2023-24 Mellon Fellows

  • Education:
    B.A. with honors, Latina/o Studies with minor in LGBTQ+ Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; M.A., American Studies, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Diasporic Archives: Alternative Forms of Justice Within a Paper Trail 

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

    Research Topic:
    Central American archives and their weight within and outside of using examples found within grassroots activism, visual art, and performance

    Mentor:
    Natalie Lira, Ph.D., University of Urbana-Champaign

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Student

  • Education:
    B.A., Sociology and Women, Gender Studies, University of California, Davis; M.A., American Studies, University of New Mexico; Ph.D., American Studies, University of New Mexico (expected completion: June 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Critical Indigenous Studies and Afro-Latina/o Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches

    Advisor:
    Michael Trujillo, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

    Research Topics:
    Afro descendant racial formations in the U.S. Southwest, México, and Cuba.

    Mentor:
    Kyle Mays, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Charles Becknell Jr. Fellowship, Center for Regional Studies, UNM, 2018-19

    Harold Bailey Fellowship, Center for Regional Studies, UNM, 2016-17

    Latin American & Iberian Institute Field Research Grant, UNM Summer Travel to Cuba, 2016

    National Endowment for the Humanities, UNM, 2016-2017

    New Mexico Higher Education Department Scholarship Program, UNM, 2015-19

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.S., Santa Clara University; M.A. - University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz (expected completion: June 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Migration Justice: Borders, Enforcement, and Central American Mobility

    Advisor:
    Cecilia M. Rivas, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

    Research Topics:
    Central America, Migration, Border Enforcement, Immigration Philosophy

    Mentor:
    Grant Silva, Ph.D., Marquette University

    Honors:
    Graduate Student Research Grant, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz, 2023, 2024

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, Working Group on Latinx Past: Archive, Memory, and Speculation, August 2023 - June 2024

    Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute and Mentorship Program, July 2023

    Louise & Sarah Sloss Graduate Fellowship, July 2022.

    Regent’s Fellowship, September-December 2021

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., History, Texas A&M University; Ed.M., Prevention Science and Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education; M.A., History, University of Texas at Arlington; Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Arlington (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Unity Beyond Borders: U.S. Women’s Internationalism and Transnational Organizing in the Early Twentieth Century

    Advisor:
    Delaina Price, Ph.D., University of Texas, Arlington

    Research Topic:
    Early twentieth century women’s internationalism

    Mentor:
    Luz Maria Gordillo, Ph.D., Washington State University

    Research:
    Member, Mapping Everyday Mexicana/Chicana Political Organizing in Texas and Arizona Borderlands Working Group, 2023-2024

    Honors:
    Bobbitt Family Endowment, University of Texas at Arlington, dissertation travel and research grant, 2024

    Benedict and Trudy Termini Graduate Fellowship Travel Endowment, dissertation travel and research grant, 2024

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Benedict and Trudy Termini Graduate Fellowship Travel Endowment, dissertation travel and research grant, University of Texas at Arlington, 2023

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, cum laude, Minor in Latin American & Latina/o Studies; M.S., Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University and Certificate of Advanced Studies in Women and Gender Studies; Ph.D., Urban Education, The CUNY Graduate Center (expected graduation: June 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Black Dominicanas Online: Building Community Online and In Real Life (IRL)

    Advisor:
    Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

    Research Topics:
    Black Dominican women, sociaL media and online communities, Dominicanidad, and Digital Media

    Mentor:
    Alexander Gil, Yale University

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

  • Education:
    B.A., Spanish, California State University, Long Beach; M.A., Spanish, California State University, Long Beach with a graduate certificate in Latin American Studies; Ph.D., Spanish with concentration on Latinx/ Latin American Literature with a graduate certificate in Women's Studies (expected completion: May 2025)

    Dissertation:
    Fuera máscaras: Drag queens, nationalist machismo, and trauma in LGBTQ+ cultural productions of Greater México, 1980-2023

    Advisor:
    Guillermo de los Reyes, Ph.D., University of Houston

    Research Topics:
    Mexican/Chicanx drag queens, Mexican machismo, and LGBTQ narratives 

    Mentor:
    Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Ph.D., University of Michigan

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    UH Center for Mexican American and Latino/a Studies Fellowship, 2024-2025

    UH Friends of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Elizabeth Chenoweth Fellowship, 2024-2025

    UH Hispanic Alumni Association Scholarship, 2024

    NYU Arts and Science Faculty First Look, 2024-2025

    Point Foundation LGBTQ BIPOC Scholarship, 2024-2025

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., Anthropology, Florida International University; M.A., Anthropology, University of Miami; Ph.D., Anthropology, Florida International University (expected completion: Spring 2026)

    Dissertation:
    A Woman and an Immigrant: A Health Perspective
    Advisor:

    Sheilla Rodriguez-Madera, Florida International University

    Research Topics:
    Immigrant health, resistance strategies, intersectionality & precarity

    Mentor:
    William Lopez, Ph.D., University of Michigan

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Student

  • Education:
    B.A., English and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Speech-Language Pathology with Bilingual Certificate, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Education, University of California, Irvine (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Multilingual, Multimodal, and Multiliterate Languaging Practices Across Contexts

    Advisor:
    Elizabeth Peña, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

    Research Topics:
    Education, Language.

    Mentor:
    Betty Yu, Ph.D., San Francisco State University

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

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  • Education:
    B.A., Women’s and Gender Studies summa cum laude, Northeastern Illinois University ; B.S., Social Work summa cum laude; M.S.W., Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; M.A., Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago; Ph.D., Sociology and concentration on Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago (expected completion: May 2025)

    Dissertation:
    Navigating the Academy: Challenges and Strategies among Latina Graduate Students

    Advisor:
    Julie Dowling, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago

    Research Topics:
    Sociology of Latinas, Higher Education

    Mentor:
    Magdalena Barrera, Ph.D., San Jose State University

    Honors:
    Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI), 2024

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois (DFI), 2020-2022

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., Chicano and Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine; M.A., Chicana and Chicano Studies, California State University Northridge; Ph.D., Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz (expected completion: June 2026)

    Dissertation:
    A Movement of Memories: Chicana Organizing and Identity Formations in the U.S. Southwest

    Advisor:
    Jessica Taft, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

    Research Topics:
    Chicana identity

    Mentor:
    Rocio Garcia, Ph.D., Arizona State University

    Honors:
    LACCD Project Match Mentee (Fall 24)

    Fellowship, Graduate Pedagogy Development (Winter - Spring 24)

    Chicanx Studies Research Cluster Grant, Dolores Huerta Research Center (Fall 23

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

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  • Education:
    B.A., Science, Technology, and Society; Vassar College; M.F.A. Creative Writing, Fiction, University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Creative Writing, Texas Tech University (expected completion: May 2025)

    Dissertation:
    Fields of Blood: A Novel and Critical Introduction

    Advisor:
    Katie Cortese, Ph.D., Texas Tech University

    Research Topics:
    Race creation in Southwest U.S., especially as it pertains to Latines and Native Americans; Indigenous identity within Latinidad; Problematizing mestizaje; Literary representations of Latines/Native Americans in context with the historical views of these communities; andMinority horror and the racialized "Other."

    Mentor:
    María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Ph.D., New York University

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

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  • Education:
    B.A., Lengua y Literatura Hispánicas, Universidad Autónoma de Guanajuato, Mexico; Diplomado, Medicina del Adolescente, El Colegio de México (COLMEX); Diplomado, Cultural Juveniles, Universidad Autónoma de México--Iztapalapa; M.A., Literatura Hispánica, El Colegio de México (COLMEX), Mexico; M.A., Latin American and Border Studies, University of Texas at El Paso; Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Sobre el cadáver de una mujer estoy creciendo. Feminicidio fronterizo de 1880 a 1994

    Advisor:
    Yolanda Leyva, Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso

    Research Topics:
    Borderlands, Feminicide

    Mentor:
    Bernadine Hernández, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

    Honors:
    Beca de Escritores Jóvenes, Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Jalisco, Mexico

    Beca para investigación: Programa de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de las Mujeres, COLMEX

    Hewlett Packard Fellowship: Liderazgo en Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos. Nairobi, Kenya. 

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno; M.A., History, University of Nevada, Reno; Ph.D., History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (expected completion: Spring 2027) 

    Dissertation:
    Sierra de Plata: Latin American Mining Communities in the U.S. West, 1860-1910

    Advisors:
    Susan Johnson, Ph.D. and María Raquel Casas, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    Research Topics:
    Latinx History of the United States, Mining History

    Mentor:
    Samuel Truitt, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Mentor:
    Deborah Vargas, Yale University

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

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  • Education:
    B.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles; M.S.W., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine (expected completion: June 2027)

    Dissertation:
    Arrested, Deported, and Returning: Life in the U.S. After Deportation

    Advisor:
    Kristin Turney, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

    Research Topics:
    Immigration, deportation, wellbeing, incarceration, reentry, and surveillance

    Mentor:
    Vilma Ortiz, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

    Honors:
    UC Alianza Mexico Research Fellowship, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

    California Community College Internship Program

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2022

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Student

  • Education:
    B.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; M.Ed., Education, University of California, Los Angeles; Curatorial Practice in the Public Sphere, University of Southern California; Ph.D., Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY (expected completion: May 2027)

    Dissertation:
    N/A

    Advisor:
    Anna Indych-Lopez, Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY

    Research Topic:
    Afro-Latinx racial formation and identity

    Mentor:
    Adriana Zavala, Ph.D., Tufts University

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Student

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  • Education:
    B.S., Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago; M.A., Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago; Ph.D., Sociology, University of Illinois Chicago (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Changing the Path: Latino/a Youth in Law Enforcement Intervention Programs

    Advisor:
    Julie Dowling, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago

    Research Topics:
    Critical youth studies and Latino/a law enforcement officers

    Mentor:
    Amada Armenta, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., English Creative Writing, University of Houston-Downtown; M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Houston-Downtown; Ph.D., Literature, University of North Texas (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Revolutionary Pedagogy: Teaching Chingona/x Aesthetics in Mexican American Literature

    Advisor:
    Priscilla Ybarra, Ph.D., University of North Texas

    Research Topics:
    Activism and community engagement, feminist perspectives in Mexican American literature and social issues.

    Mentor:
    María Eugenia Cotera, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

    Honors:

    Owens Award from Western Literature Association, 2023

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., History, Nevada State University; M.A., History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Ph.D., History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (expected completion Fall 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Charros vs. Cowboys: Modern “American” Rodeo and the Absence of the Charro Tradition

    Advisors:
    Maria Raquel Casas, Ph.D., and Susan Lee Johnson, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    Research Topics:
    Historical interpretation of Mexican and Mexican American identity through vaquero culture in the U.S.

    Mentor:
    Romeo Guzman, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

    Honors:

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyer Award, 2023 and 2024

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Student

  • Education:
    B.A., Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso; M.A., Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso; Ph.D., History, University of Texas at El Paso (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    El Cuadrilátero en la Frontera: A History of Lucha Libre in El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 1900-2015.

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

    Research Topics:
    Sports in the borderlands, lucha libre in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez region, Sport and community, luchadoras and exóticos in a traditionally male-dominated environment

    Mentor:
    Jose M. Alamillo, Ph.D., California State University, Channel Islands

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Texas Society Colonial Dames XVII Century Scholarship 2022-2023

    June M. Kruszewski Memorial Endowed Scholarship 2017-2018

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Student

  • Education:
    B.A., Social Communication, Bicentenary University of Aragua, Venezuela; M.A., Communications, University of Central Florida; Ph.D., Strategic Communication-Crisis and Risk Communication, University of Central Florida, Spring 2024.

    Dissertation:
    Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Health Communication and Female Fieldworkers in Central Florida

    Advisor:
    Deanna Sellnow, Ph.D., University of Central Florida

    Research Topics:
    Health access, female agricultural workers, mental health, communication

    Mentor:
    Albert Gonzalez, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Outstanding Graduate Research Award, Nicholson School of Communication and Media, UCF, 2023

    Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Nicholson School of Communication and Media, UCF 2019

    Conference Research Poster, First place, International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference, 2019

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  • Education:
    B.F.A., Painting and Drawing, University of Arizona; M.A., Art and Visual Culture Education, University of Arizona; Ph.D., Mexican American Studies, Minor AVCE, University of Arizona (expected completion: Fall 2025)

    Dissertation:
    Conocimiento, Xicanxfuturism and the Resistance to Assimilation through Xicanx Murals in Tucson, AZ 

    Advisor:
    Damian Baca, Ph.D., University of Arizona

    Research Topics:
    Xicanx murals, Chicana theory, history of El Rio Community Center

    Mentor:
    Dylan AT Miner, Ph.D., Michigan State University

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    SBS Grad College Fellowship, 2022-2023

    Mexican American Std Tuition Scholarship

    2021-2022- SBS Grad College Fellowship

    2020-2021- SBS Grad College Fellowship

    Fine Arts General Scholarship

    Mexican Am/Raza Stipend

    HEERF III Grant

    Sevigny, Maurice J Scholarship

    SBS Grad College Fellowship

    Grad Access Fellowship

    Swalin, H Faculty Women's Scholarship

    University School of Art Tuition Scholarship

    University of Arizona Memorial Scholarship

    Misto-Ertz Scholarship for Art and Art Education

    2018-2019- University School of Art Grant

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  • Education:
    B.A., English Literature with Creative Writing Concentration, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., English Literature, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside (expected completion: June 2025)

    Dissertation:
    Haciendo Bulla: Chicana Pinta Poetics and Counterhegemonic 

    Advisor:
    Richard T. Rodriguez, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

    Research Topics:
    Chicana pinta (prison) poetry in the languages and literature of incarceration

    Mentor:
    Michael Roy Hames Garcia, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education: B.A., Native American Studies, Minors: Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., Chicana/o Studies, UC Santa Barbara (expected completion: Spring 2028)

    Dissertation:
    Pedagogies of Re-Membering: Detribalization, Resurgence, and Xicanx Indígena Art Praxis of Going Home

    Advisor:
    Micaela Díaz-Sánchez, Ph.D. and Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

    Research Topics:
    Identity, indigeneity, and memory; positionality of detribalized peoples; Indigenous identity

    Mentor:
    Susy Zepeda, University of California, Davis

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

  • Education:
    B.A., Communication Studies,Texas A&M--Corpus Christi; M.A., Philosophy, Houston Christian University; Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Texas (expected completion: May 2025)

    Dissertation:
    The Racialization of Mexicans in the U.S.: A Philosophical and Environmental Analysis of Farmworker Racial Extraction

    Advisors:
    Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez, Ph.D., University of Oregon and Kim De Wolff, Ph.D., University of North Texas

    Research Topics:
    Critical Philosophy of Race, Environmental Justice, and Decolonial Thought

    Mentor:
    Laura E. Gomez, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

    Honors:
    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

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  • Education:
    B.A., Spanish and Studio Art, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN; B.S., Spanish Education and TESL Education, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN; M.A., Spanish, Texas Tech University; Ph.D., Texas Tech University (Anticipated: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Bridging Mexican and Chicanx literature, with an emphasis on the roles and influences of women during the Mexican Revolution and the Chicanx Movement

    Advisor:
    Britta Anderson, Ph.D., Texas Tech University

    Research Topics:
    Women shaping historical events and literary narratives

    Honors:
    Raiders Rojos Alumni Association: Frances Hernandez Memorial Scholarship

    Helen DeVitt Jones Fellowship

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

  •  Education:
    B.A., English and Film Studies, Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Teaching Secondary Education from University of North Texas; Ph.D., English, University of Texas at Arlington (expected completion: Spring 2025)

    Dissertation:
    Smut: The Sexy Shame of the New Adult Romance Genre

    Advisor:
    Penelope Ingram, Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington

    Research Topics:
    New Adult romance novels, feminism, queer studies, sexuality

    Mentor:
    Frederick Luis Aldama, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

    Honors:
    Maverick Doctoral Grant, University of Texas Arlington, 2021, 2024
    Maverick Graduate Grant, 2021, 2023, 2024

    Texas Public Educational Grant, University of Texas Arlington, 2024

    O’Neill Academic Award, 2023

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Emory D. Estes Endowed Scholarship, University of Texas Arlington, 2022, 2023

    Carpenter Grant, University of Texas at Arlington, 2023
    Writing Group Grant, 2023

    Texas Public Educational Grant, University of North Texas, 2021

    Current Position:
    Doctoral Candidate

  • Education:
    B.A., History, University of New Haven; M.A. with distinction, Global, International, and Comparative History, Georgetown University; Ph.D., Atlantic History, Florida International University (expected completion: May 2026)

    Dissertation:
    Art for Liberation: Elizabeth Catlett the Black Left Feminist, 1915-2012

    Advisor:
    Okezi T. Otovo, Ph.D., Florida International University

    Research Topics:
    Black women's history of the Americas, Black women's intellectualism of the Americas, Black Left Feminism, Women in the Arts

    Mentor:
    Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Ph.D., University of Maryland

    Honors:
    José Antonio Echeverría Scholarship, 2024-2025

    Crossing Latinidades Mellon Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2023-2024

    Engaged & Public Humanities Fellowship & Graduate Certificate, Georgetown University, 2019

2022-23 Mellon Fellows

  • 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:
    BrujxsFreaks, 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