Fellows

BSP Faculty Fellows (2025-2026)

Monika Gosin

Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

My research will examine how Afro-descendant migrants navigate US/Mexico borderlands contexts, taking a close look at how they experience and contest systemic forms of antiblack racism that circulate in Mexico and throughout the hemisphere. The analysis will also investigate the possible emergence of new levels of critical Black consciousness that connect Afro-Latinx and other Afro-diasporic migrants in Mexico with Afro Mexicans, and with US Afro-Latinxs.
Jorge Sánchez Cruz

Assistant Professor, Department of Literature

Jorge Sánchez is a native of the Central Valleys (dixzhá) of Oaxaca (binnizá) working on the aesthetic and theoretical re-mattering of Black travesti life with the support of the BSP Fellowship.

Tirrezz Hudson

Department of Ethnic Studies, PhD Candidate

Tirrezz Hudson (she/they) is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Ethnic Studies, with specializations in Critical Gender Studies and Student-Centered College Teaching. Her project uses Black spirituality and queer (and trans) studies to critically-carefully explore memories and media representations of Black queer boyhood, in order to gently listen to the melodies made by silenced voices.
Abner Francisco Sótenos

Department of History, PhD Candidate

Monique Dixon

Department of Literature, PhD Candidate

BSP Pre Doctoral Fellow Monique Dixon is a Doctoral candidate in Literature. Her dissertation analyzes works of speculative fiction and considers how Black authors extrapolate from the past and present to speculate about alternative realities.