Public Humanities Fellows (2022)

We are thrilled to announce the The Latinx Project’s Public Humanities Fellows joining us this summer. The 10 graduate students from NYU & the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium will be collaborating respectively with El Museo del Barrio, El Clemente Soto Velez Center, Pregones/PRTT, Lazos, Mil Mundos, Toppled Monuments Archive, La Mixteca Org, and Museo de Los Sures.

 
 

Erik Alonso

is a current Master’s student in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has received grants from the Mexican Letters Foundation, the National Young Creators Program of Mexico, among others. In 2019, he was writer-in-residence at the Leighton Artists Studios of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, in Canada. He is author of the book Los procesos (FETA, 2014).

Diana Higuera Cortes

is a PhD student in the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILaC) program at the Graduate Center-CUNY. She received her B.A. in Language Teaching from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional in Bogotá and her MA in Spanish and Latin American and Caribbean Studies from St. John’s University. Her current work focuses on Latina Domestic Workers in the Metropolitan Area of New York City as they commodify their language practices in the frame of the Care Economy. She’s interested in Language Ideologies, LatinX Studies, Migration, Spanish as a Heritage Language and critical approaches to language learning and teaching. She is currently an Adjunct Faculty at Lehman College, Hunter College, and College of Staten Island CUNY and a fellow at the CUNY Humanities Alliance.

Antonieta Landa

is a Chilean curator based in New York. She holds a postgraduate degree in art history and theory from Universidad Católica de Chile. Her undergraduate degree is in Fine Arts with a mention in Drama from Universidad Finis Terra. On 2007-12 Landa was part of the team of independents shows in Santiago Chile. Since 2014  she is the director of ALWorks, an international organization with a presence in Shanghai, Santiago, and New York, that brings South American contemporary art abroad. Some of her recent exhibitions include artists as Benjamin Lira, Margarita Dittborn, Felipe Valdivia, Francisca Eluchans, among many others. 

Luise Malmaceda

is a Ph.D. student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. She holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and a M.A. in Aesthetics and Art History from the Universidade de São Paulo. Her research interests include 20th century avant-garde art, music, cinema and poetry, with emphasis on underground and countercultural movements of the 1960s; experimental and conceptual practices in visual arts and their challenges of institutionalization; and Brazilian cultural resistance to the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985).

Monica Ramirez

is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (Columbia University) and is currently researching the creative possibilities of artistic mapping. Since 2019 she has been a member of the collective project “Despatriarcalizar el archivo”, a group of artists, curators, archivists, and researchers who have worked together to make critical interventions on the patriarchal logic of the archive.

 
 

Ramon Resendiz

Born and raised in the south Texas borderlands, Ramon Resendiz is a Chicanx Feminist social and critical theory student, turned documentarian. He attended the University of North Texas, where he double majored in anthropology and philosophy, and began his work in visual anthropology, film studies, and environmental & social justice studies. He received a Master of Communication in Indigenous media from the Native Voices program at the University of Washington. He is the co-director of The Wall / El Muro (2017), a film produced with the collaboration of the Lipan Nde’(Apache) Band of Texas, which foregrounds human rights violations perpetrated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the process of building the U.S. Border Fence/Wall of 2006, as well as their tribal history and legacy of cultural survival.

Tatiana Rojas

is a PHD student at the NYU Spanish and Portuguese Department, she is also a documentary filmmaker and a social activist. Her trajectory combines advocacy and filmmaking related to causes like women reproductive rights and anticolonial struggles in Latin America, with academic research related to the same topics.

Laura Rojas

is a writer, educator, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. Her undergraduate background is in Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires. She earned a Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing at NYU (2018). Her research focuses on migration, displacement, activism, and community relations.

 
 
 

Rosalia Reyes Simon

is a Ph.D. student in the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures Program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She was the manager of the archives (digital and physical) of CUNY´s Mexican Studies Institute, where she produced and wrote the scripts for the TV series "Mexican Studies Oral History Project." She has taught Spanish-language courses at City College of New York (CCNY) and Lehman College. She holds a BA in Journalism, UANL, (Mexico); an MA in Humanities, UDEM, (Mexico), and an MA in Spanish from CCNY. She is co-author of a chapter in the second edition of the book "Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition," from Notre Dame University Press (2017).

Lidia Hernandez Tapia

Lidia Hernández-Tapia is a multimedia journalist, translator, and scholar. Her journalistic work has been published in Cuba, the United States, and Germany, in outlets like Al-Jazeera English, CityLab, Univision, taz.de, and DemocracyNow!, among others. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at The CUNY Graduate Center.