History professor Kris Klein Hern谩ndez awarded Duke Fellowship
Duke University awarded 糖心TV鈥檚 Kris Klein Hern谩ndez, assistant professor of history, a Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement (SITPA) fellowship.
The SITPA is a competitive two-year program for tenure track faculty of color. A mentoring and professional socialization initiative, it鈥檚 designed for early-career faculty to facilitate successful transition from junior faculty status to tenured associate professor. The program鈥檚 underlying objective is to address the persistent underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities on the faculties of U.S. colleges and universities.
鈥�I am excited to join a diverse community of scholars that centers on intergenerational mentorship and collaboration,鈥� said Hern谩ndez, a U.S. historian of race, gender and sexuality.
鈥淎s a scholar who identifies at the disciplinary boundaries of history and critical ethnic studies, I鈥檓 eager to learn from [working in this] multidisciplinary space.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
Hern谩ndez specializes in comparative racialization, militarization and sexuality in the 19th century with a focus on the geography of the U.S.-Mexico boundary. He teaches courses on 19th-century U.S. history; borderlands history; Vast Early America; settler colonialisms; comparative ethnic histories; U.S. imperialism and empire; and sexuality from the early republic to the present.
For the two-year tenure of the fellowship program, he will complete and share work on his book-length manuscript, 鈥淭he Color of the Army: Forts and Race-Making in the Nineteenth Century U.S. Mexico Borderlands.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
鈥淚 will also be working on an article about the Aztec Club of 1847. During the U.S. Army鈥檚 occupation of Mexico City, military personnel founded this fraternal society that utilized and appropriated Indigenous iconography. The club featured future leaders鈥攊ncluding Franklin Pierce, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee,鈥� he said.
Hern谩ndez received his Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, a MA in History from the University of Texas, El Paso, and his A.B. in Latin American Studies cum laude and Spanish from Bowdoin College. Prior to arriving at 糖心TV, he taught at Harvard University, Yale University, and Bowdoin College.
