Aliza S. Wong, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean of the Honors College, an Associate Professor of History, and the Director of European Studies. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Wong has been honored with several teaching awards, including the Phi Alpha Theta Distinguished Faculty Award, the Hemphill-Wells New Faculty Teaching Award, the Mortar Board Society’s Outstanding Faculty Award, the Alumni Association New Faculty Award, the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the Eta Omicron Nu Distinguished Faculty Award, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the President’s Excellence in Diversity Award, the Texas Tech Inclusive Excellence Award. Most recently, Dr. Wong was selected as one of YWCA’s Women of Excellence for her work in Social Justice. Aliza Wong is a two-time Fulbright Scholar and was recently named a Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Professor. Dr. Wong is a specialist in modern Italian history with a concentration on southern question discourse, race, nationalism, and identity. Her book, Race and Nation in Liberal Italy, 1861- 1911: Meriodionalism, Empire, and Diaspora (Palgrave, 2006). She also edited The Texas Liberators: Veteran Narratives from World War II, an extension of the Texas Liberator Project generously supported by the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. The project features an app, an educational website, interactive maps, and digital archives, and a traveling museum exhibit. More information on the Texas Liberator Project can be found at http://www.texasliberators.org. She is also the producer and executive producer of the documentary film, Narratives of Modern Genocide, directed by Paul Hunton and funded by the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. More information can be found at http://endgenocidetx.org.