Goals

The long-term goal of United Fronteras is to engage with borderlands around the world to compare the experiences of these regions, bringing forward perspectives that oftentimes contradict the sentiments of division that are frequently influenced and represented by those in power. By engaging with this project, Humanities scholars are learning digital humanities practices through their research. This will prepare scholars to use both research and digital platforms/tools as new forms of social interventions to:

  • Use technology as resistance
  • Trace a digital record of the borderlands
  • Reach borderland communities
  • Deconstruct geopolitical boundaries
  • Document past and present daily lives at the borders
  • Share and create knowledge from personal experiences
  • Decentralize the discourse/rhetoric about the borderlands
  • Revisit and interpret historical records and narratives through a new lens
  • Expand the notion of digital humanities from borderlands communities

Values

The core values of United Fronteras are principles that guide our mission, vision, goals, objectives and creation procedures:

  • Collaboration
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Feminist Practices
  • Non-hierarchical Leadership
  • Transnational Alliances
  • Transfronteriza Consciousness
  • Humanizing Borderlands
  • Intersectionality and Diversity
  • Awareness of Indigenous Place, History, and Presence
  • Creation of a Digital Borderland Community

This is a living Mission Statement that will evolve as the project continues to develop

Meet the team

We are Digital Humanities scholars from various disciplines and universities. The team is composed mostly of women and border natives from various regions of the Mexico-U.S. border; the few who are not border natives have experienced this borderland, particularly and closely, through their lived experiences with (im)migration procedures and/or in their research.

Phase 1 (Mexico-U.S. Borderlands)

Carolina Alonso Carolina Alonso, Associate Professor, Borders and Languages and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Fort Lewis College
Maira E. Álvarez Maira E. Álvarez PhD., Early Career Provost Fellow. Borderlands Histories. Department of History. The University of Texas at Austin
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, PhD., Public & Digital Humanities Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
Laura Gonzales Laura Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics, University of Florida
Ivonne Ramírez Ivonne Ramírez, M.A. in Literature and gender Studies. Activist
Rubria Rocha Rubria Rocha de Luna, Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies Texas A&M University
Verónica Romero Verónica Romero, Ph.D. Student, Hispanic Studies University of Houston
Annette M. Zapata Annette M. Zapata, Ph.D. Candidate, Hispanic Studies, University of Houston

Advisors:

  • Roopika Risam>
  • Alex Gil>

Contributors:

  • Isis Campos
  • Estefanía Castañeda Perez
  • Vannessa Falcón Orta
  • Patricia Flores-Hutson
  • Nathan Ellstrand