Thanks to the CLACLS funding I received I was able to travel to Honduras over the summer. I plan to conduct my research in the Maya site of Copan, in the western part of the country.Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 I was not able to conduct any fieldwork over the summer. Instead, I have used this…

I received the CLACLS Summer Research Travel Fellowship to do preliminary field research in a historic region of migration in Zacatecas, Mexico. While Mexican state officials are reporting a bettering situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions, archives, and libraries remain closed, and travel is highly discouraged. I had to postpone my travel plans to…

 I applied for the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship to support dissertation research in archives located outside of my main research sites in New Mexico and Texas, where the four artists I write about are/were active. Accordingly, my plan was to travel to Santa Barbara, California to visit the Center for Ethnic and Multicultural Studies (CEMA)…

Despite the particular circumstances of this summer, the CLACLS fellowship allowed me to seriously advance in the process of writing my thesis. Due to the unfortunate situation of the pandemic worldwide, travel restrictions, and the uncertain circumstances we are all experiencing, it was necessary to reimagine my research plans and to complete my project without…

I am a PhD student of Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures, currently investigating the discursive entanglements between the subjectivation of women as witches, nature and capitalism in the inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions in Mexico during the 16th and 17th centuries. The CLACLS 2020 Summer Travel Fellowship allowed me to travel to Spain and undertake four…