Embodying SIGuache from a Border(lands) Lens: Archiving Transborder Newspapers through Digital Cartography

Maira E. Álvarez is a Provost’s Early Career Fellow in Borderlands History in the Department of History, University of Texas, Austin. Her expertise lies in Latinx/Latin American literature, transborder studies, women’s studies, heritage language, public history, and public digital humanities. Her ongoing research delves into the militarization of the US-Mexico border, with a particular focus on systemic racism. Álvarez actively engages in digital initiatives aimed at enhancing public access to archival materials, bridging technology with scholarly research.

Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla is assistant professor in public and digital humanities, Latinxborder literature and culture, and Spanish as a heritage language at the University of Texas, San Antonio. As a transborder interdisciplinary scholar, her research, teaching, and service lie at the intersection of digital and public humanities analysis and the design and development of scholarship and creative work centered in US-Mexico and transnational Latinx literature, archives, languages and cultures. She edited “Borderlands Digital Humanities” (2020), a bilingual special issue of the online journal Reviews in DH.