The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will host a presentation from the Center’s 2018-2019 Doctoral Fellow, Patrick Troester, on Wednesday, April 3rd at 5:30 pm in the Center’s Lyceum Room #120. Troester will present on his fellowship research project Gender, Kinship, and Colonial Violence in Texas, 1820-1880.

Troester will present preliminary findings from his research in the collections of the Center of Southwest Studies. In particular, he will focus on the Anglo-American colonization of Texas between 1820 and 1880, examining the violent conflicts that process provoked with the region’s Native American and ethnic Mexican peoples. The talk will explore the ways in which gender and kinship shaped the experiences, actions, and understandings of both Euro-American and indigenous peoples during this transformative period.

Patrick Troester is the Center’s 2018-2019 doctoral fellow in Southwestern history. The fellowship is a collaborative effort between the Center, Fort Lewis College, and the graduate program in the history department at Southern Methodist University. Troester spent the academic year in residence at the Center conducting research in the archives, in addition to teaching for the College’s department of history.