Ocean Val Arboniés-Flores
Doctoral Student
PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)
BA, History of the Americas, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Research focus
My research interests include histories of digital technology, science and technology studies in the Caribbean and Latin America, and feminist, Indigenous, and decolonial/anticolonial approaches to media and information technologies.
Honors and Awards
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Summer Institute on Native American Historiography, Newberry Library, 2024
FLAS Fellowship for the Study of Quechua, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023
FLAS Fellowship for the Study of Quechua, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022
ASPIRE Illinois Fellowship, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2021
Critical Language Scholarship for the Study of Portuguese, U.S. Department of State, 2020
Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative Fellowship, Columbia University, 2020
Leadership Alliance Mellon Initiative Fellowship, New York University, 2018
Advisor
Publications & Papers
Eds. Roque Salas-Rivera, Raquel Albarrán, and Ocean Val Arboniés-Flores. La piel del arrecife: Antología de poesía trans puertorriqueña. Puerto Rico: La Impresora, 2023.