Research

My research focuses on Central American and Indigenous experiences, with a particular emphasis on the migration narratives of Guatemalan Maya communities. It emerges from my effort to bridge the fields of Critical Indigenous Studies and Latinx Studies, driven by a desire to understand how the Guatemalan Maya diaspora navigates their complex relationship to Land while simultaneously contending with the dislocation and hypermobility imposed by settler violence. As I conducted this research amid an era of escalating deportations, I began to recognize the urgent need to explore not only the trauma of displacement, but also the role of joy and communal belonging—forces that, I believe, empower us to reject the shallow promises of settler multiculturalism and carve out our own spaces of resistance and solidarity.

Articles and Book Chapters

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