Monica Muñoz Martinez is a scholar of Mexican-American history current serving as an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Martinez was previously the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Texas State Historical Association. She has received praise for her work on several public history projects and her first book, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas was published in 2018 and received numerous awards. In 2021 she received a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. Background Monica Muñoz Martinez was born in Uvalde, Texas. She received her B.A. from Brown University's Department of Ethnic Studies and American Civilization and her Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of American Studies. After completing her doctorate, she conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin with the Center for Mexican American Studies studying the history and legacy of anti-Mexican violence along the Texas borderlands. Academic career Muñoz Martinez was the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Her areas of research include Latino studies, immigration, and the history of violence and policing, with an emphasis on the history of anti-Mexican violence in the Southwestern United States and the legacy violence has on people today. Discussing her goal of shedding light on the legacy of violence, she stated, "I wanted to study the longer legacies of violence," ... "Historians think in terms of concrete time frames. But now I was meeting descendants who were still being impacted by the violence. It still resonates today." She is a co-founder of Refusing to Forget, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching and raising public awareness of current and past racial violence in Texas. Her first book The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas was published by Harvard University Press in 2018 and has received numerous awards and positive reviews in academic journals. Commenting on her book she stated her goal was attempting “to recover history that’s been forgotten or disavowed and make it public." The book is centered around three episodes of violence in the Texas borderlands: the 1910 lynching of Antonio Rodríguez; the 1915 murders of Jesus Bazán and Antonio Longoria by