Thanks to the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship I was able to overcome the financial difficulties of staying in New York City during this Summer. My original plan was to do research at the Colegio de Mexico’s and UNAM’s feminist literary archives in Mexico City for two months. Nevertheless, because of the Covid-19 crisis it was…

In the spring of 2020, I received a CLACLS fellowship to do research in Guatemala. In the summer of 2020, I was going to participate in a Maya K’iche’ language program. While in Iximulew, my plan was to conduct oral history interviews about migration and the asylum process with several Maya K’iche’ co-researchers. However, due…

My plans have been seriously affected both by COVID-19 and by delays in documents being processed. As a result, my research trip to Spain will take place in October instead of during the past summer. My initial project was to facilitate and record a series of encounters/interviews between philosophers and filmmakers with the goal of…

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…