Maria Jose Gutierrez

María José is a transdisciplinary humanities scholar working at the intersection of Latinx Studies, Latin American Studies and critical migration, and border studies. Her research examines migrant culture particularly in the Andes region and Latinx U.S as an avenue to investigate migrant’s interactions with state-power, border regimes, and transnational kinship communities by way of embodiment and emotions. She collaborates in public humanities initiatives such as: the media collective Corredores Migratorios  in Ecuador that promotes journalism committed with migrant justice and the public digital archive Humanizing Deportation that gathers self-authored testimonials of Latin American migrants.