I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in the Rhetoric and Composition Program at The University of Texas at El Paso. As a Mellon Research Scholar, I contribute to Latinx Sound Cultures Studies under the leadership of Dr. Inés Casillas (UCSB), Dr. Esther Diaz Martin (UIC), and Dr. Sara Hinojos (CUNY). This is a research group in the Crossing Latinidades Humanities Initiative program at the University of Illinois at Chicago funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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I'm a Mexican Latino born and raised on the border between Juárez-El Paso. My interest as a researcher focuses on Sound Studies, and the intersections between soundscapes, philosophy, and Cultural and Latino Studies from a disciplinary posture of Rhetoric. To inquire about the social dynamic and symbolic constructions that result from cultural-aesthetic exchanges in the border Latino community, I investigate the socio-cultural border phenomenon through sound studies and its contribution to the region's historical heritage.