Professor Simone Ferro (Dance; right) and her longtime research partner Meredith Watts (Political Science; left) pictured at a baptism ceremony for one of Bumba-meu-boi’s distinctive ox puppets. The two worked with Marcello to preserve their ethnographic research for a new generation of scholars

The research project in question is Professor Simone Ferro’s (51���� Dance emerita) nearly two decades of ethnographic research on , a UNESCO-recognized based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão and which spans musical performance, choreography, theatrical and ritualistic performance and playful expression. In partnership with Ferro’s longtime research partner Professor Meredith Watts (51���� Political Science emeritus), these collaborations with communities in Maranhão have resulted in a vast trove of video footage, audio interviews, still images, and original artifacts that capture the richness of how this tradition informs community life across northeastern Brazil.

With over 20,000 still images, more than 500 hours of performance videos, and more than 200 interviews, Ferro and Watts knew they needed a research assistant who had both the technical precision and cultural sensitivity to assess and organize these multimedia materials into an easy-to-navigate digital repository for anyone to access for decades to come. Through 51����’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Department of Spanish & Portuguese (now World Languages & Cultures), they found a perfect match in Marcello.

Film & Portuguese student Lucca Marcello produced both an archival database and a feature-length documentary to publicize nearly two decades of research by 51���� faculty

Lucca Marcello had just spent the 2024-25 academic year as a FLAS Fellow in Portuguese through CLACS: the prestigious federal grant for language and area studies allowed him to take courses in Portuguese language and cultures as he pursued the minor. 51���� Professor Susana Antunes recommended Marcello, whose strong coursework in the area had developed a deep cultural understanding and strong language skills to be able to work with the hours of Portuguese-language interviews in the archive. As a result, he was able to establish a comprehensive metadata framework whose conceptual framing of materials will support public communications about the project for years to come.

As Professor Ferro notes, “The scope of this undertaking required not only rigorous organizational competence but also the intellectual agility to navigate between scholarly transcription, visual anthropology, and audiovisual archiving. Marcello demonstrated a rare capacity to integrate technical precision with cultural sensitivity, approaching each document as both artifact and living testimony within a fragile ecosystem of memory.” Drawing on his skills as a Film Production major through the Peck School of the Arts, Marcello was also able to expand on the original vision Ferro and Watts had outlined for archiving the materials, developing both a feature-length documentary highlighting these dances as well as individual edited videos to educate about and preserve this tradition, posted on YouTube.

For Marcello, whose family is from southern Brazil, the yearlong collaboration was an opportunity to expand his cultural knowledge and produce original research: “There are 2000 miles between Porto Alegre, the city where my family is from, and São Luís, the capital of Maranhão … learning about Maranhão’s traditions made me realize how incredibly diverse Brazil is. I learned about Afro-Brazilian rituals which blend traditional Africanism with Catholicism, and with my undergraduate research I submitted an academic article about the Bumba meu Boi festival to Revista Luso-Hispánica.”

Scene from a��Bumba��meu Boi celebration in Maranhão (credit: Meredith Watts)

This work, which was supported by an academic internship in Portuguese and a SURF award from the 51���� Office of Undergraduate Research, provided invaluable experience in archive management, documentary production, and publicly-oriented research communication. Ferro emphasizes that “[Lucca’s] presence within this ambitious project has been anchored in collaborative rigor, artistic discernment, and a profound respect for the communities represented – qualities that have strengthened both the scholarly integrity and the future public life of this singular archive.”

These cross-disciplinary collaborations are the heart of the work of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, enabling connections across disciplines that deepen research knowledge and communicate its importance to broader audiences. As Marcello looks to continue working in documentary production, he can point to a strong portfolio of work in public storytelling and cultural documentation that is already reaching new audiences.

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This talk is part of the LACUSL Speaker Series: Join us to learn about the many topics you can study through 51����’s interdisciplinary LACUSL major (Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies).

Investigating Ancient Casmeños, a Precolonial Urban Culture

In this presentation, Professor David Pacifico will discuss the process of investigating the ancient Casma culture from the North Coast of Peru, circa 700-1400CE. He details the methods he and others have used to find and interpret remains they left behind and how those conclusions fit into wider academic narratives. In a conversational format, he also explains his strategy for developing his career to this point and in guiding what comes next.

Professor David Pacifico is Associate Professor of Art History at UW-Milwaukee, where he researches and regularly teaches courses on the material culture of South America and Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago, and has conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Casma Valley region of Peru for many years, where he is currently Director of the Casma Hinterland Archaeological Project. Professor Pacifico’s work also promotes public engagement with archaeological heritage, both locally in Peru and here in Milwaukee; at 51���� he is on the Museum Studies Advisory Board and Director of the Milwaukee Community Archaeology Project.

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Este evento contará com interpretação simultânea em inglês e português. Veja abaixo os detalhes completos em português do evento.

Centering Indigenous Knowledges in Contemporary Brazil

In this online panel we will hear from three Brazilian educators (broadly defined) about their work promoting the wellbeing of their Native communities and cultures in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Drawing from the fields of cultural geography, human rights, film, education, and beyond, these panelists will discuss how the worldviews of the Terena and Guató peoples inform their professional work in Brazilian universities, primary schools, and cultural institutions and media. 51���� professors Mark Freeland (Anthropology, American Indian studies) and Susana Antunes (Portuguese) join them to draw comparisons across regions and disciplines. This discussion will be in both English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation for both languages.

About our speakers

Antônio Hilário Aguilera Urquiza

Antônio Hilário Aguilera Urquiza holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Salamanca, Spain (USAL) and completed postdoctoral studies at UNTREF, Argentina. He is Full Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul and PI of the research group in Anthropology, Human Rights, and Traditional Peoples. Aguilera Urquiza’s academic work is the result of more than 30 years of work among Indigenous peoples, with an emphasis on the themes of territorial rights, indigenous education, interculturality/decoloniality, and the perseverance of indigenous peoples in higher education. He is a member of the Board of Directors of ABA (Brazilian Association of Anthropology – 2025/2026) and has coordinated the Indigenous Knowledge in Schools Action (Secadi/MEC) in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul since 2013.

Paulo Baltazar

Paulo Baltazar��holds a PhD in Geography from the Federal University of Grande Dourados. He is a professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (Aquidauana campus), teaching in the Indigenous Intercultural degree program focused on peoples of the Pantanal. His research specialties include the Terena language; cultural geography; ethnogeography; anthropology; and territorial management. In 2023 he was awarded an honorable mention in the Maurício Almeida Abreu Thesis Award 2023, by the postgraduate program at the Federal University of Grande Dourados.

Gleycielli Nonato Guató

Gleycielli Nonato Guató is a writer, screenwriter, actress, and cultural producer from the Guató indigenous people of the Pantanal (Mato Grosso do Sul). She holds a graduate degree in Arts, Literature, and Culture. Her artistic production spans literature, oral tradition, and audiovisual media, affirming indigenous ancestry, feminine strength, and territory as a space for memory and identity. In cinema, she develops narratives that highlight the contemporary Indigenous presence, with a sensitive and poetic view of the Pantanal. Her language articulates daily life, spirituality, and oral tradition, creating works that dialogue between past and present. Her work is marked by poetic realism and an original, decolonial authorship. The living memory of the Pantanal and the Indigenous female voice are at the center of her aesthetic, reaffirming cinema as a space for cultural resistance and identity affirmation.

Susana L. M. Antunes

Susana L. M. Antunes holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and is Associate Professor of Language, Literature, and Lusophone Cultures at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also serves as Coordinator of the Portuguese Program. Her research interests focus on methodologies for teaching Portuguese as a second language (L2), contemporary poetry in Portuguese, travel literature, and island literatures (Ecocriticism, Geopoetics) in Portuguese, French, and English, from a humanistic and comparative perspective. Among her many collaborations, Antunes is a researcher in the research group Landscape Studies in Portuguese-Language Literatures at Brazil’s Federal Fluminense University, as well as at the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon, where she participates in the project to create a Digital Encyclopedia in Island Studies. She is also a translator for the International Institute of Geopoetics, France. She has published on these topics in national and international journals and edited volumes.

Mark Freeland

Mark Freeland��is Bear Clan and a member of the Bahweting community in Northern Michigan (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Chippewa). He received a Master of Divinity from the Iliff School of Theology and a Ph D in Religious and Theological Studies from the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver joint doctoral program. His research critically identifies the role of Indigenous worldview as an integral component of cultural and linguistic translations. His book,��Aazheyaadizi: Worldview, Language and the Logics of Decolonization, provides a theoretical grounding for understanding the problematic role that religion continues to play within Indigenous communities and calls for a deeper involvement of the logics of worldview in the regeneration of Indigenous lifeways and protection of our relationships to our environment.

This event is presented by��the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education.

Colocando em Destaque os Saberes Indígenas no Brasil Contemporâneo

Terça-feira, 21 de abril de 2026
17h00–18h30 (Mato Grosso do Sul) / 16h00–17h30 (Milwaukee, Chicago)
Webinar pelo Zoom –����para obter o link de acesso
Este evento será gravado e compartilhado posteriormente com todos os inscritos.

Neste painel online, ouviremos três educadores brasileiros (em sentido amplo) falarem sobre seu trabalho na promoção do bem-estar de suas comunidades e culturas indígenas no estado do Mato Grosso do Sul. Com base em áreas como geografia cultural, direitos humanos, cinema, educação e outras, esses palestrantes discutirão como as visões de mundo dos povos Terena e Guató influenciam seu trabalho profissional em universidades, escolas de ensino fundamental, instituições culturais e meios de comunicação brasileiros. Os professores da Universidade de Wisconsin em Milwaukee Mark Freeland (Antropologia, Estudos Indígenas da América do Norte) e Susana Antunes (Português) se juntam a eles para fazer comparações entre regiões e disciplinas. O evento será realizado em inglês e português, com interpretação simultânea para ambas as línguas.

Sobre nossos palestrantes

Antônio Hilário Aguilera Urquiza

Antônio Hilário Aguilera Urquiza��é doutorado em Antropologia pela Universidade de Salamanca, Espanha (USAL), e pós-doutorado na UNTREF, na Argentina. É professor Titular e Emérito da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul e líder do grupo de pesquisa Antropologia, Direitos Humanos e Povos Tradicionais. A produção acadêmica é fruto de mais de 30 anos de trabalho entre os povos indígenas, com ênfase nos temas dos direitos territoriais, educação indígena, interculturalidade/decolonialidade e permanência de indígenas na educação superior. Faz parte da Diretoria da ABA (Associação Brasileira de Antropologia – 2025/2026) e coordena desde 2013, no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, a Ação Saberes Indígenas na Escola (Secadi/MEC).

Paulo Baltazar

Paulo Baltazar��é doutor em Geografia pela Universidade Federal de Grande Dourados. É docente da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (campus de Aquidauana), no curso de Licenciatura Intercultural Indígena. Pesquisador com ênfase na Língua Terena; Geografia Cultural; Etnogeografia; Antropologia e Gestão Territorial. Em 2023, recebeu uma menção honrosa no Prêmio Maurício Almeida Abreu de Tese, pela PPGG – UFGD – Dourados/MS.

Gleycielli Nonato Guató

Gleycielli Nonato Guató��é escritora, roteirista, atriz e produtora cultural indígena do povo Guató do Pantanal (MS). Pós Graduada em Artes, Literatura e Cultura. Sua produção artística atravessa a literatura, a oralidade e o audiovisual, afirmando a ancestralidade indígena, a força feminina e o território como espaço de memória e identidade. No cinema, desenvolve narrativas que evidenciam a presença indígena contemporânea, com um olhar sensível e poético sobre o Pantanal. Sua linguagem articula cotidiano, espiritualidade e tradição oral, criando obras que dialogam entre passado e presente. Seu trabalho é marcado pelo realismo poético e por uma autoria originária e decolonial. A memória viva do Pantanal e a voz feminina indígena estão no centro de sua estética, reafirmando o cinema como espaço de resistência cultural e afirmação identitária.

Susana L. M. Antunes

Susana L. M. Antunes, doutorada pela Universidade de Massachusetts, Amherst, é Professora Associada de Língua, Literatura e Culturas Lusófonas na Universidade de Wisconsin-Milwaukee, onde desempenha também as funções de coordenadora do Programa de Português. Os seus interesses de pesquisa concentram-se nas metodologias de ensino da língua portuguesa como L2, poesia contemporânea em língua portuguesa, literatura de viagem e literatura de ilhas (Ecocrítica, Geopoética) em português, francês e inglês numa perspetiva humanístico-comparada. Entre suas muitas colaborações, é investigadora no grupo de pesquisa Estudos de Paisagem nas Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa, da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil, e no centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Universidade de Lisboa, onde participa no projeto de criação de uma Enciclopédia Digital em Estudos Insulares. É também tradutora do Institut Internacional de Gépoétique, França. Autora de várias publicações sobre esses temas em revistas nacionais e internacionais e capítulos de livros.

Mark Freeland

Mark Freeland��pertence ao Clã do Urso (Bear Clan) e é membro da comunidade Bahweting, no norte de Michigan (Tribo Sault Ste. Marie do Chippewa). Obteve o título de Mestre em Teologia pela Iliff School of Theology e o doutorado em Estudos Religiosos e Teológicos pelo programa de doutorado conjunto da Iliff School of Theology e da Universidade de Denver. Sua pesquisa analisa criticamente o papel da cosmovisão indígena como componente integral das traduções culturais e linguísticas. Seu livro,��Aazheyaadizi: Visão de Mundo, Língua e as Lógicas da Descolonização, oferece uma base teórica para compreender o papel problemático que a religião continua a desempenhar nas comunidades indígenas e apela a um envolvimento mais profundo das lógicas da visão de mundo na regeneração dos modos de vida indígenas e na proteção de nossas relações com o meio ambiente.

Este evento é organizado por��dois departamentos da Universidade de Wisconsin-Milwaukee: o Centro de Estudos Latino-Americanos e do Caribe e o Instituto Electa Quinney para a Educação dos Índios Americanos.

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Dr. Robert Brenneman is Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at Goshen College, and his research focuses on the impact of violence and violent social structures on human flourishing. His book Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America (Oxford University Press 2011) takes a close-up look at the lives of sixty-three former gang members, many of whom joined an evangelical congregation as part of their attempt to extricate themselves from gang violence. Rob has provided expert witness testimony in more than a dozen asylum cases involving Central American gangs, and is widely published on matters of gangs and violence in Central America, as well as spirituality and religious architecture.

Dr. Fadeke Castor is Associate Professor of Religion and Africana Studies at Northeastern University, with research and teaching interests in religion, race, performance, and the intersectional politics of decolonization. As a Yorùba Ifá initiate of Trinidadian heritage, they are inspired by African spiritual engagements with Black liberation imaginaries and the Black radical tradition. Castor is the author of Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad (Duke University Press, 2017; Clifford Geertz Prize, 2018) and her current research explores the spiritual ontologies and epistemologies of Black Spiritual praxis as shifting our centers of being and ways of knowing towards collective care, healing, and social transformation.

Florence Goupil is a French-Peruvian documentary photographer working between ethnobotany, environmental and human rights, and the living memory of Indigenous communities. While a Pulitzer Center Rainforest Journalism grantee, she published on cultural revitalization of Indigenous knowledges that were historically suppressed by missionary efforts. She has exhibited internationally and published in The New York Times Magazine, BJP, Fisheye, Atmos, and National Geographic. Florence has received numerous awards, including POY Latam Photographer of the Year, the Magnum Foundation “Heat” Fellowship, and the Latin America Professional Award in the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards.

Dr. Sergio González is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. He is a historian of twentieth-century U.S. migration, labor, and religion, and his scholarship explores the intersections between faith and social movements as well as the development of Latino communities in the U.S. Midwest. He is author of Strangers No Longer: Latino

Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press, 2024) and co-editor of Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (New York University Press, 2022). One of his current research projects examines the history of sanctuary movements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, exploring the pivotal role religious institutions and people of faith have played in developing contemporary social movements for immigrant and refugee justice.

Dr. Gustavo Morello, SJ, is Professor of Sociology at Boston College and author of Lived Religion in Latin America: An Enchanted Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2021). As a sociologist of religion, Morello’s research focuses on practices: he studies religion as an ongoing human relation with a supra-human power, rather than focusing on institutional mandates or traditional sociological narratives of secularization or the expansion of religious markets. Morello is also author of The Catholic Church and Argentina’s Dirty War (Oxford University Press, 2015) and has studied religious expression in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile.

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Try plantain- and rice-based recipes from local Puerto Rican food truck business . We’ll learn about African influence in Latin American and Caribbean cuisines and hear from the owners about their professional journey starting a business based on their passion for food and culture.

This event is presented by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center’s Diverse Ideas talk series, in collaboration with the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Roberto Hernandez Center.

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The AADS (African and African Diaspora Studies) Seminar Series presents, with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Political Science:

Legislative Politics of Genocide Recognition: Investigating Committees on Anti-Black Violence in Brazil

Ned Littlefield, PhD, is a Visiting Scholar at 51����’s Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. He researches state violence and political identity in Brazil. Ned has published in International Affairs, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Politics in Latin America, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, as well as Handbook on Democracy and Security.

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Visit our Film Series page for full event details.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s in store!

Tuesday March 31 at 7 pm
The First Women��(�������ʰ������𾱰�����)
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Wednesday April 1 at 7 pm
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (El perro que no calla)
* Discussion afterward with 51���� Professor Tami Williams

Thursday April 2 at 7 pm
We Shall Not Be Moved (No nos moverán)
* Virtual Q&A��afterward with director Pierre Saint-Martin Castellanos��

Friday April 3 at 7 pm
Gardenia Perfume (Perfume de gardenias)
*��Discussion��afterward with��51������Professor Gilberto Blasini

Saturday April 4 at 4 pm
The Visitor (El visitante)

Saturday April 4 at 6 pm
Tiger (Tiguere)

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My experience in this conference was great; it allowed me to share Mathematics in my native language and create a new community of women who work in similar fields. From the first day, it felt safer than a mixed conference, the organization exceeded my expectations.

The researchers were truly open to answer questions, from the most basic ones to questions that could lead to new results, and no one was afraid to ask, the environment was full of empathy, genuine interest and collaboration, most of them included PhD opportunities where they work, which was a great networking opportunity. There were several student talks and a poster exhibition. After seeing many of them, I felt motivated to give a talk or show a poster next year. It was a huge learning experience, and I felt like they were holding my hand from the basics all the way through some of the toughest Mathematical ideas I have heard so far, I’m looking forward to what comes next in my academic path.

On Wednesday, there was a Colloquium, the speaker was my bachelor thesis director, a scientist I admire deeply, she just won an award in Brazil for her relevant contributions as a woman in Mathematics: here. As an alumni of the University of Chicago, and my mentor, she encouraged me to keep pursuing this dream. We shared some Midwest stories, talked about researchers at 51���� in our field and future collaboration opportunities in Mexico and in the US.

At the end of the conference, I participated in one of the outreach workshops, it was a game about turning gigantic pants inside out without lifting your feet from the floor, this has a very deep mathematical concept that can be applied by anyone without knowing they’re doing Math! This is the beauty of Topology; it is a lot of motions that do not ”break” apart. Our other game was about twisting ropes and rotating them to untie them, turns out, all these motions are a funnier way to look at the fractions we all hate in 4th grade! And applying a little bit of Knot Theory, which is the branch of which I dream of learning more. Being able to inspire future generations of female scientists was amazing.

During these days, we also had the opportunity to visit the beautiful city of Guanajuato, a very colorful colonial town on top of a mountain. Locals say its beauty inspires minds to do better Math. The impact of the CLACS award in my participation went from my discovery of the center and its mission, to the funding of the trip. Without this award I could not have attended. It also opened my mind to understand the importance of creating a Latin learning community, which was the focus of the conference. As a Latin woman in Mathematics, this undoubtedly helped me to start building what is sometimes difficult to find in the US as a minority. After hearing about CLACS, and before the conference, I started attending and getting more involved in Latin American student activities.

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Many of our CLACS affiliates took part – thanks to each of them for their contributions to our university!

35 years

Paul Brodwin (Professor, Anthropology)

25 years

Barry Cameron (Associate Professor, Geosciences)
R. John McCaw (Associate Professor, Spanish)
M. Estrella Sotomayor (Senior Teaching Faculty, Spanish)

20 years

César Ferreira (Professor, Spanish)
Renato Umali (Teaching Faculty, Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres)
Chia Vang (Professor, History; ��Vice Chancellor, Community Empowerment & Institutional Inclusivity)

15 years

Marcus B. Filippello (Associate Professor, History)
Jeffrey Sommers (Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies)

10 years

Susana Antunes (Associate Professor, Portuguese)
Kimberly Hernandez (Teaching Assistant Professor, History)
Amy Olen (Associate Professor, Translation Studies)

Five Years

Maria Gleason Maddox (Former FLAS Fellow, Portuguese)
Anjana Mudambi (Associate Professor, Communication)

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The World Languages and Cultures Speaker Series presents, with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies:

From Poetry to Protest: The Circulation of a Poetics of Justice in Mexican Women’s Writing and Activism

This talk examines how a language of justice circulates from poetic writing into activist movements and public discourse in Mexico, through an analysis of Susana Chávez Castillo’s Primera Tormenta and Arminé Arjona’s Juárez, tan lleno de sol y desolado. Drawing on Chávez Castillo’s work, initially circulated online prior to her feminicidal murder in 2011, it traces how her poetic discourse of justice—including the phrases “Ni una más” and “Ni una menos,” now central to anti-feminicidal movements—entered public and political spaces. The talk then turns to Arjona’s poetry, dedicated to the dead women of Juárez, whose dissemination through the Movimiento Acción Poética brought her work into the city streets. Together, these cases illuminate how a poetics of justice transcends traditional literary boundaries to become part of the public discourse, positioning Mexico as a generative space in which women’s writing actively shapes the language of resistance.

Dr. Diana Aldrete is Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College. Her research, pedagogy, and artistic production, interrogates the intersections of contemporary Mexican/Latin American/Latinx literary, film and cultural studies, Mexico-U.S. border studies, feminist and queer theory, environmental humanities, and Human Rights studies. She is currently working on her first monographic book project tentatively titled Between Land and Death: Women Writing for Justice in Mexico, which examines how literary production, primarily by contemporary Mexican women writers, have become part of the political dialectic on anti-feminicidal violence as they question notions of justice, and place literature in conversation with activism.

Professor Aldrete is also an abstract visual artist and writer, who often infuses literary, musical, and cultural references in her visual art and writing.

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