HONORS & AWARDS
Poetry Fellow, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA).
2025
Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate and Professional Degree Programs, Cornell University.
2024
Mellon Scholar-in-Residence , Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.
2023- 2024
Faculty Champion Award-Junior Faculty, Graduate School Office of Inclusion & Student Engagement and the Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council, Cornell University.
2023
The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award (English), Latino Book Awards.
2022
Honorable Mention, Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards.
2022
Finalist, The Barnard Hewitt Book Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research.
2022
Mellon/HIDVL Scholar in Residence , Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University, New York, NY.
2022
Career Enhancement Junior Faculty Fellow, Institute for Citizens & Scholars (*formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation).
2019
Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Seminar, “Lived Worlds and Possible Futures,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2014- 2015
Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Latina/Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il.
2013- 2014
Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellow, Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities on Cultural Expressivity and Performance. Centro Regiónal de Investigaciónes Multidisciplinarias. Morelos, México.