Winners selected for $3M in grants supporting Latino humanities research - UIC Today. June 9, 2022

A $3 million grant competition from the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative will support Latino humanities research projects across the U.S. The projects range from art, literature and history to the emerging subfields of climate change and sound studies, as well as cutting-edge areas such as Afrolatinidades and archival studies.

Two projects:

Afro-Chicanx Digital Humanities Project

Principal investigators: Doris Careaga-Coleman, University of New Mexico; Michelle Tellez, University of Arizona; Micaela Díaz-Sanchez, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mapping Everyday Mexicana/Chicana Political Organization

Principal investigators: Cristina Salinas, University of Texas at Arlington; Jennifer Nájera, University of California, Riverside; Michelle Tellez, University of Arizona.

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Michelle Tellez