Photo Credit: Caleb Duarte, “Floating Ladder”
Selected Honors, Awards, and Grants
- Co-Principal Investigator (with Professors Catherine Ramirez and Jonathan X. Inda) “Bioprecarity: Latinx Migrants, Captivity, and Resistance,” Crossing Latinidades Collaborative, Cross-Institutional, and Comparative Research Working Groups and Latino Humanities Studies Grant, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. (2022-2024)
- The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2021) for Visualizing Displacement in the Americas: The Aesthetics of Mobility and Immobilization
- The College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism (2019) for The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility.
- Member of Faculty Research Team awarded National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant for “Culturally Mapping Albuquerque” a two-year project examining migration, immigration, and urbanization in Albuquerque. (2018-2020) Project Directors: Professors Levi Romero and Irene Vásquez.
- Career Advancement Semester (CAS) Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico, (Fall 2016).
- Co-Principal Investigator (with Professors Irene Vásquez and Bárbara O. Reyes), College of Arts and Sciences Research Proposal Award for the Transnational Americas Research Cluster’s Transnational Art and Film Series. (2015-2016)
- Principal Investigator, American Studies Association’s Community Partnership Grant with the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM. (2016)
- Co- Principal Investigator (with Professor Irene Vásquez), “Everyday Practices of Popular Power: Art, Media, and Immigration” Symposium. University of New Mexico (November 9, 2012). Funded by El Centro de la Raza, Division of Student Affairs and Division of Equity and Inclusion, UNM.
- Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico (2008).
- Faculty Recognition Award, Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, University of New Mexico (2007).
- Principal Investigator, American Studies Association’s Community Partnership Grant with the Office of the State Historian of New Mexico (2005, 2006).
Media
“Marking Boundaries: Migrants, Minutemen and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Decolonizing Nature symposium, University of New Mexico (April 20-23, 2017).
