External:
2024 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Scholar, Summer Institute: Health Humanities:
Dismantling Structural Injustice in Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine.
April 30-October 12, 2024.
2023-2024 Co-PI, CU-Boulder Research & Innovation SEED Grant Program, in partnership with Marquette University and
the University of Konstanz (Germany), 18-month international Indigenous film festival and research group
Project: "Global Indigeneity and Land Struggle: Documentary Film for Sustainable Futures" $74,829
2023 Colby Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities (External Applicant Pool), Colby College, August 2023
2023 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Scholarship, University of Victoria, June 2023.
2018 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Scholar, Summer Institute: Digital Technologies in
Theatre and Performance Studies. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. June 17-29, 2018.
2010-2011 FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) Fellowship, Kaqchikel Maya. 2010-2011.
2010 FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) Fellowship, Kaqchikel Maya, study in Oxlajuj Aj, Kaqchikel Mayan Six-
Week Summer Program in Guatemala, Tulane University. Summer 2010.
2010 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant. Summer 2010.
Project Title: “Ri ak’wala’ nikib’ixaj kik’aslen: (Re)negotiating the Politics of Orality in the Written and Oral
Performances of Kaqchikel Children’s Songs”
2007. Mellon Conference Travel Grant. The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and
Duke University, September 2007.
Internal:
Colby College:
2024 PHIL (Public Humanities Inquiry Lab) Faculty Grant, $1500
Critical Medical Humanities: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Medicine, Conference Travel Funds
Project: Uk'u'x kaj, uk'u'x ulew: Una aproximación ecofeminista a la explotación capitalista y la precariedad
médica en Ixcanul (2015)
2023-2024 McFadden Grant, $3000
Project: Indigenous Language Translation Support (Kaqchikel Maya-English) for Kemtzij: Weaving Reciprocal
Indigenous Ontologies in Kaqchikel Maya Arts
2023 Global Lab Exploratory Travel Fund Award (Guatemala), Spring 2023, $4800
Office of Global Engagement and DavisConnects
Course: Health Care in Indigenous Guatemala (Civic Engagement Applied Humanities & Beginner Kaqchikel
Maya Language Course)
2021-2022 Research Grant, Humanities Division, AY 2021-2022.
Project Title: The Art of Speaking Writing: (Re)Mediating Guatemalan Maya Voices in the 21st Century.
2021-2022 Global Engagement Course Development Grant, Provost Office and DavisConnects.
SP343A: Indigenous Textualities, Decoloniality, and Land Sovereignty
Clemson University:
2020 Clemson SEED (Support for Early Exploration and Development), Tier One Completion Grant (declined)
Project Title: The Art of Speaking Writing: (Re)Mediating Guatemalan Maya Voices in the 21st Century.
2020 Humanities Hub, Faculty Fellowship (declined)
Project Title: The Art of Speaking Writing: (Re)Mediating Guatemalan Maya Voices in the 21st Century.
Faculty Research Grant, Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP).
2017-2018 Lightsey Faculty Fellow, College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities (CAAH). AY 2017-2018.
Project Title: “Ri akwala’ nikib’ixaj pa qach’ab’äl: (Re)negotiating the Politics of Orality and Ethnography in
Performances of Kaqchikel Children’s Songs and Poetry”
2015 Individual Grant, Humanities Advancement Board. Clemson University. Summer 2015
Faculty Research Fellowship (Competitive Course Releases), FRDP. AY 2015-2016, AY 2016-2017.
2024 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Scholar, Summer Institute: Health Humanities:
Dismantling Structural Injustice in Healthcare, Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine.
April 30-October 12, 2024.
2023-2024 Co-PI, CU-Boulder Research & Innovation SEED Grant Program, in partnership with Marquette University and
the University of Konstanz (Germany), 18-month international Indigenous film festival and research group
Project: "Global Indigeneity and Land Struggle: Documentary Film for Sustainable Futures" $74,829
2023 Colby Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities (External Applicant Pool), Colby College, August 2023
2023 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Scholarship, University of Victoria, June 2023.
2018 NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Scholar, Summer Institute: Digital Technologies in
Theatre and Performance Studies. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. June 17-29, 2018.
2010-2011 FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) Fellowship, Kaqchikel Maya. 2010-2011.
2010 FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) Fellowship, Kaqchikel Maya, study in Oxlajuj Aj, Kaqchikel Mayan Six-
Week Summer Program in Guatemala, Tulane University. Summer 2010.
2010 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant. Summer 2010.
Project Title: “Ri ak’wala’ nikib’ixaj kik’aslen: (Re)negotiating the Politics of Orality in the Written and Oral
Performances of Kaqchikel Children’s Songs”
2007. Mellon Conference Travel Grant. The Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and
Duke University, September 2007.
Internal:
Colby College:
2024 PHIL (Public Humanities Inquiry Lab) Faculty Grant, $1500
Critical Medical Humanities: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Medicine, Conference Travel Funds
Project: Uk'u'x kaj, uk'u'x ulew: Una aproximación ecofeminista a la explotación capitalista y la precariedad
médica en Ixcanul (2015)
2023-2024 McFadden Grant, $3000
Project: Indigenous Language Translation Support (Kaqchikel Maya-English) for Kemtzij: Weaving Reciprocal
Indigenous Ontologies in Kaqchikel Maya Arts
2023 Global Lab Exploratory Travel Fund Award (Guatemala), Spring 2023, $4800
Office of Global Engagement and DavisConnects
Course: Health Care in Indigenous Guatemala (Civic Engagement Applied Humanities & Beginner Kaqchikel
Maya Language Course)
2021-2022 Research Grant, Humanities Division, AY 2021-2022.
Project Title: The Art of Speaking Writing: (Re)Mediating Guatemalan Maya Voices in the 21st Century.
2021-2022 Global Engagement Course Development Grant, Provost Office and DavisConnects.
SP343A: Indigenous Textualities, Decoloniality, and Land Sovereignty
Clemson University:
2020 Clemson SEED (Support for Early Exploration and Development), Tier One Completion Grant (declined)
Project Title: The Art of Speaking Writing: (Re)Mediating Guatemalan Maya Voices in the 21st Century.
2020 Humanities Hub, Faculty Fellowship (declined)
Project Title: The Art of Speaking Writing: (Re)Mediating Guatemalan Maya Voices in the 21st Century.
Faculty Research Grant, Faculty Research Development Program (FRDP).
- AY 2018-2019, Project Title: “Ri taq wuj kichin ri tz’ibanela’ kaqchikela’: Pan-Maya Activism and the Accessibility of Kaqchikel Maya-Authored Publications and the Neoliberal Book Market in Guatemala”
- AY 2017-2018, Project Title: “Ri taq tzij richin ri aq’om kichin ri ixoqi’: A Trilingual Digital Women’s Health Medical Dictionary in Kaqchikel Maya, Spanish, and English”
- AY 2016-2017, Project Title: “Tzotzil Maya (Net)working: The Politics of Collaboration in Taller Leñateros’s Artists’ Books and Facebook Account in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico”
- AY 2015-2016, Project Title: “Ri ak'wala’ nikib’ixaj pa qach’ab’äl: (Re)negotiating the Politics of Orality in Kaqchikel Children’s Songs and Poetry”
2017-2018 Lightsey Faculty Fellow, College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities (CAAH). AY 2017-2018.
Project Title: “Ri akwala’ nikib’ixaj pa qach’ab’äl: (Re)negotiating the Politics of Orality and Ethnography in
Performances of Kaqchikel Children’s Songs and Poetry”
2015 Individual Grant, Humanities Advancement Board. Clemson University. Summer 2015
Faculty Research Fellowship (Competitive Course Releases), FRDP. AY 2015-2016, AY 2016-2017.