I am an independent scholar who researches in the fields of architectural history, border studies, media studies, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, environmental humanities, aviation history, digital humanities, comics studies, and sports studies. I have taught courses on narrative cartography, discourses of air travel, film adaptation, border cinema, Latinx literature, Native American literature, Latinx comics, Indigenous cinema, Latinx policy, race and sports, and border crime writing. I am at work on a book manuscript about how national borders function as technical and textual practices, titled “Hyperborders: Cultural Techniques of the Trans-American Borderlands.” I also engage in critical cartography, creating what I call “moralized road maps” of migration narratives.
At present, I am also a Master’s candidate in Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon, where I am completing a thesis called “A Way of Treating History: The Life, Death, and Adaptive Reuse of the Houston Astrodome.”
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