Monica Muñoz Martinez

Monica Muñoz Martinez is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Department of History, holding the Clyde Rabb Littlefield Chair in Texas History. She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (2012) and an AB from Brown University.

Her research focuses on

• anti-Mexican racial violence in Texas (1910-1930)
• state-sponsored violence and collective memory
• public history and digital humanities
• US-Mexico borderlands history
• Latinx communities in the US

Her book The Injustice Never Leaves You received multiple awards, including the Lawrence Levine Award and Caughey Prize. She leads the digital project Mapping Violence and co-founded the non-profit Refusing to Forget. Since the 2022 Uvalde shooting, she has directed multidisciplinary research to support rural mass shooting survivors.

Scientific recognition includes

• Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program (2017)
• MacArthur Foundation 'Genius Grant' (2021)
• Friend of History Award (OAH, 2021)

She teaches courses on US history, Mexican American history, borderlands history, and public/digital history. Her work has been featured in major media outlets like the New York Times and NPR.