Raúl A. Ramos
Assistant Professor (United States, Mexican-American)
558 Agnes Arnold Hall
(713)743-3116
raramos@uh.edu

Raúl Ramos received his A.B. in History and Latin American Studies from
Princeton University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1999. He joined the History faculty at the University of Houston in 2002 from his position as an assistant professor in History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Ramos was a Fellow at the William Clements Center and for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University from 2000-2001.

Teaching:
Dr. Ramos’s teaching involves the intersection of a wide variety of historical sub-fields. At the University of Houston he teaches Chicano/a History to 1910, History of the American West, Texas to 1865 and Texas Mexican History. His courses concentrate on historical processes such as conquest, colonization, social formations, migrations and cultural change.

Research:
Professor Ramos’s current manuscript project examines the development of Mexican Texan society in present-day San Antonio, TX spanning the Spanish, Mexican and American periods. He is generally interested in the historical development of identities, such as ethnic, national, regional and class. He has given numerous scholarly and public presentations, some of which are listed below

Selected Publications:
“Finding the Balance: Bexar in Mexican/Indian Relations.” In Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, eds. Elliott Young and, Samuel Truett. (Duke University Press, 2004).

Professor Ramos has given many conference presentations and is working on a book manuscript on the development of Mexica Texan society in San Antonio.


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