Arts Division
Graduate Student
Graduate
Music Center
I am a PhD Candidate in Music focusing on the instrument-making practice in Southern Veracruz related to Son Jarocho and the maintenance of cultural knowledge through musical practice and traditional craft in the face of environmental degraddation and economic shift due to major infrastructural development in the southern regions of Mexico and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
I specialize in folk fiddle music of Ireland and the celtic diaspora, and instruments related to the genre of Son Jarocho including jarana and requinto.
Latin American and Latino Studies, Ethnomusicology, Indigenous Feminism, Conviviality, Cosmopolitanism, Subaltern Studies, Historical Materialism, Colonialism/ Neo-Colonialism.
Music of Latin America
Music of the British Isles and British Post-Colonies
Frederick R. Selch Award, American Musical Instrument Society
For best student presentation at the annual AMIS meetings. Amount: $250.
Small Research Gratn, American Musical Instrument Society
For student research regarding musical instruments. Amount: $500.
Anne Dhu McLucas Fellowship, Society for American Music.
For graduate students pursuing research on traditional music or Native/ First Nations music. Amount: $1,000.
STARS Re-Entry Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz Community Connections
In support of the academic progress of re-entering students. Amount: $1,500
Regents Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
First year of tuition remised plus a first-year stipend of $23,671. Total award value: $43,000
Student Forum of Ethnomusicology, University of Veracruz, Paper Presentation 2025
“The Jarana as Baroque Guitar: A Neocolonial Claiming of Jarocho Instrument Traditions and a Challenge to the Material Conditions for Convivencia.”
American Folklore Society, Paper Presentation 2024
“The Jarana as Baroque Guitar: A Neocolonial Claiming of Jarocho Instrument Traditions and a Challenge to the Material Conditions for Convivencia.”
American Musical Instrument Society, Paper Presentation 2023
“The Jarana as Baroque Guitar: A Neocolonial Claiming of Jarocho Instrument-Making Traditions”
