One Historical Perspective on the Desexualization of People with Disabilities. In The Resource – Disability: Understanding Ableism, Sexual Violence, and Healthy Sexuality. National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Retrieved from https://www.nsvrc.org/blog_post/one-historical-perspective-on-the-desexualization-of-people-with-disabilities/
- Carranza, J. A. (2025). “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
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
- Other
Faculty Senate
- 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
