Dr. Carolina Castillo Crimm is a retired professor of
history who is using her many years of experience to write
historical novels about eighteen century Spanish and Mexican
Texas.
She was born and brought up in Mexico City, The daughter of a California-educated Mexican father and American mother was born and raised in Mexico City, but after her father died in 1963, her mother brought the family to Key West, FL where Crimm’s mother taught elementary school.
She finished her BA at the University of Miami before moving to Texas to finish her MA, her MA at Texas Tech University and
her Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin under Dr.
Nettie Lee Benson in Latin American History. She taught
high school for 20 years before starting at Sam Houston State
University in 1992. She is acclaimed for her teaching,
winning local and state-wide teaching awards, including the
prestigious Piper Award as one of the best teachers in Texas.
She is an entertaining speaker in high demand by
educational, historical and community groups in Texas and
across the country.
She is married and lives with her husband in Huntsville,
Texas.
Bobby K. Marks, SHSU president, congratulates this year's winners of the Faculty Excellence Awards: Caroline Crimm, Excellence in Teaching; Beverly Irby, Excellence in Research; and Thomas Camfield, Excellence in Service.