Dr. Alana de Hinojosa

  • Assistant Professor at History, College of Liberal Arts

Awards

2025

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Teaching Award, Texas State University. December 2025 - Present
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Service Award, Texas State University. December 2025 - Present

2024

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Antonia I. CastaƱeda Prize, National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. April 26, 2024

2023

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Mary M. Hughes Research Fellowship, Texas State Historical Association. January 1, 2023

2022

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Ray Allen Billington Prize, Western History Association. December 30, 2022

2021

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Dean's Fund for Diversity and Racial Inequality, University of California, Los Angeles. October 1, 2021

2020

  • Award / Honor Recipient: The Founders' Dissertation Fellowship, Western Association of Women Historians. April 1, 2020

2019

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Latinx Geographies Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Latinx Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. April 26, 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Meek Award Poetry Prize, 1st Place, The Florida Review & Aquifer. March 25, 2019

2018

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Pushcart Prize, The Normal School (Fresno State University). December 4, 2018
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Best of the Net, Duende. December 1, 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program, University of California, Los Angeles. June 10, 2018 - September 25, 2018

2017

  • Award / Honor Nominee: PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, PEN America. 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Summer Poetry Contest, 2nd Place, The Blue Mesa Review. November 12, 2017

2015

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Dean's Scholar Award, University of California, Los Angeles. September 25, 2015