Alejandra Abad

Alejandra Abad

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2020-21
Art and Art History • Interdisciplinary Art Practices
Alejandra Abad was born in Venezuela and partially raised in Florida. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a penchant for dense, fantastical landscapes and abstract shapes. Her style is informed by her studies in architecture at Florida Atlantic University and film, video, and new media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her bachelor's of fine arts. She has participated in various shows across the...
Danielle Aguilar

Danielle Aguilar

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2022-23
School of Education
Danielle N. Aguilar grew up in Ontario, CA. Like much of the Inland Empire region, Ontario has agricultural roots, however has transitioned to an industrial and manufacturing hub in recent decades. Ontario is primarily a working class Latinx community, which has influenced Danielle's passion for community and racial justice centered research. Danielle is a first generation college student pursuing a PhD in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program. She received...
Brenda Aguirre-Ortega

Brenda Aguirre-Ortega

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2021-22
School of Education • STEM Education
Brenda Aguirre-Ortega is a PhD student in the School of Education (STEM track) at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. Her research interests are in the areas of equity in mathematics education, teacher education, and decolonial approaches of teaching and learning mathematics. Brenda was born and raised in Ecuador, she holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in chemical engineering, and has worked as an engineer, translator, and math teacher. She is also a singer-song writer and...
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Jasmine Baetz

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2018-19
Art and Art History • Ceramics
Jasmine Baetz is a Canadian-American artist, educator, and MFA student in the department of Art and Art History at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. She has a BFA in 3D Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto. Her studio practice involves an ongoing material and theoretical critique of "American ceramics." Baetz is interested in working with communities to interrogate their...
Cali Banks

Cali Banks

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2020-21
Art and Art History • IMAP-Photography
Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Cali Banks holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in art and technology and global health studies from Allegheny College. She is currently a master鈥檚 of fine arts candidate in interdisciplinary media arts practices in the art and art history department. Banks explores the complexities of the female body and experience through photography, videography, performance, and new media. Working within the realm of public versus private...
Kimberley Bianca

Kimberly Bianca

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2020-21 • Art + Science + Action Cohort 2021-22
Critical Media Practices
Kimberley Bianca creates participatory media art, organizes community events and researches technology production. She is interested in how social peer-to-peer processes can encourage creatives to manage resources based on trust and cooperation. Kimberley is a first-year doctoral student in emergent technologies and media arts practices, where she is investigating how media arts practices can challenge systemic issues of e-waste. In 2019, she completed her master's thesis 鈥淚nnovating Electrofringe: A Distributed...
Hannah Blannin-Leloup

Hannah Blanning-Leloup

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2022-23
English
Hannah Blanning-Leloup is a second-year PhD student in the English department specializing in British and French Romantic literature. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, she lived and taught bilingual students in France while coordinating middle school and college English programs. She holds a BA of Humanities and an MA of Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado along with an MA of British Literature from the Universit茅 de Paris Ouest...
Allyson Burbeck

Allyson Burbeck

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2019-20
Art and Art History
Allyson Burbeck is an art historian and MA student in the Department of Art and Art History at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. She received her BA in Art History and her BS in Strategic Communication from Texas Christian University. Burbeck studies contemporary graffiti and street art with a focus on bringing women graffiti artists into the scholarly discourse. She is also interested in the Chicanx mural movement and the community mural movement...
Erica Caasi

Erica Caasi

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2021-22
School of Education • Literacy Studies
Born and raised in the Bay Area, California, Erica Caasi is a PhD candidate in the School of Education with an emphasis in curriculum and instruction in literacy and teacher learning research practice (TLRP). Her work focuses on bringing a critical embodiment approach and critical literacy lens to understanding the intersections of gender, race, sport, and children鈥檚 texts. She is working to develop alternative spaces for adolescent girls to have...
Franklin Chilaka

Franklin Chilaka

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2022-23
School of Education
Franklin Chilaka is a first generation, first-year doctoral student in the Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice (EFPP) Ph.D. program in the School of Education at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. His research interest examines the relationship between holistic mentorship and Black LGBTQ men's self-efficacy and persistence in higher education. His motivation for this work comes from his own intersectional experiences in school settings and navigating spaces that seem to alienate...
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Dennis Doyle

Colorado Art Science Environment Fellow 2022-23 • Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2022-23
CASE Artist • Art Practices • Sculpture and Post Studio Practice
Dennis Doyle is an interdisciplinary researcher exploring queer ecologies of waste, atmospheric chemistry, and multi-sensory installation. Their work has been exhibited around the country, including Pittsburgh, Tennessee, and Colorado. They have been nationally recognized for their scholarly work, including the Beinecke Scholarship and scientific publications such as Nanophotonics and ACS Optics. A Pittsburgh native, they completed a BA in Studio Arts and BS in Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh...
Iv谩n-Daniel Espinosa

Iv谩n-Daniel Espinosa

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
Theatre & Dance
Iv谩n-Daniel Espinosa is a dance choreographer and interdisciplinary scholar that writes about and creates work engaged with mycelium fungi networks, climate change and interspecies performance. He is a current PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, and also has a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from New York University (NYU)'s Tisch School of the Arts. Primarily inspired by Indigenous environmental philosophy and Eco-Feminism, Iv谩n-Daniel's artwork explores...
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Elana Lev Friedland

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2018-19
English • Program in Jewish Studies
Elana Lev Friedland is a writer, theatre maker and educator currently based in the English department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are affiliated with 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录's Creative Writing MFA and Jewish Studies programs. Friedland received their BA In English and Theater Arts from Brandeis University. Their work focuses on the ways technology can be integrated into storytelling on the page and on stage, bringing ancient traditions into...
Karla Garcia Trujillo

N. Karla G. Trujillo

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
Learning Sciences and Human Development
N. Karla G. Trujillo is a PhD student in the Learning Sciences and Human Development program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Trujillo holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a successful action media specialist, community artist, activist, dancer and co-creator. She concentrates on capturing energy, in movement, using various media that include photography, video and sound recordings. She has several years of...
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Juan Garc铆a Oyervides

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2019-20
Spanish and Portuguese
Juan Garc铆a Oyervides is a PhD candidate in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. He studies Mexican and Latin American journalistic practices and their cultural influences in the region. He obtained a BA in Literature and Language at Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile. He's interested in independent publishing practices, and community-based knowledge production/distribution networks. Students in the Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars program participate in the...
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Amy Hoagland

Colorado Art Science Environment Fellow 2022-23 • Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2022-23 • Art + Science + Action Cohort 2021-22
CASE Artist • 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录 MFA 2022 • City of Boulder Office of Arts and Culture
Amy Hoagland (she, her) creates sculptural installations about the human relationship within nature. She received her BFA from the University of Kentucky in 2016 and her MFA in Sculpture from University of Colorado, Boulder in 2022. Amy is a recipient of a 2022 Windgate Fellowship for sustainable art presented by Honoring the Future. She has completed residencies with the Mountain Research Station in Nederland, CO, Marpha Foundation in Marpha, Nepal,...
Brittney Hofer

Brittney Hofer

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2019-20
Art and Art History
Brittney Hofer is a second year MFA candidate in Sculpture and Post Studio Practices at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. She received her BFA at the University of Montana Missoula in 2016, with a focus in sculpture and a minor in Art History. Her interdisciplinary work looks at the sensory and cultural ways humans interact with the land and components of exchange within this relationship. Hofer uses the body as...
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Jason Hogstadt

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2018-19
History
Jason Hogstad is a PhD student in the History Department at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, where he studies the environmental history of the U.S. West. His academic work focuses on the environmental aspects of the urban/rural divide 鈥 which means he spends much of his time trying to understand how and why westerners in cities and in the country have argued about pest control strategies ranging from ritual rabbit...
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Fernanda Iwasaki

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2018-19
Spanish and Portuguese
Fernanda Iwasaki is a PhD student at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, where she studies contemporary Latin American literature. Her research focuses on the short-story genre and the power of storytelling for fighting oppression or offering nontraditional perspectives of reality. Iwasaki is originally from Lima, Peru and was raised in Spain. Besides her training as a researcher and educator, Iwasaki also holds a BFA in Theater and works as a creative writer. She...
Dawn Jacob

Dawn Jacob

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2021-22
Philosophy
Dawn Jacob is a doctoral student in the Philosophy Department at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, where she studies ancient Greek philosophy with a focus on ethics. She is primarily interested in understanding the place of pleasure, desire, and knowledge in the virtuous and happy human life, and she finds that ancient thought provides a point of view that is fascinatingly both familiar and strange. Before coming to graduate school, Dawn worked in...
Maggie McNulty

Maggie McNulty

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
History
Maggie L. McNulty is a PhD student in the History Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. McNulty holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Environmental Studies and Sustainability from Drexel University and a master鈥檚 degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests explore the intersection of American environmental history and environmental justice by conducting oral histories. She uses storytelling as a method in which to examine the...
Asa Mease

Asa Mease

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
Art and Art History • Sculpture and Post-Studio Practices
Originally from Williston, Vermont, Asa Mease received his BA in studio art and biology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He has exhibited work throughout the Pacific Northwest, including Oregon Contemporary, SATOR projects, 1122 Outside, Carnation Contemporary, and Pendleton Center for the Arts. In 2019 he participated in the Glean Portland Residency through the municipal dump. Asa is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture and Post-Studio Practice from the...
Jesus Munoz

Jesus Munoz

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2021-22
Theatre & Dance
Jesus Munoz is a dancer, maker, teacher, percussionist and collaborator originally from Mexico. His training lies in Cuban Contemporary, Afro-Cuban, Cuban Folkloric, Cuban Popular Dances, Ballet, Modern, Jazz and Latin Percussion. He received a B.F.A in Dance Performance (Ballet, Modern and Jazz emphasis) at the University of Central Oklahoma. As a solo Latin artist, he has taught and performed around the United Sates in cities such as New York, L.A.,...
Idowu Odeyemi

Idowu Odeyemi

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
Philosophy
Idowu Odeyemi is a philosophy Ph.D. Student at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. His theoretical works are interdisciplinary, mostly drawing from social and political philosophy, applied epistemology, and moral philosophy. Before coming to Boulder, Idowu completed a B.A. in Philosophy at Ekiti State University, Nigeria in 2021. In the summer of 2023, he will be attending the Open Student Workshop at the University of Oxford. Some awards that Idowu has...
Chu May Paing

Chu May Paing

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2020-21
Anthropology
Born and raised in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), Chu May Paing is an activist, feminist, native-ethnographer, a first-generation American citizen, and a visual anthropologist-in-training. Paing is interested in the circulation and (re)mediation of semiotic culture (how cultural signs and symbols work in a society) in contemporary Myanmar. Her previous training in sociocultural linguistics implements her broader theoretical and methodological research interests in semiotics, affect, aesthetics and modernity and how they are...
Anum Qadir

Anum Qadir

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2022-23
School of Education • MAHE Program
Anum Qadir is a first-generation graduate student at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, pursuing a Masters in Higher Education. She has been working in academic advising and coaching for the last 9 years. Her current aim is to learn how to bridge the gap between what she learns at work, what she learns in the classroom, and what she learns from practical application and others' lived experiences. Social justice, artful expression, and making...
Jer贸nimo Reyes-Retana

Jer贸nimo Reyes-Retana

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2023-24
Critical Media Practices • Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practices
Jer贸nimo Reyes-Retana (b. Mexico City) is an artist and researcher with a particular interest in delving into the political implications of sound, which he articulates with different computer-based processes, sculpture components, and a variety of media. Through speculative futurities often materialized in the form of installation, Reyes-Retana's body of work navigates the intersections between notions related to technological innovation, trans-territoriality, corporate colonialism and resilient ways of approaching the realm of...
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Jashodhara Sen

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2018-19
Theatre & Dance
A native of Kolkata, India, Jashodhara Sen is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, and a 2017鈥18 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Fellow. She earned her MA in Theatre Arts and MA in Theatre (Directing Emphasis) from Mumbai University and Oklahoma State University respectively. As a community-based artist and applied theatre practitioner, Sen's goal is to create a democratic and encouraging space...
Mackenzie Suess

Mackenzie Suess

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2019-20
English
Mackenzie Suess鈥 writing and teaching is concerned with geographic place, magic, the body, and our relationships to all three. She explores these intersections through 鈥減op鈥 genres like fantasy and horror, as well as mythology and fairytales, which means her work often involves literal transformations from human into animal, river, ghost, or other non-human beings. For Suess, writing into monsters and magic opens up language for the seemingly 鈥渋mpossible鈥 experience of...
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Julia Uhr

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2018-19
Philosophy
Julia Uhr is an attorney, computer programmer and PhD candidate in philosophy at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录, where she specializes in technoethics, or the intersection of law, technology, and philosophy. She is interested in helping communities solve problems creatively using technology. Students in the Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars program participate in the development of a community-engaged scholarship "partner" project. Below, please read about Uhr's project and...
Amanda Rose

Amanda Rose Villarreal

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2019-20
Theatre & Dance
Amanda Rose Villarreal is a third-year Devaney Fellow pursuing her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies. She studies the intersection of immersive theatre and applied theatre, with a focus on consent and agency. Villarreal has spent 12 years creating immersive performances that hinge upon crafting interactive experiences that invite audience participants to engage with the performance in various ways, impacting the storyline along with the performers. She has used immersive...
Lydia Wagenknecht

Lydia Wagenknecht

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2021-22
Musicology
Lydia Wagenknecht is a PhD pre-candidate in ethnomusicology at the 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. Her research interests include German-Chilean musical interactions in the 20th century through the present. She is also interested in vocalities present in video and music streaming platforms. Most recently, her paper on destabilized voice in Luis Advis鈥 "Cantata Santa Mar铆a de Iquique" was awarded the Joann W. Kealiinohomoku Award for Excellence for the 2020 Rocky Mountain...
Alexander Williams

Alexander Williams

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2020-21
English
Born and raised in California, Alexander Williams obtained his bachelor鈥檚 degree in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz before becoming a master鈥檚 candidate of literature at 澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录. Williams鈥 pedagogy and writing strengthens the assertion that life is art. Creatively, he explores this assertion through haunted poetry and the archetype of the black male rapper. Because the persona created by the black male rapper in the United States...
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K. Woodzick

Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholar 2019-20
Theatre & Dance
Woodzick is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies. They hold an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. Their work focuses on empowering members of the LGBTQIA+ community to create their own narratives. In 2018, they founded the Non-Binary Monologues Project, which features monologues written by and for non-binary, transgender and gender non-conforming artists. Woodzick is using this cohort and program as an opportunity to continue to explore...