UNT Special Collections 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee
ToniAnn Treviño
Project Title
Book Chapter: “We Try to Be Good Neighbors: Battles for Community-Based Treatment in a Model City.”
Project Description
With generous support from UNT Special Collections, Treviño will conduct archival research to develop her book chapter, “We Try to Be Good Neighbors: Battles for Community-Based Treatment in a Model City.” This chapter reveals how ethnic Mexicans in San Antonio, Texas navigated burgeoning resources for drug rehabilitation throughout the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, connecting the emergence of community-based drug rehabilitation modalities in the city’s Mexican neighborhoods to Great Society programs. This research will utilize the Model Cities Program Records (1966-1974) at UNT Special Collections to meticulously trace how San Antonio’s drug treatment modalities developed amid critical federal and state policy transformations.
Biography
ToniAnn Treviño is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas, where she also serves as associate director of undergraduate studies for the Department of History. She is a scholar of Mexican American history, with a focus on the war on drugs, urban history, and policing in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. With funding from UNT Special Collections, Treviño will conduct research to complete her first book, San Antonio After Sundown: The Long War on Drugs and Envisioning Rehabilitation in Mexican Neighborhoods. This historical monograph examines how ethnic Mexicans in San Antonio, Texas experienced overlapping anti-narcotics crusades and crafted community-based responses to drug policing through religious, medical, and social institutions between 1945 and 1979.
