My dissertation, The Making of a Queer Caribbean Consciousness: The Influence of LGBTQ Activism on Anglophone Caribbean Literature (1974-2014), analyzes the relationship between Anglo-Caribbean writings and the legacies of the region’s LGBTQ activism. With a focus on Guyana and Jamaica, I examine grassroots activist histories and the literary and lyrical cultural productions that have influenced…

The purpose of this dissertation research is to study, analyze, compare, and document the current ethnobotanical (Carbono 1995) pedagogy and practices of Indigenous (Nasa) and Afro-indigenous peoples in Cauca on the Colombian Pacific Coast. The focus of this research is then on those practices and I study them using an intersectional (race-class-gender-sexuality) epistemology and analysis.…

‘Thanks to the award from CLACLS, I’ll be able to travel to Colombia in June 2018 to complete my field research. I am studying the return of cultural heritage objects to their “country of origin”, and more specifically the reasons why Latin American countries such as Mexico, Peru and Colombia engage in legal and ethical…

The Aleph Villero is a proyect based on archival and digital humanities around the literature produced from the Argentinean Villas. To defy preconceived notions of class, culture and literacy, we must make visible many authors eroded from literary historiography. For this we must engage in archival research on material that are presupposed as inexistent. That…

This summer, I will be traveling to the Smithsonian Tropical Institute in Panama City, Panama to analyze my faunal collection from Guatemala. The proposed study will investigate social differentiation at Nixtun-Ch’ich’ through the examination of animal bones from household and ceremonial buildings. I seek to analyze a collection of excavated bones from various structures throughout…