Education:
B.A., Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Long Beach; M.A., Latin American Studies, California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside, June 2024

Dissertation:
(Im)migrant Ecologies: Relating Beyond Borders

Advisor:
Andrea Smith, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Research Topics:
Critical migrant and refugee studies, memory studies, diaspora studies, felt theory, affect studies, Women of Color feminisms, abolition geographies, Latinx futurism, and decolonial theory

Mentor:
Laura Pulido, Ph.D., University of Oregon

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position:
Lecturer, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA

Education:
B.A., Honors, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Ph.D. Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Spring 2024

Dissertation:
Racial Microaggressions Research: Intersectionality, Coping Strategies, and Groups Impacted.

Advisor:
Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Ph.D.

Research Topic:
Racial Microaggressions

Mentor:
Andrea Romero, Ph.D., University of Arizona

Honors:
Small Grant Research Award, American Psychological Association, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict & Violence (Division 48), 2024

Jeffrey S. Tanaka Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, 2024

Barrick Graduate Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2023

Distinguished Student Contribution Award, American Psychological Association Division 44, 2023

Distinguished Research Student Award, American Psychological Association, Division 45, 2023

Best Scholarly Paper Award, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 2023

Stephen C. Rose Award, National Latinx Psychological Association, 2023

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position:
Dean's Research Associate for the College of Social Science and Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.

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Education:

B.A., Gender Studies and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside (expected completion: Spring 2026)

Dissertation:
Mexican American Communists, Alien Citizens, and the Labor, Immigration, and Cultural Politics of the Twentieth Century in Southern California

Advisor:
Jorge N. Leal, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Research Topics:
Immigration Studies, Labor Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Cultural Studies

Mentor:
Gaye Theresa Johnson, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023
Edna Bonacich Ethnic Studies Graduate Award, 2024

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Department of Ethnic Studies

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Education: 
B.A., English, SUNY Fredonia; M.S.Ed., Long Island University Brooklyn; Ph.D., Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY (expected completion: fall 2025)

Dissertation Title: 
A Good Education: Education Activism and Dominicans in New York City, 1961-2001

Advisor: 
José del Valle, Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Research Topics: 
New York City Education History and Ethnic Communities

Mentor: 
Jorge Luis Chinea, Ph.D., Wayne State University

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position: 
Doctoral Candidate

Education: 
B. Arch., Architectural Design, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain; M.A., Spanish and Latin American Literature, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain; Ph.D., Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, The Graduate Center, CUNY (expected completion: May 2025).

Dissertation:
Heretics on the global city: legacies of decolonial struggle, upward mobility, and urban displacement in Latinx, Latin American, and Afro-Portuguese literary narratives 

Advisor:
Carlos Riobó, Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY

Research Topics:
Territory, authority, and rights in contemporary in Caribbean and Afro-Portuguese literary narratives about the global city.

Mentor:
Mary Pat Brady, Ph.D., Cornell University

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate

Education:
B.A., Spanish and History, California State University, Channel Islands; M.A., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (expected completion: June 2025)

Dissertation:
Por Vida: Chicanx Teacher Activism in California Classrooms

Advisor:
Gabriela Arredondo, Ph.D, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic:
Chicanx teacher activism

Mentor:
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position: 
GSI, John R. Lewis College, UCSC

Education: B.A., Graphic Design, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; M.A., Art and Design, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Texas at El Paso, August 2024

Dissertation:
Border Soundscapes: Latinidad, Belonging, and Sense of Place in the Paso del Norte Region

Advisor:
Lucía Durá, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso

Research Topics:
Sound in the Borderlands

Mentor:
Steph Ceraso, Ph.D., University of Virginia

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position: 
Lecturer, University of Texas at El Paso

Education: A.A., Social and Behavioral Sciences, Santa Monica College; B.A., Chicana/o Studies and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., American Studies, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., Chicana/o Studies, University of New Mexico (expected completion: Spring 2026)

Dissertation:
Constellations of Oaxacan Worldmaking: Subversive Cultural Expressions in OaxaCalifornia

Advisor:
Irene Vasquez, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Research Topics:
Cultural production, OaxaCalifornia, and Community Movements

Mentor:
Daina Sanchez, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Honors:
Professional Development Scholarship, El Centro de la Raza, UNM

Special Project Funding, Center for Regional Studies, UNM Award Program, Southwest & Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities, 2023
El Puente Graduate Research Fellowship, El Centro de La Raza, UNM
CRS Project Fellowship, Center for Regional Studies, UNM
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, National Academies, 2023-2026
Professional Development Scholarship, El Centro de la Raza, UNM

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Research Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate

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Education:
B.A., Secondary Education, Centro Escolar Juana de Asbaje, Zamora, Mexico; M.E.H., History, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico; Ph.D., Latin American and Latino Studies and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz (expected completion: 2025)

Dissertation:
Queerness and Gender Performance in Indigenous P’urhépecha Communities in Michoacán and the United States

Advisor:
Jeffrey Erbig, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Mentor:
Francisco Galarte, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Honors:
Lionel Cantú Memorial Award. Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2024 

University of California, President Postdoctoral Fellowship. Finalist, 2024 

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Honorific Mention. March 2023 

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023; Research Working Group on The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory, Speculation. 2022 – 2023

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Summer Institute on Latino Humanities Studies Methodologies and Theories. University of Illinois. June 27 – July 10, 2022 

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate

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Education:
B.A., Spanish, University of California, Riverside; M.A., Spanish Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literature, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Spanish Sociolinguistics (expected completion: Spring 2026)

Dissertation:
A P'urhépecha ethnography in Southern California: Language, gender and racial microaggressions  in a transnational community

Advisor:
Claudia Holguin Mendoza, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Research Topics:
Language and gender, racial microaggressions, attitudes toward language

Mentor: 
Luz Ede-Hernandez, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position: 
Doctoral Candidate

Education:
B.A., Journalism, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba; M.A., Journalism, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY; Ph.D., Latin American, Iberian and Latino Culture, The Graduate Center, CUNY (expected graduation Spring 2025)

Dissertation:
Representing 'Cuban Color': Transnational Dialogues on Nation, Race, and Diaspora Between Havana and New York (1930-1950) / Representaciones del “color cubano”: diálogos transnacionales sobre nación, raza y diáspora en entre La Habana y Nueva York (1930-1950)

Advisor:
Carlos Riobó, Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

Research Topics:
Representation of Afro-Cuban imaginaries in Cuban literature and visual art in the first half of the 20th century 

Mentor: 
Alejandro de la Fuente, Ph.D., Harvard University

Honors:
Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2023-2024

Goizueta Graduate Research Fellowship, Cuban Heritage Collection,  University of Miami, 2023-2024

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

William Randolph Hearst Fellow, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, The Graduate Center,       CUNY, 2020-202

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate and Administrative Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies (CLACLS), The Graduate Center, CUNY

Education:
B.A., History, magna cum laude, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; M.A., Caribbean History, Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean; Ph.D., Atlantic History, Florida International University (expected completion: May 2025)

Dissertation:
Education as an ideological battlefield: State Legislation in the 1960’s

Advisor:
Julio Capó, Ph.D., Florida International University

Research Topics:
Educational policies between 1960's and 1990's and their use against communism during the Cold War.

Mentor: 
María de los Ángeles Torres, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate

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Education:
B.S., Environmental Studies and Policy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; M.P.A., University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; PhD, Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, 2024

Dissertation:
Exploring the influence of cultural complexity on the risk perceptions and natural disaster preparedness among Hispanic/Latino Families living with individuals with developmental disabilities in Central Florida

Advisor:
Abdul-Akeem Sadiq, Ph.D.

Research Topic: Public procurement, public-nonprofit partnerships, cross-government collaboration, inter-organizational collective action, decision-making in times of crisis, disaster risk communication, and cultural risk perception.

Mentor: Maritza Concha, Ph.D., University of Central Florida

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023
ASPA Founders Fellow, Pi Alpha Alpha, the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration, and Phi Theta Kappa.

Current Position:
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Public Administration, Tennessee State University

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Education:
B.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, Loyola Marymount University; M.A., English with emphasis on Cultural Studies and graduate certificate in Feminist Studies, Kansas State University; M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (expected completion: 2026)

Dissertation:
Venerations in Cyberspace: Chicanx Popular Catholicism, Latina Feminist Theology, and the Digital Transformation of La Virgen de Guadalupe's Altar

Advisor:
Dolores Inés Casillas, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Topic:
Guadalupana online community formation, digital performances of piety, digital cultural production, archive of memory

Mentor:
Karen Mary Davalos, Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Honors:
University of California President's Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2024-2025

Steve and Barbara Mendell Graduate Fellowship in Cultural Literacy, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023-2024

The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies-Advanced Doctoral Fellowship, 2023-2024

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

University of California, Santa Barbara Regents Fellowship, 2019-2020

Current Position: Doctoral Candidate

Education:
B.A., Gender and Sexuality Studies and Psychology; B.A. in Psychology; B.A. in Foreign Languages--Spanish with emphasis in Chicano Studies, New Mexico State University; M.S., Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona; Ph.D., Borderlands History, University of Texas at El Paso (expected completion: Fall 2026)

Dissertation:
Sobrevivencia Transnacional: Women’s Voices in Transnational Community Against Militarization and Policing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1965-2015 

Advisor:
Larisa Veloz, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso

Research Topics:
Strategies of sobrevivencia for women living in the borderlands; practices of community solidarity

Mentor:
Michelle Tellez, Ph.D., University of Arizona

Honors:
Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship, National Museum of the American Latino, 2023

Frances G. Harper History Dissertation Award, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2023  

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

CGS Humanities Coalition Grant Writing Project Inaugural Fellow, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2021

Social Justice Fellow Inaugural Cohort. The Memorial Foundation, Washington D.C., 2021

UTEP Doctoral Excellence Fellowship. Graduate School, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2020

Benjamin A. Gilman Scholar International Scholarship. U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 2015

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate

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Education:
B.A., English Literature, Cum Laude, California State University, Northridge; M.A., English, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., English, University of California, Irvine (expected completion: 2025)

Dissertation:
Brujxs, Freaks, and Queers: Reimagining Indigenous Latinidad Through the Latin@ Weird

Advisor:
Jonathan Alexander, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Research Topics:
Contemporary Latinx Literature and Indigenous Latinidad

Mentor:
Cordelia Barrera, Ph.D., Texas Tech University

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

HSI Pathways/Mellon Fellow

Sally Casanova Scholar

CSU Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow 

Current Position: 
Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Associate, UCI Composition 

Education:
B.A., Art History, University of Nevada, Reno; M.A., Art History, The Ohio State University; Ph.D., Art History, University of New Mexico (expected graduation: Spring 2027)

Dissertation:
Visualities of Belonging: Creating Terruño in Contemporary U.S. Central American Art (1995-Now)

Advisor:
Kency Cornejo, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Research Topics:
Contemporary art of the U.S. Central American Diaspora

Mentor: Jennifer Gonzalez, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Smithsonian Latino Museum Studies Fellowship, National Museum of the American Latino, 2023

Archives of American Art Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, 2023-2024

Terra Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2024-2025

Current Position: 
Doctoral Candidate

Education:
B.A., History, University of California, Merced; M.A., History, California State University, Stanislaus; Ph.D., Borderlands History, University of Texas at El Paso (expected completion: May 2026)

Dissertation:
Chicanas and Mexicanas in the El Paso Garment Industry, 1919-2002

Advisor:
Ernesto Chavez, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso

Research Topics:
Labor and gender along the U.S.-Mexico Borderland 

Mentor:
Christina Villarreal, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Graduate Student Prize, Western Historical Association, 2024

Dodson Research Grant, Graduate School, The University of Texas at El Paso 

Frances G. Harper History Dissertation Research Award, Department of History, The University of Texas at El Paso

Current Position: 
Archivist and Oral Historian at La Mujer Obrera 

Oral Historian, “ClimateLore Project,” La Semilla Food Center, Southwest Folklife Alliance, and Tohono O’odham Young Voices Podcast (TOYVP)

Education:
B.A., History, Bowling Green State University; M.A., History, Texas Tech University; Ph.D., History, Texas Tech University (expected completion, Spring 2026)

Dissertation:
Beyond The Lone Ranger: Historical Memory and Media Representations of the Texas Rangers in Relation to Anti-Mexican Violence

Advisor:
Miguel Levario, Ph.D., Texas Tech University

Research Topics:
Historical Memory, Violence

Mentor:
Richard Flores, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate

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Education:
B.A., Psychology with minor in Latin American Studies, San Jose State University; M.A., Anthropology, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona (expected completion: May 2025)

Dissertation:
Intergenerational Displacement in Aguililla-Redwood City: Migration from Michoacán and Diaspora in Northern California

Advisor:
Michelle Téllez, Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research Topics:
Migration, diaspora, and displacement

Mentor:
Xóchitl Bada, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023
Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship

Current Position:
Doctoral Candidate

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Education:
B.Th., Theology, The King’s University; M.Div., Religion/Religious Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary; M.A., American History, University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., City/Urban Community and Regional Planning, University of Texas at Arlington, 2023

Dissertation:
Neoliberal Philanthropic Community Development: Do Comprehensive Community Initiatives Improve Neighborhoods?

Advisor:
María Martínez-Cosio, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington

Research Topics:
Neo-Marxist theory; philanthropic community development; informal housing; community land trusts and housing cooperatives; craft breweries

Mentor:
Nik Theodore, Ph.D. University of Illinois Chicago

Honors:
ACSP Governing Board Student Representative (2023-2025)

Student Recognition Award, Community Development Society (2023)

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current position:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Homelessness Hub, University of California, San Diego

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Education:
B.A., Spanish Literature, International Relations, Asian Studies, Florida International University; M.A., Asian Studies, M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Florida International University; Ph.D., Global and Sociocultural Studies (expected graduation: Fall 2025)

Dissertation:
Asian Cubans Voices, Migration, and Integration to the United States

Advisors:
Guillermo Grenier, Ph.D., and Jorge Duany, Ph.D., Florida International University

Research Topics:
Migration of Cubans to the United States, Asian Cuban identity, ethnography of Chinese Cubans and Japanese Cubans in Miami

Mentor:
Michael Bustamante, Ph.D., University of Miami

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current position:Doctoral Candidate

Manager, College of Business, Florida International University

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Education:
B.A., Anthropology and English, University of Illinois Chicago; M.A., English, University of Illinois Chicago; Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of Illinois Chicago (expected completion: May 2026)

Dissertation:
Environmental Migration, Nomos, and the Apocalypse

Advisor:
Ralph Cintron, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago

Research Topics:
Rhetoric, Latinx studies, environmental studies

Mentor:
Nicholas De Genova, Ph.D., University of Houston

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current position:
Fellow Coordinator for Crossing Latinidades cohort (2023-2024, 2024-2025)

Education:
B.A., Psychology with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Psychology, Texas Tech University; Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Texas Tech University.

Professional Interests:
Mental health disparities in Afro-Latinx/e, Black, and Latinx/e communities, mental health and social equity for historically and systemically marginalized communities

Mentor:
Claudia Garcia-Louis, Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio

Honors:
Clinical Internship, Michigan State University, 2023-2024

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current Position:
Post doctoral Trainee in Clinical Psychology, University of Chicago

Education:
B.A., Political Science with a minor in History, California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., National Security Studies, California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Irvine (expected completion: 2025)

Dissertation:
Urban Refusals: Youth Navigating Violence in South Central Los Angeles and Tijuana

Research Topics:
international relations and comparative politics; political violence, peace and security

Mentor:
Noelle Brigden, Ph.D., Marquette University

Honors:
Ford Foundation Pre-dissertation Fellowship

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

CSU Sally Casanova Pre-doctoral Scholar, 2018-2019

Current Position: 
Doctoral Candidate

Education: B.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; M.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Ph.D., History, University of Illinois Chicago (expected graduation: May 2026)

Dissertation:
Migrants and Pickles: How Seasonal Farmworkers Shaped the Upper Midwest, 1964-1994

Advisor:
Adam Goodman, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago

Research Topics:
Migrant Farmworkers, Bracero and Post-Bracero Programs, U.S. Midwest

Mentor:
Julie Weise, Ph.D., University of Oregon

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current position:
Doctoral Candidate

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Education:
B.A., Hispanic Philology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; M.A., Hispanic Linguistics, University of Arizona; Ph.D., Second Language Acquisition & Teaching (expected completion: Spring 2025)

Dissertation:
Transnational Voices: Spanish Heritage Students’ Digital Multimodal Narratives of the US-Mexico Borderlands

Advisor: 
Beatrice Dupuy, Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research Topics: 
Multimodality and digital multiliteracies in language learning; Heritage Language Pedagogy; Identity representation

Mentor:
Sara Beaudrie, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Honors:
Hispanic Serving Institution Fellow, University of Arizona, 2023

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Mellon-Fronteridades Graduate Fellowship, Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry, University of Arizona, 2021

Nominee, University of Arizona Five Star Faculty Award, 2021

Second Language Acquisition & Teaching and Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Merit Award, 2019

Nominee, University of Arizona Graduate and Professional Student Council Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching Award, 2019

Grants:
iLGBTS Research Grant, Institute for LGBTQ+ Studies, University of Arizona, 2023

Graduate and Professional Student Council Research & Project Grant, University of Arizona, 2020

PandemiDiarios Microgrant: Stories of Resilience, Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry, University of Arizona, 2020

Current Position:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Languages & Linguistics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.

Education:
B.A., Chicana/o Studies and American Indian Studies; M.A., American Studies, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., Chicana/o Studies, University of New Mexico (expected completion: Fall 2025)

Dissertation:
Queremos Muchos Mundos: Transnational Organizing, Leftist Radical Thinking, and Chicanx Political Imaginations for Horizons of Futures

Advisor:
Irene Vasquez, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

Research Topics:
Chicanx Political Imaginaries, Leftist Organizing, Transnational Politics

Mentor:
Alan E. Gomez, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Honors:
UNM Center for Regional Studies Fellow

Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow, 2023-2024

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current position:
Doctoral Candidate

Education:
B.A., Anthropology, Southwestern University; M.A., Public History, St Mary's University; Ph.D., History with focus on Public History, University of Houston (expected completion: May 2025)

Dissertation:
Returning to Roots: History of Adobe and Earthen Architecture in San Antonio, Texas 

Advisor:
Raúl A. Ramos, Ph.D., University of Houston

Research Topics:
Borderlands, Urban Studies, Place & Space

Mentor:
Geraldo Cadava, Ph.D., Northwestern University

Honors:
Graduate Researcher, Digital Humanities Core Facility, University of Houston

John Nau III Texas History Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, University of Houston 

Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current position:
Doctoral Candidate

Education:
B.A., Chicano/a Studies and American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A./Ph.D., Chicana & Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dissertation:
The Coloniality of the Wor(l)d: Aesthetics, Heresy, and the Decolonial Spirit of La Xicanada

Advisor:
Chela Sandoval, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Topics:
Aesthetics in the cultural production, labor, and performance of Xicanacimiento

Mentor:Susy J. Zepeda, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Honors:
Crossing Latinidades Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2022-2023

Current position:
Doctoral Candidate