A CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship will allow me to spend two weeks in Mexico City conducting research for my dissertation, “Stills of Passage: Photography and Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1978-1992.” Focused on a period when migration to the U.S. from Mexico increased dramatically, the period following 1978 was also a time when documentary photography was radically re-thought with regards to its political and social effects. My project includes photographers who were members of the Consejo Mexicano Fotografia (CMF), a photography collective established in 1978, and my time in Mexico City will be spent interviewing these photographers, and conducting primary document research in the archives of the Centro de la Imagen and theUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico’s (UNAM) Centro de Documentacion del Museo Universitario de Art Contemporaneo.