Monica M. Martinez also won MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 2021 for her work. Monica Muñoz Martinez believes everyone should have access to truthful accounts of their own history – including ...

forgotten historical story from Texas provides new insight on current tragedies like the deadly shooting at an El Paso Wal-Mart two years ago. Newly minted MacArthur Fellow and "Genius Grant" ...

Monica Muñoz Martinez was born and raised in the South Texas town of Uvalde, a hundred miles west of San Antonio. Today, the 37-year-old is one of the world’s top experts on the history of racial ...

CHICAGO — A Latina historian devoted to keeping alive the stories of long-dead victims of racial violence along the Texas-Mexico border is among this year’s MacArthur fellows and recipients of “genius ...

Monica Muñoz Martinez, an educator, a historian and an award-winning author, describes her work as “trying to recover history that’s been forgotten or disavowed and make it public." She does just that ...

A University of Texas historian devoted to keeping alive the stories of long-dead victims of racial violence along the Texas-Mexico border is among this year's MacArthur fellows and recipients of ...

Yale Law School faculty member Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 J.D., a poet and lawyer whose own imprisonment as a teenager led him to become an advocate for incarcerated people, is one of three Yale ...

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Monica Muñoz Martinez is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. Meet all this year’s honorees at ...

Monica Muñoz Martinez believes everyone should have access to truthful accounts of their own history – including the dark, difficult or troubling parts. Martinez, an associate professor at the ...

Monica Muñoz Martinez is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program launched in 2022 as a ...