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Skateboarding culture, youth studies, photography histories and discourse, cinema studies and psychoanalysis
Youth cultural studies, American visual culture, Latinx studies, cinema studies, skateboarding culture, activist art, artists: Norma Ibarra, Larry Clark, Petra Collins, Nan Goldin
Histories of Photography
2025 Lionel Cantú Memorial Award, Dolores Huerta Research Center, UCSC
2025 Visual Studies Travel Grant, UCSC
2024 Visual Studies Travel Grant, UCSC
2023 Judith K. Reed Award, U. Maryland
2022 Honors Grant Award, U. Maryland
2022 Sandler Award, U. Maryland
Nov. 2022 "Look!" Collage, Momentum, Maril Gallery, College Park, MD
“Wassup Rockers (2006) and the Geopolitics of Style: Reading Youth Culture through LA’s Urban Transformation,” Guest Lecture, HAVC 143D: Architecture and the City in Modern & Contemporary Visual Culture, Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC, July 2025.
“Youth Fashion in Wassup Rockers (2006): Insights into Larry Clark’s box office flop and the geopolitical history of South Los Angeles,” Guest Lecture, LIT 80H: The Politics of Style, Department of Literature, UCSC, February 2025.
“Mark Gonzales: The Vitruvian Man.” Honors Symposium. Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. May 3, 2023
