UNM professors’ proposals win grant competition

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.

The 10 working groups, whose proposal reviews and recommendations for funding were made by an independent and anonymous panel of experts in Latino humanities and humanistic social sciences, include Situating the Networks of Latinx Art.

Principal investigators: Abigail Lapin Dardashti, University of California, Irvine; Anna Indych-Lopez, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York; and Kency Cornejo, University of New Mexico.

“Our project, Situating the Networks of Latinx Art, sets foundations for new methodologies and theories in Latinx Humanities grounded in art history that centers Black, Indigenous, and Feminist Latinx creatives, creating possibilities for future interdisciplinary exchanges,” Cornejo said. “Our investigators bring together Chicanx, U.S. Central American, and U.S. Caribbean research experience and aim to overcome the site-specific confines that have defined Latinx art. Linking race, ethnicity, and gender to place and space in cross-regional Latinx visual art, our project brings to light images of belonging, displacement, movement, migration, and solidarity.”

The research will situate networks of exchange across geographies, identities, and place hood in the United States, and connect U.S. Latinx communities that have previously been siloed, Cornejo continued, adding that the Crossing Latinidades grant will enable her group to conduct archival research, oral history interviews, document previously unstudied artworks; workshop their research and writing in virtual and in-person meetings; host a major symposium with invited artists, scholars, and activists; and organize a peer-reviewed journal publication.

To read the full articles: