Paloma Ortega awarded 2022 Clement Prize for best thesis in support of US constitutional principles

Congratulations to Paloma Ortega ‘22, winner of the Percival W. Clement Prize for the best thesis in the support of the principles of the US Constitution and the first ten amendments! Paloma’s project, “Fantasmas y Raices de La Matanza: Racial Violence on the Border and the Unfinished Project of Chicanismo,” investigates land disputes and targeted disenfranchisement in southern Texas, with a focus on the Texas Rangers’ role in lynching ethnic Mexicans.