Research

My work is situated at the intersections of Chicana/o/x studies, critical food studies, New Mexico regional history, and social movements in the 20th and 21st centuries. My research is interdisciplinary, using archives, oral histories, and visual and cultural analysis to explore the individual and collective meanings racialized communities express through food.

My forthcoming manuscript will explore these topics in more detail, and is tentatively titled: Homegrown Politics: Revolutionary Food Imaginaries, Environmental Justice, and the Legacies of the Chicana/o/x Movement.

My work has been recognized by UNM’s Community Engagement Center, the New Mexico History Scholars program, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Western History Association, the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association, the Voces Latino Oral History Project, USC’s Joint Educational Program, and the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.