Dr. Ellwyn Stoddard (Professor Emeritus)
Dr. Stoddard was a faculty member at UTEP since 1965, he taught in areas of Southwestern Cultures, Field Research Methods, Social Organization and Technological Change. The founder of the Association of Borderland Scholars, he commenced his fifth decade as a leading researcher in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. With more than 100 books, chapters, professional articles and major research reports, he has been listed in more than a dozen honor biographies including Who's Who in America and the World's Who's Who of Authors. He received the Distinguished Faculty Award for Research (UTEP) in 1990, and his encyclopedic volume, Borderlands Sourcebook, received the Southwest Book Award in 1984. llwyn Reed Stoddard passed away in his home on July 30, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Elaine Stoddard, their 8 children, 31 grandchildren and 56 great-grandchildren.