Collaborative Research Fellows

Javier Arbona-Homar

Assistant Professor, American Studies

Javier Arbona-Homar is leading the research project Monumental Disappearance, which studies the complexity of political power by how landmarks and memorials are desecrated or elevated and protected. Puerto Rico, for example, has seen the dismantling of the national archives and Instituto de Cultura but the active preservation of the colonial architecture and walls that surround Old San Juan.

The Network Collaboration Fellowship will support Arbona-Homar’s travel to Puerto Rico to collaborate with Rafael Capó García and the Memoria (De)Colonial Collective, a non-profit organization that critically examines the legacies of colonialism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean through public and digital humanities initiatives. Arbona-Homar and Capó García would visit under- or un-documented sites of memory and include them in Memoria (De)Colonial’s growing archives.

Marian Schlotterbeck

Associate Professor, Department of History

Marian Schlotterbeck is working on a project that takes another look at Latin America during the 1980s, which has been thought of as the “lost decade.” Research on this period has seen limited peer-reviewed publications. However, what happened in the 1980s, after the end of the Cold War, continues to define our world today.

The Network Collaboration Fellowship will support the development and publication of a special issue on “Latin America in the 1980s” with the Journal of Latin American Studies published by Cambridge University Press. The funding will help Schlotterbeck to organize a two-day workshop at UC Davis for intensive peer-review feedback and drafting with contributors Elizabeth Schwall, an assistant professor of history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennifer Adair, an associate professor of history at Fairfield University.