Marcus Golding

Marcus Golding earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2025, with a dissertation titled The Price of Doing Business: Foreign Oil Companies and the Venezuelan Petroleum Industry (1936–1976). He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the UT History Department and serves as Director of Educational Operations at ClioVis, a UT-based edtech startup that helps students visualize connections through interactive mind maps and timelines across disciplines from history to business and biochemistry. 

Golding is also the co-founder of Red Historia Venezuela, a nonprofit dedicated to digitizing endangered Venezuelan archival collections and making them freely accessible online. His research examines the intersections of foreign petroleum firms, corporate social responsibility practices, and national development goals, and his book based on his dissertation is under contract with Bloomsbury (expected 2026). He has published widely in academic journals and edited volumes, presented internationally, and secured over $275,000 in grants to support historical preservation projects. 

A member of the Clements Center Graduate Fellows program since 2019, Golding’s work bridges scholarship, public history, and digital innovation to expand access to historical knowledge and connect past and present.