Associate Professor
Department of History
John Weber
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Dr. Weber is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Graduate Program Director for the M.A. Program in History. He specializes in U.S. labor and immigration history, with a focus on the U.S.-Mexico border region. His publications include From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century (UNC Press, 2015) ​and William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State (University of Texas Press, 2024).
Ph.D. in History, College of William & Mary, (2008)
M.A. in History, College of William & Mary, (2002)
B.A. in History, Vanderbilt University, (2000)
Books
- (2024). William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State. University of Texas Press.
- Weber, J. (2015). From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century. University of North Carolina Press.
- 2017: Short-Term Research Fellowship, Huntington Library
- 2015: Finalist, Weber-Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, Western History Association
- 2008: Summerlee Foundation Fellowship, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
- 2006: John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship, Texas State Historical Association
- 2005: George Pozzetta Dissertation Research Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
- 2002: Fellow, Oaxaca Summer Institute of Modern Mexican History