I: Latino Organizations and American Democracy: Mapping the Latino Civic Infrastructure

Source: SNF Agora Institute

Our community-academia-practitioner research collective (the Latinx Organizational Archives Project and the Latino Landscapes Project) is mapping the historical development of Latino organizational capacity across all U.S. states and the current activation of organizations in response to targeted exclusion.

II: Externalization and the American Bureaucracy

Source: Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant

What role does the bureaucracy play in pushing out U.S. immigration and border enforcement beyond borders? The Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant is supporting my examination of the American bureaucracy and the externalization of U.S. immigration and border enforcement.

III: Border Bureaucracies and Big Data

Source: New Perspectives in American Governance Grant

What institutional transformations are border agencies undergoing in an era of big data and salient border politics and what are the consequences for interstate conflict? The New Perspectives in American Governance Grant supported my collaborative work with Isabella Bellezza-Smull and Ricardo Romero to examine data as border work, the rise of tech firms, and the new geopolitics of border control.

IV: Latinx Organizational Ecosystems

Source: JP Morgan Chase & Co Grant

What is the health of Latinx civil society across the United States in an era of compounded crises? This JPMorgan Chase & Co grant supported a Latinx-research team as we examined the presence, work, and influence of Latino organizations across the United States.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships

Russell Sage Foundation RSF) Dissertation Grants

Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) Pipeline Grants