Nathaly Lilia Ortiz

Education:

B.A., English, University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu; M.A., Women & Gender Studies, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Dissertation:

Landscapes of Grief: Transborder Memory-Making and Specters of Fort Hood

Thesis Advisor:

Emily L. Hue, Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside

Research Topic:

Landscapes of Grief critically examines the U.S. military non-combat deaths of young women soldiers by tracking their remains through the aural and visual repertoires of transborder memory, the transnational bureaucracies of militarized humanitarian parole, and posthumous repatriation spanning the US-México borderlands.

Mentor:

Lilia Soto, Professor of Chicana/o/x Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position:

President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chicana/o/x Studies, University of California, Davis

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