RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND WORKING GROUPS

Yale University Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network (LAIGN), Member. 2022 - Present.

• Member of the LAIGN Gender in Arts and Humanities (Género en Artes y Humanidades) and Feminist Theory (Género y Teoría Feminista) working groups.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género (CIEG), Mexico City, Visiting Investigator. 2021 - 2022.

• Visiting Investigator with the CIEG, September 2021 - May 2022, worked under Dr. Hortensia Moreno Calvo on my dissertation research, at the time titled Wrestling with Hegemonic Masculinity: How Exóticos Are Changing Mexican Lucha Libre.

GRANTS & AWARDS

Stone Center Conference Presentation Funding. 2023.

• Received $312 in per diem funding awarded by the Tulane University Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies to present at the 2023 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

JE Land Fund. 2023.

• Awarded $608 for conference-related travel expenses by the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts to present at the 2023 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Tulane University School of Liberal Arts Summer Research Funding. 2022.

• Recipient of $4,500 for the SLA Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship to fund research and living expenses for the summer of 2022.

Stone Center Conference Presentation Funding. 2022.

• Registration reimbursement of $75 awarded by the Tulane University Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies to present at the 2022 Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS) conference.

The Changemaker Catalyst Award from the Phyllis M. Taylor Center at Tulane University. 2022.

• Recipient of a $1500 award to support travel to Mexico City in June of 2022 to conduct research for my dissertation. The Changemaker Catalyst award supports student projects related to social innovation, social entrepreneurship, design thinking, and changemaking.

Stone Center Conference Presentation Funding. 2021.

• Registration reimbursement of $150 awarded by the Tulane University Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies to present at the 2021 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference.

Fulbright U.S. Student Award Semi-Finalist. 2021.

• Semi-finalist for the Fulbright-García Robles grant to conduct research in Mexico City for my dissertation titled "Wrestling with Hegemonic Masculinity: How Exóticos are Changing Mexican Lucha Libre."

William J. Griffith Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Latin American Studies. 2020.

• Award given to graduate instructors for the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

Stone Center Summer Emergency Stay-At-Home Grant. 2020.

• Funding of $1000 awarded to graduate students to conduct research during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tinker and Stone Center Summer Field Research Grant. 2020.

• Awarded field research funding for $3,077 USD to conduct research in Mexico City, Mexico, in the summer of 2020; postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stone Center Conference Presentation Funding. 2019.

• Received $152 in per diem funding from the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University to present at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 2019 Annual Conference.

JE Land Fund. 2019.

• Awarded $500 for conference-related travel by the Tulane University School of Liberal Arts to present at the 2019 Popular Culture Association (PCA) conference.

GSSA Travel Funding. 2019.

• Awarded $380 by the Tulane University Graduate Studies Student Association to present at the 2019 Popular Culture Association (PCA) conference.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. 2018 - 2019.

• U.S. Department of Education scholarship to study Portuguese at Tulane University.

Jack Child Graduate Achievement Award. 2018.    

• Awarded by American University’s Department of World Languages & Cultures.

Jack Child Summer Research Award. 2017.                                                

• Awarded $1,922 by the American University Department of World Languages & Cultures to conduct research for Master's-level research in Mexico.

Fulbright U.S. Student Award. 2014 - 2015.                                                                              

• Awarded a Fulbright-García Robles grant to be an English Teaching Assistant in Mexico at the Universidad Tecnológica de León in León, Guanajuato.

Outstanding Senior in the Humanities Award. 2014.

• Awarded by Pacific University Humanities faculty.

Best Senior Thesis in Anthropology Award. 2014.

• Awarded by Pacific University Anthropology faculty.

Honorable Mention in the Common Knowledge Senior Project Writing Award. 2014.

• Awarded at Pacific University for senior thesis "The Formation of Mexican-American Understandings of Virginity."

Lambda Alpha National Honor Society for Anthropology. 2013.

• Inducted as a Gamma Chapter member at Pacific University.

Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society. 2012.

• Inducted as a member at Pacific University.