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…

As part of a dissertation project on Black, Puerto Rican, and women’s cultural studies and liberation movements at the City College of New York and New York City during the 1960-70s, I conducted research on June 10-20, 2017, in the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Central Archives. I evaluated how UPR-RP students created anti-colonial…

Kelsey Chatlosh is a cultural anthropology PhD student and Digital Fellow at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her future dissertation research in northern Chile, supported by a Fulbright IIE research grant, will investigate Afro-Chilean women activists’ articulations of belonging to the African diaspora and the Chilean nation as a…

My doctoral research focuses on etiquette and politeness manuals that circulated in Mexico during the 19th- and early-20th centuries, and examines how representations of language and language use are aligned with broader social and economic processes. The 2018 CLACLS Travel Fellowship will allow me to travel to Mexico City to continue gathering and analysing these…