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 science and technology studies in Latin America, accessibility and technology issues for marginalized communities, debates in open access, the rise of information countercultures, and the history of document reproduction technologies.
Honors and Awards
- 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