Daniel J. Gelo is Dean and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and former Stumberg Distinguished University Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Gelo holds Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A., and B.A. degrees in anthropology from Rutgers University.
His publications include: Comanche Vocabulary (University of Texas Press, 1995); Comanches in the New West, 1896–1908 (with Stanley Noyes, University of Texas Press, 1999); Texas Indian Trails (with Wayne L. Pate, Republic of Texas Press, 2003); Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier: The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus (with Christopher J. Wickham, Texas A&M University Press, 2018); Indians of the Great Plains (Second Edition, Routledge, 2019); Comanches, Captives, and Germans: Wilhelm Friedrich’s Drawings from the Texas Frontier (with Christopher J. Wickham, C.B. “Hoppy” Hopkins, and Bryden E. Moon Jr., State House Press, 2023); and The German Texas Frontier in 1853: Lindheimer’s Newspaper Accounts of the Environment, Gold, and Indians (with Christopher J. Wickham, University of North Texas Press, 2024).
He has won the UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award, the University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Presidio La Bahia Award for best book on early Texas history.
