* NOTE: Due to recent changes at Zimmerman Library, they ask for an ID at the front. We are also making this event accesible online through Zoom, register here *
Help us welcome Dr. Michelle Téllez to UNM. Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas tells the story of the community’s struggle to carve out space for survival and thriving in the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. Through a feminist ethnography, Téllez demonstrates the state’s neglect in providing social services and local infrastructure. This neglect exacerbates the structural violence endemic to the border region—a continuation of colonial systems of power on the urban, rural, and racialized poor.
Dr. Michelle Téllez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her public and academic scholarship focuses on transnational community formations, mothering, and gendered migration along the U.S./Mexico borderlands. She has a long history in grassroots organizing projects, digital media and community-based arts and performance. In 2022, she and her Co-PIs were awarded two Crossing Latinidades Humanities Research Initiative grants for new work on Afro-Chicanx communities and Mexican/Chicana activists in the borderlands.
This event is in collaboration with and sponsored by: Crossing Latinidades, Departments of Chicana/o Studies, Latin American & Iberian Institute, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, El Centro de la Raza, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University Libraries Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections, and the Mellon Foundation.
