Research

My research has been recognized by fellowships from the Illinois Department of Anthropology, Illinois Graduate College, and UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, as well as awards from the Zeta National Educational Foundation Zora Neale Hurston Award, and the Lambda Theta Alpha Foundation.

Situated at the nexus of Latina feminist studies, digital media studies, and linguistic and cultural anthropology, my dissertation research project is a digital ethnography about the feminist digital practices and politics of LGBTQ+ (queer) Latina/x social media users in the United States. Through interviews and digital ethnographic fieldwork, I situate queer Latinas as agentive subjects navigating the socio-historical assemblage of racialization, gender, and sexuality in the overlapping and enduring colonialities of Spanish and U.S empire. With particular attention to language, I examine the Latina feminist possibilities of the technological practices of writing, documentation, and aesthetics.