Call for Chapters: Llanera/os: The Mexican American and Central American Southern Plains since 1880

Building upon Los Llaneros: The Ethnic Mexican Southern Plains, 1500-1900, which will be out in 2026 with the University of Oklahoma Press, the editors announce plans for a second volume titled Llanera/os: The Mexican American and Central American Southern Plains since 1880. In the first volume, contributors from various fields uncovered a critically important borderland region between the Indigenous, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American cultural worlds. To continue that groundbreaking work, we seek contributions on the Mexican American, Central American, and Latina/o experience in the Southern Great Plains (New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado). We welcome contributions from such fields as history, art history, anthropology, literature, folklore, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies as well as art, poetry, and fiction. Contributions from other fields are also encouraged.

Please submit a 200-word proposal abstract and a 1–2 page CV to the editors (Joel Zapata, Aimee Villarreal, and Alex Hunt) by January 15, 2026. If the proposal is accepted for the edition, full essay drafts will be due September 15, 2026. 

Proposals should be sent to joel.zapata@oregonstate.edu with the email subject reading “Llanera/os Volume II Submission.” 

The editors will respond with a decision by January 30, 2026.