Faculty Profile for Dr. Alana Bunstock de Hinojosa

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Dr. Alana Bunstock de Hinojosa
Assistant Professor — History
TMH 202
phone: (512) 245-2142
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Alana de Hinojosa is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. She holds a PhD in Chicana/o Studies from UCLA and certificates in American Indian Studies (UCLA), Writing Pedagogy (UCLA), and Digital Public Humanities (George Mason University). Alana is also an alum of Hampshire College where she studied Latina/o Studies and Creative Writing. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow and IUPLR/UIC-Mellon Latina/o Studies Fellow. Prior to joining TXST, Alana was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the School of Transborder Studies at ASU and a Digital Public Humanities Fellow at the ASU Hispanic Research Center. Alana's research is concerned with histories of displacement, diaspora, and refusal, and what these have to do with the Río Grande. Her current book project focuses on the Chamizal Land Dispute between the United States and Mexico and the landmark Chamizal Treaty of 1964. As a historian, she specializes in U.S.-Mexico borderlands history (specifically, histories of the El Paso-Cd. Juárez borderlands), Chicana/o history, Texas history, and Latinx Geographies.

Research Interests

 Chicana/o Studies, Mexican American Studies, American Indian Studies, Indigenous Studies, Borderlands Studies, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, Urban History, Latinx Geographies, Human Geography, Environmental History, Archival Studies, Oral History, Public History, Digital Public Humanities

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, A. C. (n.d.). El Paso County Historical Marker: Elvira “Vila” Villa Escajeda (1920-2022). El Paso, Texas: El Paso County Historical Commission.
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, A. C. (n.d.). Changes in the River: The Natural Consequences of Controlling El Río Grande at the Pass of the North. In Nature and Place in the Lone Star State: Environmental Histories of Texas. Texas Tech University Press.
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, A. C. (n.d.). Review of Omar Valerio-Jiménez’s Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship. The American Historical Review.
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, A. C. (2024). Review of James V. Mestaz’s Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico. H-Water: H-Net Network on the History of Water. H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Retrieved from https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20023535/de-hinojosa-mestaz-strength-waters-history-indigenous-mobilization-northwest
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, A. C. (n.d.). Roundtable Panelist: “BorderLandscapes: Centering Brown Spaces, Places, and Peoples.”

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Antonia I. Castañeda Prize, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. April 26, 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Mary M. Hughes Research Fellowship, Texas State Historical Association. January 1, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Founders' Dissertation Fellowship, Western Association of Women Historians. April 1, 2020
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Ray Allen Billington Prize, Western History Association. December 30, 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dean's Fund for Diversity and Racial Inequality, University of California, Los Angeles. October 1, 2021

Selected Grants

  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, Alana Camille. Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Funded: June 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, Alana Camille. CMAS-Benson Latin American Collection Research Fellowship, Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Institutional (Higher Ed). (Funded: July 2022 - 2022). Grant.
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, Alana Camille. Center for the Study of Women Travel Grant, Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles, Institutional (Higher Ed). (Funded: 2021 - Present). Grant.
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, Alana Camille. Shirley Hune Inter-Ethnic/Inter-Racial Studies Research Grant, American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1600. (Funded: 2020 - 2021). Grant.
  • Bunstock de Hinojosa, Alana Camille. Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, Chicano Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1450. (Funded: 2019 - 2020). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Public History Committee
September 2024-Present
Participant
S.T.E.P.
September 2024-June 2025
Coordinator / Organizer
Latinx Geographies AAG Specialty Group
July 2023-May 2025
Participant
Thesis Prospectus Colloquium
December 5, 2024
Participant
Bobcat Day
October 26, 2024