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Education
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PhD Anthropology, In Progress
Latina/Latino Studies Graduate Minor, Department of Latina/o Studies
Queer Studies Graduate Minor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Michigan State University, Bachelor of Arts Anthropology, May 2018
African American and African Studies Minor
Chicano/Latino Studies Minor
Additional Training & Certificates
In Progress. Certificate in Foundations of Teaching. Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2024. Master Course in Online Teaching Certificate. Center for Innovation, Teaching and Learning. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2023. Mentoring Certificate. Graduate College. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2023. Disability Ally Program Training. Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES).
2022. Writing Across the Curriculum Seminar. The Center for Writing Studies.
Fellowships and Awards
Fellowships
2024. Charles and Janet Keller Fellowship. Department of Anthropology. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2023 – 2024. Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Summer Dissertation Fellowship. University of California, Los Angeles.
2023 – 2018. Graduate College Fellowship. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2021. National Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Workshop Fellowship. Humanities Research Institute. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Awards
2024. Emerging Scholar. Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
2023. Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship Award. Zeta National Educational Foundation.
2022. List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for ANTH 270: Language and Culture. Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2022. Scholarship Award. Lambda Theta Alpha Foundation.
2022. Humanities Without Walls Summer Bridge Experience. Humanities Research Institute, Graduate College of Illinois, and We CU. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2021. Summer Research Award. Department of Anthropology. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2018. Maximillian Monroy-Miller Award for Academic Excellence & Community Service. The Chicano/Latino Studies Program. Michigan State University.
Publications
2024. Escamilla, Breanna. On Language, Belonging, and Being a #NoSaboKid. Anthropology News website.
2023. Escamilla, Breanna (Managing Author), Fleischmann, Adam, Gupta, Kristin, Quinn, Hannah, Ross, and Lachlan Summers. Being @culanth: Social Media and Academic Practice Series. Member Voices, Society of Cultural Anthropology.
2020. Escamilla, Breanna, and Robyn Taylor-Neu. Digitally Mediated Relations: An Interview with Molly Hales. Society of Cultural Anthropology.
Presentations
2024. Panelist. SCA Fridays “Being @culanth: Social Media as Academic Practice”. Society of Cultural Anthropology.
2024. Panelist. Educational Journeys: Towards Higher Education. Office of Minority Student Affairs. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. February.
2023. Panelist. The 'X' Factor: #AnthroTwitter, Academic labor, and Anthropological Community in a Time of Technological Transition Roundtable. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. November.
2023. Panelist. Minority Graduate Students in the Humanities Panel. Society of Minority Undergraduate Students in History. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2021 – 2022. Panelist. Interdisciplinary Discussion Project. Humanities Research Institute. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. October – February.
2021. Panelist. Towards Community: Navigating Graduate School. Department of Anthropology. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. September.
2020. Panelist. What is it? Research in the Social Science and Humanities. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Office. Michigan State University. November.
2020. Invited Respondent. A Conversation with Sandra Ruiz on Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance. Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Spring 2020 Faculty Fellows Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March.
2019. Presenter. Survivance, Sustainability, and the Self. National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. April.
2019. Panelist. Queer of Color Imaginations of Pleasure & Practice. American Ethnological Society, Association for Black Anthropologists, and Association of Latina/Latino Anthropologist Joint Spring Meeting. March.
2019. Panelist. Collaborative Worlding: The Materiality, Affect, and Fleshy Processes of Kinship-Formation. La Casa Cultural Latina Mentoring Encouraging Teaching Achieving (META) Program. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. February.
2019. Presenter. The Intimacies of Sharing: (Digital) Storytelling. Latina/Latino Studies Graduate Student Symposium. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. February.
2018. Guest Lecturer. #Immigrants: Transmedia Organizing in the Information Age, LLS 468: Latinas/os & the Law. Department of Latina/Latino Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Teaching
Instructor of Record of ANTH 103: Anthropology in a Changing World at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during Fall 2024, Summer 2024.
Instructor of Record of Race-Making in the Americas: From Columbus to the 1893 World’s Fair at The Newberry Library during Summer 2024.
Teaching Assistant for ANTH 270: Language in Culture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during Spring 2022. Selected for the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students*
Teaching Assistant for ANTH 103: Anthropology in a Changing World at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Fall 2023.
Teaching Assistant for ANTH 101: Introduction to Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during Fall 2022, Fall 2023.
Teaching Assistant for The Diaspora and Border Racial Justice Youth Project in the Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during the 2021 – 2022 academic year.
Professional Service and Experience
Departmental
2023 – Present. Committee Member. Development/Marketing and Communications. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2021 – 2022. Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology Graduate Student Representative. Graduate Anthropology Student Association. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2018 – 2019. Co-organizer. Moving Intimacies: A Sociocultural Graduate Student Symposium. Department of Anthropology. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. September - March.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2020 – Present. Peer-Mentor. Doctoral Research Support Program. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2023 – 2024. Organizer. Educational Journeys: Towards Higher Education. Office of Minority Student Affairs. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2019 – 2023. Undergraduate Mentor. Illinois Promise Program. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2021 – 2022. Co-organizer. Formations: Graduate Student Colloquium. Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. October - March.
Field
2024. Section Reviewer. Association of Queer Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
2018 – Present. Contributing Editor. Social Media Team. Society of Cultural Anthropology.