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Social Sciences Division
Latin American & Latino Studies
Ph.D. Student
Graduate
Crown College Faculty Wing
211
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
Edward is a Ph.D. student in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department. He holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a master's degree in Cultural Studies.
His research in critical fashion studies focuses on power, coloniality, race, whiteness, popular aesthetics, archives, and visual Latinx and Latin American cultures from a perspective that questions and decenters fashion narratives and history.
His doctoral project examines the Latin(x) American Fashion Archives within hegemonic cultural institutions, as well as in counter-practices of gathering, collecting, and exhibiting. His project delves into the intricacies and political dynamics of fashion archives and their intersections with race, class, resistance, and meaning-making. Furthermore, his work proposes a hemispheric perspective as a scholarly approach to decolonial fashion thought in practice.
Co-Principal Investigator, Expanding Latinx Studies at and beyond UC Santa Cruz, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2023-24)
Summer Publishing Fellowship, UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative - (Summer 2023)
Dean's Travel Grant, UCSC - (Spring 2023)
UCHRI Multicampus Graduate Working Groups Fellowship - (2023/24)
Chancellor's Fellowship - University of California, Santa Cruz (2022/23)
Research Scholarship in Photographic Patrimony, Ministry of Culture, Colombia (2016-2017)
Master's Excellence Scholarship - Los Andes University, Colombia (2011-2012)
New Generation Young Research, Ministry of Science, Colombia (2011-2012)
Best Sociological Bachelor Dissertation Award, National University of Colombia (2010)
Essays
- Colonial Legacies: The Met Museum and the Absence of Latinx Designers in Fashion Archives. The Latinx Project, 2024
- Streets are Dangerously Creative. El Malpensante, 2023.
Books
- Estudios de la moda en Colombia. Recorridos de una pregunta en construcción (Ed), 2022
- Nostalgias y aspiraciones. Vestir, estéticas y tránsitos de las clases medias bogotanas en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, 2021
Academic Journal
- ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today. Fashion Theory, 2023.
- Beauty has no age anymore: Fashion and youth in Colombia (1970‐99). International Journal of Fashion Studies, 2021.
- La ligereza como nueva forma de vida: entrevista con Gilles Lipovetsky para un análisis del presente. Hallazgos en Ciencias Sociales, 2020.
- Estéticas en plural. La moda popular en Bogotá. Cuadernos de Antropología Universidad de Costa Rica, 2016.
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