As a Nuevomexicana professor who studies New Mexico, the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) has enabled my research aims across projects and teaching. My research focuses on the cultural and literary expressions of the Indo-Hispano people of New Mexico from the perspective of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, examining over four centuries of self-expression and historical contextualization that is primarily expressed in New Mexican or Mexican Spanish dialect. These pathways align with the CRS mission to foster "the work of the university through student fellowships, faculty research, program funding, digital media and other projects with a particular emphasis on activities that increase our understanding of New Mexico and the Southwest." Support from the CRS has sustained my advancement of the study of Nuevomexicano literature and culture in its full complexity and regional specificity in published scholarship and community-engaged research.
