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The CMAS/Voces Oral History Collaborative Fellowship is intended for graduate students or faculty members at the University of Texas at Austin who wish to fast-track their oral history work on a project about the Latina/o/x experience in the U.S. The fellowship allows the Fellow to lead a team of interviewers using the Multiple Individual Interview Sessions (MIIS) methodology developed by the Voces Oral History Center to conduct up to 15 individual interviews over two days. The Fellow will help train interviewers (along with experienced Voces staff), develop a questionnaire, and conduct a minimum of three of the fifteen interviews. CMAS/Voces provides the Fellow with interview documentation, raw transcripts, and access to copies of the interviews to facilitate research. The interviews will be housed at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection on the UT-Austin campus, as part of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) oral history collection. Professional videographers, photographers, and photo scanners are provided to handle technical aspects while the Fellow and interviewers focus on interview contents. Past topics have included the Macondo Writers Workshop in San Antonio, the Colegio Altamirano in Hebbronville, TX, and San Rafael church in Concho, AZ. The Fellowship provides an honorarium of $2,500 upon successful completion, which includes training interviewers, planning and coordinating work, conducting interviews, and submitting a journal article to the US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal within 9 months of the interviews. The Fellow must be available for the project over spring/summer 2026, including the first week of June 2026 for a weeklong Voces Oral History Summer Institute in Austin.

The Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mexican American Studies is offered by the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Supported by the Office of the President, this postdoctoral fellowship was established in memory of Professor Carlos Eduardo Castañeda (1896–1958), a UT Austin alumnus, librarian, and faculty member who was instrumental in the creation of the renowned LLILAS Benson Latin American Collection. The fellowship provides a two-year appointment period beginning September 1, 2026 and ending August 31, 2028. Fellows are expected to reside in the Austin area during the academic years of appointment and actively participate in Latino Studies activities at UT Austin. They must engage with and/or make use of the archival materials at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Collection, and make a public presentation to a Latino Studies audience on a topic researched during the fellowship period. The fellowship is designed for those in the early stages of their academic career, with applicants required to have completed their doctoral degree within the three years prior to the beginning of the fellowship year. The fellowship provides a $60,000 annual stipend, shared office space, research and travel funds, and health insurance benefits. Fellows are expected to acknowledge the support of Latino Studies and other UT Austin resources in any projects or publications that emerge from the fellowship year. Current UT Austin faculty members and recent UT Austin doctoral recipients are not eligible to apply.