Ocean Val Arboniés-Flores

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 technology.

Honors and Awards

  • 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

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.

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