Projects

US-Mexico Borderlands Exhibit

The US-Mexico Borderlands Exhibit is the resulf of Phase 1 of United Fronteras. The exhibit consists of a digital directory of projects documenting contacts and divergences in the Mexico and the United States border region from pre-colonial times to the 21st century. This digital record allows you to see this border from different perspectives, including literature, archives, art, oral histories, music, etc., and compiles active and inactive platforms that make use of digital and/or technological components.

The first binational symposium of United Fronteras

Since 2019, the team of UnitedFronteras (phase 1) has compiled a series of projects/materials that use various kinds of digital technologies to shed light on different stories of the U.S.-Mexico border since pre-colonial times to the present. With a focus on Digital Humanities, the symposium aims to amplify all the outstanding work done about the Mexico-U.S. border before and after its geopolitical division utilizing digital technologies with a humanities lens. The event is an initial conversation with project creators and people committed to social justice in this region to understand the current state of field and proposed necessary and urgent collaborations, infrastructures, and specifications to expand platforms for border people to tell their own stories and intervene in the colonial structure of the analog and digital cultural record.

Video of Symposium, Day 1, June 2, 2021

Video of Symposium, Day 2, June 3, 2021

Symposium Day 1, June 2, 2021

Roundtable 1. Creating United Fronteras Phase 1

Moderator: Alex Gil, United Fronteras digital humanities and minimal computing advisor. Digital Scholarship Librarian, Columbia University Libraries. He collaborates with faculty, students and library professionals leveraging computational and network technologies in humanities research, pedagogy and knowledge production. He is among the founders of several ongoing, warmly received initiatives where he currently plays leadership roles.

Maira E. Álvarez, United Fronteras team member, Ph.D. research interests lie in the study of U.S. Latino/a, U.S.-Mexico Border, and Latin American Literature, as well as Border and Women’s Studies, archives, and digital humanities. She is co-founder of Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC), a transborder digital archive; and team member of Torn Apart / Separados, a rapidly deployed critical data and visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 “Zero Tolerance Policy.”

Laura Gonzales, United Fronteras team member, Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her work centers on the intersections of community engagement, translation, and technology design. She is the author of Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us About Digital Writing and Rhetoric, was was awarded the 2016 University of Michigan Press Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize and the 2020 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.

Rubria Rocha de Luna, United Fronteras team member. Ph.D Candidate in Hispanic Studies with an emphasis on Visual/Cultural Studies and a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities from the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), both from Texas A&M University. She has collaborated in several digital projects, and is the Director and co-founder of Redes, migrantes sin Fronteras, a digital initiative for migrant community and solidarity. Her current research work revolves around digital rhetoric through text and data mining of social media posts from groups of returned migrants to Mexico. Other research interests are public humanities, memory and digital archiving and preservation.

Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, United Fronteras team member and principal coordinator, Public and DH Postdoc Research Fellow with the Hall Center for the Humanities and Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas. Fernández earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies (Literature) with certifications in Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies and Spanish as a Heritage Language from the University of Houston. She is among the creators and team member of remarkable public and digital bilingual initiatives/projects: Borderlands Archives Cartography, GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs, Torn Apart/Separados, Huellas Incómodas and others.

Conversation 1. Indigenous Land, Mapping, & Technologies

Moderator:Laura Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her work centers on the intersections of community engagement, translation, and technology design. She is the author of Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us About Digital Writing and Rhetoric, was was awarded the 2016 University of Michigan Press Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize and the 2020 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.

Victor Temprano, founder of Native Land. He is a settler living in Kelowna, BC, on the territories of the Syilx. He grew up in Okanagan territory in central British Columbia. He began Native Land in late 2014 as a hobby project, after attending pipeline protests and beginning to look more into the traditional territories of different nations in relation to resource development. Victor is the CEO of a small tech company, Mapster Technology Inc., which focuses on interactive mapmaking and also works in the area of Indigenous education and language revitalization. Victor continues to help support the employees of Native Land and plays a large role in day-to-day operations.

Shane Lynch, founder of PeePosh Migration and doctoral student in American Studies at the University of Kansas.

Paloma Vargas, creator of "Native Texans:The Coahuiltecan Speakers of the San Antonio Mission," Ph.D. in History and Hispanic Literature, Research Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her line of research is the approach of textual criticism in the study of the ethnohistoric sources of the Mexican indigenous and colonial past. She published the critical edition of the Book of the Rites of Fray Diego Durán with El Colegio de México in 2018. She is a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico, level 1, and external researcher of the project “Theater, party and ritual in the Hispanic monarchy (ss. XVI-XVII) ”promoted by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain. She was a member of the executive committee of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities. She has been the director of the online Master in Humanistic Studies and developed the design of the curriculum for the Master in Digital Humanities at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is currently the director of the Bachelor of Hispanic Letters.

Danielle Bram, General Coordinator of the International Spatial Technology and Research Lab (iSTAR)/ Mexico-United States Border Geoportal-iSTAR-UNAM and a GIS professional and project manager with over 20 years of experience in the higher education, geospatial consulting, and public agency sectors. Although her applied research interests and experience cover a variety of areas, she is most engaged with water and natural resource GIS projects. Danielle is currently director of the Center for Geospatial Science and Technology at CSU, Northridge.

Héctor Reséndiz, Technical Coordinator of the International Spatial Technology and Research Lab (iSTAR)/ Mexico-United States Border Geoportal-iSTAR-UNAM and Civil Engineer, Master's in Transportation Systems Engineering and Ph.D. Candidate in Geography at the UNAM

Borderlands DH Awards

Announced by Janine Fitzgerald, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology & Human Services at Fort Lewis College

Award #1: Selene Díaz, Project: "Images and Narratives by Indigenous communities in Ciudad Juárez".

Award #2: Hipatia Medina-Ágreda, Project: "#BorderStudies: Snapshots de violencia y religiosidad en la cotidianidad fronteriza representados en la novela Canícula por Norma Elía Cantú".

Conversation 2. Documenting Photographs, Art & Memory

Moderator: Hipatia Medina-Ágreda, Ph.D. student at the University of Kansas in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures under the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She received a M.A. in Spanish from Baylor University in 2015, a B.A. in Spanish from Baptist University of the Americas in 2013, and a B.B.A. in Marketing from Texas A&M University in 2003. She was raised in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, México. Concerned with the political and violent representations of the border, she focuses her research on Border Literature.

Alfonso Castillo, team member of Everyday La Frontera, photographer and instructor in Sonora, state in the northeast Mexico.

Stefan Falke, founder of LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US-Mexican Border and photographer,lives in New York City. Images from his book projects LA FRONTERA: Artists along the US-Mexican Border and MOKO JUMBIES: The Dancing Spirits of Trinidad have been published in magazines around the world and were shown in over 20 solo exhibitions. His newest and first self published book (on blurb.com) titled KEEP GOING NEW YORK !! is the result of documenting New York City's streets and its resilient people during the challenging year of 2020, reflecting his appreciation for his chosen hometown of the last twenty years. Falke is a member of the German photo agency laif.

Trinidad Gonzales, co-founder and president of, Refusing To Forget. Trinidad Gonzales is a history and Mexican American Studies instructor at South Texas College. His research focuses on the United States/Mexico borderlands and group identity. He was the first Latino CO-OP Student for the Smithsonian Institution where he conducted field research for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s El Río Program for the Folklife Festival. He facilitated participant talk sessions for the program as well. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston and serviced as the American Historical Association Teaching Division Councilor, 2014-2017. As part of his work for the AHA he helped begin the Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses. The conference helps bridge classroom teaching practices and concerns with educational policy discussions. Gonzales has written op-ed pieces concerning Mexican American Studies, race and racism, and immigration that have appeared in the Austin American Statesman, San Antonio Express, and the McAllen Monitor.

Conversation 3. Activism and Feminist Movements

Moderator: Carolina Alonso, team member of United Fronteras and Assistant Professor of Borders and Languages, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fort Lewis College. Dr. Alonso teaches and researches about the Spanish language, US Latinx literature and culture, as well as gender and sexuality studies. She was born and raised in the border region of Tamaulipas and the Rio Grande Valley.

Ivonne Carlos, founder of Ellas tienen nombre, and Activist/ M.A. in Literature and Gender Studies.

Ivonne Mendoza , general coordinator of Centro para el Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer, A.C.

Alejandra Aragón, director and photographer of Ecos del desierto, and visual artist originally from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Through a multidisciplinary process using video, audio, photography, digital media, performative strategies and found images, her work explores the intersections between gender, territory and identity from a decolonial position.

Isaura Fabra, creator of Mapa #UnVioladorentuCamino, Uruguayan and lives in Montevideo. She is 43 years old and her main area of professional work is care. Fabra graduated from Initial Educator and worked as a nanny for many years, studied Mathematics teaching but left to work as INAU Hospital Companion for 11 years in which studied Therapeutic Accompaniment, which is what she currently works for. She is a social and trade union activist since high school. As a Feminist, Fabra have been building her position for about 7 years and it was from the Feminist International that she came to Geochicas and from there created the map.

Conversation 4. Sounds Without Borders

Moderator: Verónica Romero, a Venezuelan journalist living in Houston, Tx. She has worked in the mainstream media in her country and in the United States. Her interests focus on culture, identity, and language. Currently, she is a doctoral student in the Linguistics program at the University of Houston.

Carla Álvarez, team member of Onda Latina: The Mexican American Experience and Latino Studies Archivist at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries .

Miguel Olmos Aguilera, founder of El Paisaje Fronterizo de la Frontera Norte / Fonoteca COLEF. Researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, in Tijuana since 1998, he completed a doctorate in Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the EHESS in Paris. In Mexico he studied Ethnomusicology and Ethnology degrees at the Faculty of Music and at the ENAH. As an ethnomusicologist he has worked among various indigenous groups in northwestern Mexico and southern USA. He directed the Department of Cultural Studies, from 2009 to 2013. Since 1998 he has belonged to SNI Level II. Among his books are: El Chivo Encantado. FORCA 2011; Memoria Vulnerable, Patrimonio cultural en contextos de frontera. INAH-COLEF 2011; he has published several discs of indigenous music; In 2012 he directed and produced the documentary Pueblos en Riesgo, and Tradición transición en la música indígena contemporánea in 2016. He recently participated in the magazine Usted no está aquí, in an issue dedicated to Sound Maps of Latin America. Sound transformation in quarantine.

Jane Terrazas, creator of Río Anduirno and multidisciplinary artist that research the textil object as social metaphoric.

Symposium Day 2, June 3, 2021

Conversation 5. Intersections of Border Literatures

Moderator: Gris Muñoz, co-creator of GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs and fronteriza poet and storyteller. Author of the bilingual poetry and short story collection, Coatlihue Girl.

Cesar Leonardo de León, one of four poet-organizers for Poets Against Walls, a grass-roots collective of poets and educators dedicated to centering and elevating work by Borderland writers, artists, and activists affected by borders and divisions of all kinds. Most recently he has facilitated community workshops in collaboration with Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Perez and La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE). Other projects he has worked on include workshops and fundraisers with other writers and activists benefiting local communities in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and elsewhere. His work has appeared in various anthologies and literary journals. Cesar’s first collection of poems speaking with grackles by soapberry trees is forthcoming from FlowerSong press in the spring of 2021.

Carlos Urani Montiel, in charge of the research project Juaritos Literario: Cartografía Literaria de Ciudad Juárez. BA in Hispanic Letters from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City; Doctor in Hispanic Studies from Western University, in Ontario, Canada, where he obtained the degree with the thesis Red de comunicación jesuita desde las misiones sudamericanas: el caso de Moxos, published as a book by the UACJ (2018). He belongs to the National System of Researchers, level I, of CONACyT. Full-time professor-researcher at the UACJ, at the Department of Humanities. He directs the Documentación Dramática Norteatro, a group of theater criticism; his homonymous book, published in co-authorship (Eón: 2019), was awarded the XVI Annual Guillermo Rousset Banda Prize for Literary Criticism and Political Essay. Coordinates the Chihuahuan Dramaturgy Catalog, a project for the dissemination of cultural heritage supported by FONCA through the David Alfaro Siqueiros Program of Stimuli for Artistic Creation and Development (PEAC), as well as Literary Routes on the Border, a seed project belonging to the Programs National Strategic (PRONACES) of CONACyT.

Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez, creator of A Visual History of Chicanx Literature and professor of literature and founding faculty at the University of California, Merced. He has published the books P. Galindo: Obras (in)completas de José Díaz (2016), The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century (2015), Cantas a Marte y das batalla a Apolo: Cinco estudios sobre Gaspar de Villagrá (2014), With a Book in Their Hands: Chicano/a Readers and Readerships Across the Centuries (2014), a scholarly edition of Gaspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la nveva Mexico (2010), Gaspar de Villagrá: Legista, soldado y poeta (2009), Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature (2003), La voz urgente: Antología de literatura chicana en español (1995), and Rolando Hinojosa y su "cronicón" chicano: Una novela del lector (1993). His essays have appeared in multiple edited books and journals, including PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, The Bilingual Review, The Americas Review, Hispania, Revista Iberoamericana, and Aztlán, among others.

Esther M. García, founder of Mapa de escritoras mexicanas contemporáneas and Mexican poet and writer, earned her Bacherlors degree in Hispanic Letters at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Author of Bitácora de mujeres extrañas, Mamá es un animal negro que va de largo por las alcobas blancas,Dead Woman's Body, among others.

Conversation 6. Migration, Storytelling & Digital Solidarity

Moderator: Gabriella Sánchez, a socio-cultural anthropologist. Her work has documented, relying on participatory methods, the experiences of men, women and children charged with facilitating irregular migration along borders along the US Mexico border, the Americas, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Her upbringing both as a migrant and a fronteriza has shaped her critique of academic and policy discourse on organized crime, border controls and enforcement, and life on the border.

Yolanda Leyva, Director of the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso. Chicana historian and writer who was born and raised on the border. She is the Former Chair of the Department of History and an Associate Professor. She has spent her life listening to and now documenting the lives of people who live on la frontera. Her life calling is that of temachtiani, Nahuatl for teacher, and she works to learn from the huehuehtlahtolli, the ancestral teachings of ancient Mexico. Professor Leyva specializes in border history, public history, and Chicana history. She has directed various public history projects focusing on the U.S.-Mexico border over the past decade. Most recently, she served as Project Developer for “El Paso: The Other Side of the Mexican Revolution,” a groundbreaking museum exhibit on El Paso’s role in the Revolution. She is also co-directing the creation of Museo Urbano 2010, a museum that emphasizes historic buildings as artifact. In the past, she has directed an oral history project with the Socorro community and a “museum for a day” project involving UTEP graduate students and high school students as well as the creation of a website, “Border Public History.”

Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana, founder of the DACAmented: DREAMs Without Borders digital storytelling project. A first-generation Chicana/x student of color and a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Davis. As a UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellow she is writing her doctoral dissertation on the deportation of childhood arrivals. Her academic scholarship emphasizes a feminist and Publicly Engaged Digital Humanities approach. Since 2016 she has participated as a researcher and narrative facilitator for the Humanizing Deportation digital storytelling project. In 2017 she launched the DACAmented: DREAMs Without Borders digital storytelling project. Both projects document the stories of (im)migrants who have faced and are vulnerable to deportation. As a 2019 Public Mellon Scholar, she directed the Playas de Tijuana Mural Project, a community mural in Friendship Park at the U.S.-Mexico Border. The mural centers the myriad of stories behind the United State’s Childhood Arrivals dilemma through portraiture and digital storytelling. She envisioned this digital artivism project as part of her doctoral dissertation.

Elle Mehrmand, team member of Transborder Immigrant Tool (Arte útil) and a new media performance artist and musician who utilizes the body, video, sound, and electronics within her installations in order to explore transnational and techné bodies. She received her MFA from UCSD in Visual Arts, and her BFA in Photography with a minor in music from CSULB. She has been awarded grants from UCIRA, the Russell Foundation, and the Fine ArtsAffiliates. Elle is a collective member of the Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 (Transborder Immigrant Tool), a collective member of KILLSONIC, and is the singer and trombone player for MAGNETIZED. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, Reno, Salt Lake City, Durham, Tijuana, Mexico City, Athens, Toronto, Montréal, Dublin, Istanbul, São Paulo, Bogotá, and Seoul. Her work has been discussed in Artforum, Art21, the LA Times, WIRED, Juxtapoz, VICE, Networked Performance, Reno News and Review, the LA Weekly, the OC weekly, and furtherfield.org

Amy Sara Carroll, co-producer of Transborder Immigrant Tool (Arte útil) and an Associate Professor of Literature and Writing at the University of California, San Diego. Her books include SECESSION; FANNIE + FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, chosen by Claudia Rankine for Fordham University’s 2012 Poets Out Loud Prize; and REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era, which received honorable mentions for the 2017 Modern Language Association Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, the 2018 Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities, and the 2019 Association for Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award. Since 2008, she has been a member of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, coproducing the Transborder Immigrant Tool. She coauthored [({ })] The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto. Published under a Creative Commons license, the volume has been digitally redistributed by CTheory Books, CONACULTA E-Literatura/Centro de Cultura Digital, and HemiPress. Carroll was a 2017-2018 Fellow in Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities, a 2018-2019 Fellow in the University of Texas at Austin’s Latino Research Initiative, and since 2010 has participated in Mexico City’s alternative arts space SOMA. Previously she taught literature and creative writing at The New School in New York City.

Rubria Rocha, Director and co-founder of Redes, migrantes sin Fronteras, a digital initiative for migrant community and solidarity. Ph.D Candidate in Hispanic Studies with an emphasis on Visual/Cultural Studies and a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities from the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), both from Texas A&M University. She has collaborated in several digital projects, and is the . Her current research work revolves around digital rhetoric through text and data mining of social media posts from groups of returned migrants to Mexico. Other research interests are public humanities, memory and digital archiving and preservation.

Borderlands DH Awards

Announce by Brian Rosenblum, Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) and Scholarly Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Kansas Libraries

Award #3: Pico del Hierro-Villa, Project: "Borderlands Queers: From Surviving to Thriving".

Award #4: Lizeth Cárdenas, Project: "Jazz en la frontera".

Conversation 7. Border Archives & Digital Technologies

Moderator, Maira Álvarez, Ph.D., research interests lie in the study of U.S. Latino/a, U.S.-Mexico Border, and Latin American Literature, as well as Border and Women’s Studies, archives, and digital humanities. She is co-founder of Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC), a transborder digital archive; team member of Torn Apart / Separados, a rapidly deployed critical data and visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 “Zero Tolerance Policy;” and member of United Fronteras, a digital record of works about the borderlands.

"Using Newspapers as Data for Collaborative Pedagogy: A Multidisciplinary Interrogation of the Borderlands in Undergraduate Classrooms"

Megan Senseney,serves as key library personnel at the project. Head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship at the University of Arizona Libraries. She works collaboratively on a number of projects that sit at the intersection of digital humanities and data curation with a research interest in qualitative studies of complex socio-technical research environments. In particular, she is interested in understanding what happens when scholar’s research needs are at odds with the policies and technical infrastructures that govern their work. Previously, she held appointments as a research scientist and project coordinator at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences where she also received an MS LIS in 2008.

Mary Feeney,serves as the Project Lead for this initiative. News Research Librarian and Liaison Librarian for History, Journalism, Gender & Women’s Studies, and Sociology at the University of Arizona Libraries, where she collaborates with faculty and students in their research, teaching, and learning. Mary led the UA Libraries’ partnership with the State Library of Arizona on a National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant and was a member of the UA Libraries’ team that created the Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press digital collection. Mary has presented and published about the use of newspapers in research, newspaper digitization, text mining, and teaching with primary sources.

Anita Huízar-Hernández, served as Disciplinary Scholar in this initiative.Associate Professor of Border Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. Her research investigates the relationship among narrative, place, and identity in the Southwest Borderlands.

Border Studies Archive

Shannon Pensa, Head of Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley Library.

Guy Duke, Curator of the Border Studies Archive (2020). Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is co-director of Proyecto Arqueológico Riós Culebra-Colín (PARCC) with Dr. Sarah Rowe.

Samantha Bustillos,work at UTRGV Special Collections and Archives as a Student Assistant where she research on Rio Grande Valley regional history. She is pursuing a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley. In 2019, Ms. Bustillos earned a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Anthropology at UTRGV. Ms. Bustillos is a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholar and UTRGV Engaged Scholar. As an Engaged Scholar, she conducted and presented her research findings on biracial families in the Rio Grande Valley during the U.S. Civil War at UTRGV ES2 Symposium in 2019. Ms. Bustillos also served as a docent for the Community Historical Archeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) in collaboration with the traveling exhibit War and Peace on the Rio Grande.

Roundtable 2. Pedagogy with United Fronteras

Course: Cultures of Latin America, University of North Florida

Clayton McCarl, Associate professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of North Florida (UNF).

Alexandra Zapata, pursuing a dual degree in Criminal Justice and Spanish at UNF.

Suerta Benga, pursuing a dual degree in Biology and Spanish at UNF.

Course: Digital Storytelling in the Borderlands/ La Frontera, University of Kansas

Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, United Fronteras team member and principal coordinator, Public and DH Postdoc Research Fellow, Hall Center for the Humanities and Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas

Luisa Garcés Sierra, Ph.D. student at the University of Kansas in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures under the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.She studied Law at the University Pontificia Bolivariana and specialized in social security at the Externado de Colombia University.

Sandra León, M.A. student in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Kansas. She received a B.A. in Library Science from the Universidad de Costa Rica in San José, Costa Rica. Her current research explores Afro-Costa Rican history, literature, and culture.

Haley Bajorek, graduated with honors from the University of Kansas with her B.A. in Anthropology as well as with a minor in Communication Studies. As a graduate student, Haley is pursuing a joint master's degree in African and African American Studies and Museum Studies with the goal of better understanding American history and its broader diasporic connections to elevate underrepresented and erased historical narratives in the museum. Her research interests center critical theories in race, education, and gender and sexuality studies with a specific focus of using museums as a tool for social change.

Roundtable 3. Reviews in DH Borderlands Special Issue

Journal: Reviews in Digital Humanities

Roopika Risam,co-editor of Reviews in Digital Humanities. Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education and English at Salem State University. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (2018) and co-editor of Intersectionality in Digital Humanities (2019), South Asian Digital Humanities (2020), and The Digital Black Atlantic (2021).

Jennifer Guiliano,co-editor of Reviews in Digital Humanities. A white academic living and working on the lands of the Myaamia/Miami, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Wea, and Shawnee peoples. She currently holds a position as Associate Professor in the Department of History and affiliated faculty in both Native American and Indigenous Studies and American Studies at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Special Issue: Borderlands Digital Humanities

Laura Gonzales, United Fronteras team member, Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics, University of Florida

Rubria Rocha de Luna, United Fronteras team member and Director and co-founder of Redes, migrantes sin Fronteras. Ph.D Candidate in Hispanic Studies with an emphasis on Visual/Cultural Studies and a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities from the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), both from Texas A&M University.

Verónica Romero, United Fronteras team member and a Venezuelan journalist living in Houston, Tx. Currently, she is a doctoral student in the Linguistics program at the University of Houston.

Ivonne Carlos, United Fronteras team member, founder of Ellas tienen nombre, and Activist/ M.A. in Literature and Gender Studies.

Symposium Day 3, June 4, 2021

Special thanks!

Supporters and organizers of the event: Carolina Alonso, Maira Álvarez, Sylvia Fernández, Laura Gonzales, Ivonne Carlos, Rubria Rocha, Verónica Romero, Nathan Ellstrand, Janine Fitzgerald-Fort Lewis College (Borders and Languages Program), and Brian Rosenblum-Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH)