January 2026
As part of a new initiative, IRT Executive Director LaShawnda Brooks will be selecting an alumni book to read each month. She encourages all alumni to share in this endeavor providing commentary on the book in the comments section below.
Dr. Monica Muñoz Martinez’s The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas is this month’s selection.
Monica was an IRT Intern in 2005 and continued to be involved in the IRT as part of the IRT Summer Workshop Faculty for the subsequent six workshops.
Monica (third from the right) during one of her first IRT Summer Workshops.
She is currently an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas. Not only an educator and public historian, but Monica is also an award-winning author of The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas, (Harvard University Press Sept 2018). Many national media outlets feature her research. Her current project, Mapping Violence, focuses on recording cases of racial violence in Texas during 1900 – 1930.
Monica was named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellowship is unrestricted and unofficially known as the “Genius Grant.” The MacArthur Foundation considers that the fellowship “is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person’s originality, insight, and potential.”
Monica received her master’s degree from Brown University and her Ph.D. from Yale University.
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