Biography

I’m Breanna Escamilla (she/her), and I am a Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Graduate Minors in Latina/Latino Studies and Queer Studies. As an interdisciplinary scholar, my research centers around Latina feminist practices and politics, language and identity, and critical internet studies.

In addition to my scholarly work, I care deeply about how teaching and mentoring shapes the student experience and prepares them to lead fulfilling careers and lives. I am interested and prepared to teach classes in Anthropology, Latina/x Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Digital Media Studies, and qualitative methods like ethnographic and feminist methods.

Before graduate school, I earned my B.A from Michigan State University in 2018 with undergraduate minors in African American and African Studies and Chicanx/Latinx Studies.