The Crossing Latinidades Research Working Groups conduct original humanities or humanistic social science U.S cross-regional and cross-institutional comparative research. Working group seeks shared knowledge creation, new ways of thinking to reflect on the current changing configurations of Latinos/as/x in the United States, and new research projects that significantly impact and enhance the growth of the field of Latino Humanities Studies. Each group includes faculty members from at least three different universities and six Crossing Latinidades Mellon Fellows.

Research Working Groups

  • Afro-Chicanx Digital Humanities

  • Bioprecarity: Latinx Migrants, Captivity and Resistance

  • Bridging the Shakespeare-Latinx Divide

  • Climate and Environmental Justice

  • Latinx Sound Cultures: Belonging, Resonance, Amplifications

  • The Latinx Past: Archive, Memory, Speculation

  • Mapping Everyday Mexicana/Chicana Political Organizing in Texas and Arizona Borderlands

  • Race Laws in the U.S. Southwest

  • Situating the Networks of Latinx Art

  • Forging Panethnic Allegiances