Ana Martinez-Catsam, Ph.D.

Ana Martinez-Catsam, Ph.D.

Dr. Martinez-Catsam specializes in Gilded Age and Progressive Era Texas with an emphasis on epidemics, newspapers, and the Mexican American experience. She earned her Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. She is currently Professor and Chair of the University of Texas Permian Basin Department of History, as well as  Interim Chair of the Department of Literature and Language. Her recent publications include articles in the Journal of South Texas, Journal of the West, as well as “Our Local Board of Health Asserts that No Epidemic of Any Kind Exists in San Antonio: State vs. Local Expertise in the 1903 Yellow Fever Quarantine” in the July 2020 issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Dr. Martinez-Catsam has served on the Al Lowman Memorial Prize Award Committee and the Catarino and Evangelina Hernández Research Fellowship Committee of the TSHA since 2016.