Center for Big Bend Studies

About the Center for Big Bend Studies

The Center for Big Bend Studies, established by Sul Ross State University in 1982, supports and promotes archaeological and historical activities in the Trans-Pecos and Big Bend region of Texas and northern Mexico.

The center provides educational opportunities to university students, the public, and outside researchers.

The director of the center oversees the administration of the Center for Big Bend Studies and is aided in policy decisions by the Advisory Council.

Accepting Conference Presentations

The CBBS is accepting abstracts of 200 words for thirty-minute presentations in our November conference. Topics may cover aspects of the history, archaeology, or culture of the Big Bend and/or Chihuahua and Coahuila, Mexico. Deadline October 9. For more details and submission guidelines, click here.

CBBS Mission

The Center for Big Bend Studies fosters interdisciplinary scholarship of the diverse prehistoric, historic, and modern cultures of the borderlands region of the United States and Mexico, with emphasis on the area encompassed by Trans-Pecos Texas and north-central Mexico.

The center is committed to the recovery, protection, and sharing of this region's rich cultural legacy through dynamic programs of research, education, public outreach, and publication.