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Michelle Gil was a 2024-2025 Undergraduate LSP Student Ambassador. During that year, she was currently a Senior at UNC, double majoring in Biology and Medical Anthropology with the Latina/o Studies Minor. She was on a pre-med track, and hopes to … Read more

Anne Dancausse (she/her) was a 2024-2025 Undergraduate LSP Student Ambassador. She is a UNC undergraduate student studying Human Development and Family Sciences with a double minor in Latinx and Sexuality Studies. Originally from Charlotte, NC, she is a second-generation Cuban … Read more

Abelardo de la Cruz is macehualli, a Nahuatl native speaker, and an ixtlamatquetl, a Nahua scholar from Chicontepec, in the Huasteca Veracruzana, Mexico. He is an Assistant Professor of Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at … Read more

Martín Wannam (b. 1992) is a Guatemalan visual artist and educator whose work offers a critical exploration of his homeland’s historical, social, and political landscape. With an equatorial perspective that intersects brownness and wildness, Wannam’s iconoclastic and maximalist approach challenges … Read more

Thomas Eric Simonson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their research focuses primarily upon early modern literature, especially works engaging with concepts of cosmology at the intersection … Read more

Krista Telford is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill studying English Literature. She specializes in medieval literature and is particularly focused on religious texts. Her research examines prayer and depictions of the afterlife in medieval … Read more

Marcy Pedzwater is an Instructional Designer at Vanderbilt University. With over five years of experience teaching and working in higher education, Marcy is passionate about creating and supporting high-quality learning experiences for students. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, she worked for … Read more

René Marzuk is a graduate student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. His research examines the literary enactment and construction of transnational identities in Latina/a/o/x and U.S. literatures of the 19th century, with a complementary interest in the cultural … Read more

Ryan Carroll is a PhD student in English and Comparative Literature and a Program Assistant with the Latina/o Studies Program. He researches nineteenth-century information culture and literary theory.

Rose Steptoe is a Ph.D. candidate, teaching fellow, and film scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the intersection of feminist authorship and cinematic depictions of … Read more