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) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in order to view the papers of an art historian and an artist whose records I believe will be integral to my project. COVID-19 prevented me from leaving New York for research purposes, but I was able to spend the summer completing my dissertation proposal, which was recently approved by my program. Refining my topic reaffirmed my commitment to eventually visiting the CEMA archives when it is safe to do so; meanwhile, I have refocused my plans for the immediate future to visit non-institutional personal archives and conduct artist interviews in New Mexico in January provided the situation with the pandemic does not worsen. This will enable me to make progress on several of my chapters in the spring semester. Though the pandemic has forced me to reorder my plans, it has not fundamentally altered the direction of the project in terms of methodology and scope, and I am actively seeking workarounds to counter the impacts that continued closures in libraries and archives have had on my research.