Position Title
Graduate Student in Spanish
PhD Candidate
Faculty Advisor: Robert M. Irwin
Position Title
Graduate Student in Spanish
PhD Candidate
Faculty Advisor: Robert M. Irwin
422 Sproul Hall
Bio
PROFILE
EDUCATION AND DEGREE(S)
- B.A. in Languages and Literature, Bard College
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SPA 001, 002, 003
RESEARCH INTEREST(S)
- Decolonization through land relationality, Indigenous Feminist methodologies, Alternative futurities, borderless futures, resistances to neoextractivism and land dispossession in Central America, Central American migration
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Trauma in the Courtroom: Maya Ixil Testimonies in the Ríos Montt Trial as Witnessed in ‘Dictator in the Dock’” Brújula, Contemporary Performance in Latin America, vol. 12, 2018
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Hemispheric Institute of the Americas Summer Field Research Award, 2019
- Humanizing Deportation Summer Grant, 2018, 2019
- UC Davis Spanish Department Summer Teaching Award, 2018
- The Cristina R. Tarsell Bard College Service Award, 2015, Humanitarian Service and Bridge Building
- Thomas Thompson Trust Scholarship, 2013-2015, Community Engagement
- Mary and Richard Sugatt Scholarship, 2013, Academics and Leadership