“The most valuable element of my experience in Peru was stumbling upon a new methodology that has both streamlined and redirected my dissertation research. My dissertation concerns avian imagery in the art of an ancient Peruvian culture (Paracas, 900-200 BCE). My experience with the landscape and birdlife of Paracas, in person, raised questions about the…

“The National Archives of Curaçao, housed in a colorful and exquisitely ornamented nineteenth-century villa in colonial Willemstad, protect the historical legacy of the Netherlands Antilles.  Thanks to a CLACLS summer travel fellowship, I spent ten days here exploring the major debates and conflicts that shaped the first decades after decolonization.  Following a different path to…

“I was a recipient of the CLACLS summer travel fellowship, 2013 to conduct research towards my dissertation on the Nuyorican artist, Adál Maldonado, (tentative working title–Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, El Sainete, and Spanglish). Adál (born Adál Alberto Maldonado in Utuado, Puerto Rico, 1948) is a contemporary multimedia artist whose work resists easy…