Hannah Shepherd

Hannah Shepherd is currently a graduate student in the History department at East Texas A&M University. Her primary research interests include South Asia, the Middle East, and Islam. She has a forthcoming publication in the Journal of South Texas entitled: “Islam in Texas Prisons: a Civil Rights Struggle for Religious Freedom 1970-2000s”. The Mary M. Hughes Fellowship will fund travel to El Paso, TX for research on British Indian Immigration to the area in the early twentieth century. This research contributes to a larger project: Crossing Borders, Facing Barriers: Immigration Policy and Societal Perceptions of British Indian Immigrants in Early 20th-Century El Paso, Texas.