Erika Bravo

Research Interests

Dr. Erika Bravo is a Research Partner Historian at Texas A&M University conducting historical research in support of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). The DPAA is an agency of the Department of Defense that finds and identifies missing American service personnel from World War II to present conflicts. Dr. Bravo conducts research on World War II losses in Europe and the Pacific, and has worked on translation, archival, digitization, data extraction, and foundational research projects for the Agency. At Texas A&M, she supervises undergraduate research, leads a history internship, and teaches courses on immigration and military history.

Dr. Bravo received her MA and PhD in History from Texas A&M University. Her transnational research explored the effects of war on population movement, specifically ethnic German immigration to North America after World War II. Her book chapter in European Mennonites and the Holocaust (2020) was published by University of Toronto Press in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is currently working on a book manuscript that features the uprooted ethnic German settlement of Chortitza, Ukraine in a case study on the role of identity in immigration. Dr. Bravo is the editor of the Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Adam Seipp