José Roberto Campos Cordero is a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary History from the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México. His research examines the historical geography and territorial development of Texas during the late Spanish and early Mexican periods, with a focus on mapping, land use, and the expansion of cotton cultivation.
He is the author of “La frontera norte de la Nueva España, el territorio cartográfico a finales del siglo XVIII” (New Spain’s Northern Frontier: Cartographic Territory in the Late 18th Century), published by the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (2024), and “El reino de las Mesteñas: La territorialidad de Texas durante la introducción de las plantaciones de algodón, 1818–1845” (Mesteña Kingdom: Texas Territoriality During the Introduction of Cotton, 1818–1845), currently under peer review with Instituto Mora.
Campos Cordero has presented his work at academic conferences in Mexico and the United States, including the Latin American Association of Rural History Congress, the Universidad Autónoma de Guanajuato’s Regional History Seminar, and the Meeting of International Historians of Mexico. His doctoral studies are supported by several competitive awards, including the Fulbright-García Robles Scholarship, the SECIHTI/CONTEX Fellowship for Doctoral Studies Abroad, the E. D. Farmer International Fellowship, and the Tinker Field Research Grant.
