Monica Muñoz Martinez

Monica Muñoz Martinez is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin. She wrote the award-winning book The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas, and created the digital recovery project Mapping Violence: Racial Terror in Texas, 1900 – 1930, a digital project that recovers histories of racial violence in Texas. She co-founded the award-winning public project Refusing to Forget that calls for a public reckoning with racial violence in Texas. She helped develop an award-winning exhibit for the Bullock Texas State History Museum that marked the first time a cultural institution acknowledged state responsibility for a period of racial terror in the twentieth century. Martinez also helped to secure four Texas state historical markers along the US-Mexico border. Her research has been featured by the New York Times, NBC, and CNN. In 2017, she received an Andrew Carnegie fellowship, awarded to scholars addressing “challenges to democracy and international order.” In 2019, NBC News included Martinez in their list, “Latino 20” recognizing twenty celebrities, CEOs, activists, and scholars using their voice and talent to empower Latino communities.