The Assistant Director of the Global Latinidades Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is named one of the 2024-25 Crossing Latindades Mellon Humanities Fellows, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. In a cohort of 31, he is one of two doctoral students vetted by the Chicano Studies Institute to represent UC Santa Barbara as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) committed to supporting the next generation of US Latinx Studies scholars.
The 2024 Global Spains Workshop on Conviviality and Accompaniment: Dialogues with Grass Root Organizations and Organic Intellectuals in Madrid, Spain (Global Spains) is a ten-day interdisciplinary workshop that introduces students to the ethics and methods of action-research in collaboration with grassroots organizations. The workshop focuses on non-extractive, collectivist modes of knowledge production and various models of organic intellectual praxis. This international workshop is sponsored by the UCSB Global Latinidades Center, Duke University’s Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South, and Madrid’s grassroots organization YoSoyElOtro, and emphasizes global transatlantic approaches to various ethnic and area studies––Latina/o/e/x, Latin American, Global, and allied and intersecting fields.
The grant will support infrastructure, staff & 12 students from UCSB & the UC System for the 2023 Summer Ateneo with local community organizers and community-based researchers in Oaxaca City and surrounding communities.
