María Célleri, Assistant Professor, Gender, Women’s + Sexuality Studies; Tania Lizarazo, Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; Thania Muñoz D., Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; and Yolanda Valencia, Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
Project: “Abya Yala”
The Abya Yala Project is a multi-layered series of events and collaborative work that will lead to opening the Abya Yala Research Lab—a space to support research on Latin American Studies at UMBC. Abya Yala is one of the Indigenous names for the Americas. As decolonial Latin Americanists, these faculty are committed to community-building scholarship that does not center one single language, nationality, or field of study. The summer fellowship will focus on preliminary work for a multimodal open-access edited volume, including contributions from students, faculty, artists, and other community members. Following a community event in May 2024 to meet Latina/es in the DMV region interested in contributing to this collaborative publication, the Abya Yala Project will create, send out, and begin submission reviews for a Call for Abstracts during the Summer of 2024.
Photo by Mariana Orellana.
For a list of previous Summer Fellows, please visit the Archives page.