2018-2019: Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut To aid emerging fellows, UCHI offers, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of The Graduate School, a residential graduate dissertation fellowship. Graduate Humanities Scholars receive a full research assistantship…
The dismantling of neoliberalism could create a bridge between workers, writers, labor and justice activists, environmentalists, and scholars. The efforts could lead to new lobbying groups and policy proposals just as the dismantling of the New Deal and Great Society spawned neoliberalism. Two problems…
2017 June: Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference (LAWCHA), University of Washington, Seattle Presented my paper, “Working the Exemptions: Puerto Rican Needleworkers, Pliable Citizenship, and a Scaffolding for Neoliberalism.” An outstanding event that brought together scholars from wide-ranging fields, union leaders, worker activists, and adjunct/contingent…
2017: Covenant Insurance Company Summer Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UConn Funds for CLAS graduate students who demonstrate past academic achievement and the potential for future academic and professional accomplishments.
WINNER * Outstanding Paper Prize “Experiments in Citizenship, Migration, and Labor Recruitment: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and a Deep History of Neoliberalism” Mobility & Marginalization, Graduate History Conference, UMass Amherst, March 2017
2017 November: Humanities in Action Panel, National Humanities Conference, Boston The second in a series of three joint national panels that will bring the humanities community together as whole to consider how, by leveraging our strengths, we can achieve broader public impact and showcase the…