Mariana Sabino Salazar
Mariana Sabino Salazar
QUALIFICATIONS
2023 Ph.D., Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin
2017 M.A., Luso-Brazilian Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin
2014 M.A., History, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
2007 B.S., Economics, Universidad Iberoamericana
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Transatlantic Studies; Migration and Diaspora Studies; Romani Studies; Critical Archival Studies; Latin American Cultural History; Latin American Visual Culture (Mexico and Brazil); Critical Race Studies; Gender Studies; Nationalism and Memorialization.
RESEARCH PROFILE
My research delves into the representation of diasporic and immigrant populations in Latin American popular culture from a trans-Atlantic perspective. Over the past thirteen years, my research has centered on Romani Latin American history and the "Gypsy" stereotype in film, music, and literature. I am currently developing two research projects. One examines racial shifting and the reclaiming of Romani ancestry in Brazil. The other is a book manuscript that analyzes how the recurring female "Gypsy" character in Mexican horror films and Brazilian Westerns reflects anxieties about communism and female emancipation.
I also collaborated with the United Nations on a crowd-sourced Romani Memory Map for the Americas and served as head archivist at the Romani Archives and Documentation Center for seven years. My broader interests include counter-archives and counter-mapping as tools for preserving subaltern histories.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
2021 Rómovia v Latinskej Amerike [Romani People in Latin America]. Special Double Issue of Romano Džaniben, 28(1&2). (co-editor Fotta, Martin)
Journal Articles
2023 Estudos romanis (ciganos) na América Latina e no Caribe: temas emergentes e estado do campo em Argentina, Colômbia e México [Romani Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Emerging Themes and State of the Field in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico]. Civitas: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 23(1), e43062. (co-author Fotta, Martin)
2021 Romistika v Latinské Americe a Karibiku: Perspektivy a výzvy [Romani Studies in Latin America and Caribbean: Perspectives and Challenges]. Romano džaniben 28(1): 5–27. (co-author Fotta, Martin)
2021 Vyvoj postavy ‘Cikánky’ v mexické kinematografii (1943-1978) a její rasové a nacionalistické implikace. [The 'Gypsy' stereotype in Mexican cinema (1943-1978) and its racial and nationalist implications] Romano džaniben, vol. 28, no. 2, 9-29.
2020 The Romani Archives and Documentation Center: A Migratory Archive. Critical Romani Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 104-111.
Book Chapters
2024 From ‘White’ Stolen Children to Devil’s Assistants: The Transformation of the ‘Gypsy’ Female Character in Mexican Cinema and its ‘Race’ and Nationalist Implications. Counterstrategies to Antigypsy Gaze, edited by Radmila Mladenova, Heidelberg UP.
2020 El proceso inquisitorial a Maria de la Concepción de nación Gitana 1668-1680 [The inquisitorial process of Maria de la Concepción of the Gypsy nation 1668-1680]. Nombrar y circular, “gitanos” entre Europa y las Américas: innovación, creatividad y resistencia, edited by Neyra Patricia Alvarado Solís, Colegio de San Luis, 165-186.
2014 Historia y memoria de los Romaníes en México [History and memory of the Roma in Mexico]. Acervos regionales en la construcción histórica, edited by Josué Mario Villavicencio and Blanca Esthela Santibañez, BUAP, 172-179.
2012 “Minería en Oaxaca y Chiapas” In: José Maldonado García (eds.) Mesoamérica: La disputa por el territorio: U Ayuuk and U Iberoamericana, pp. 97-123.
2012 “Veracruz: el caso del puerto.” In: José Maldonado García (eds.) Mesoamérica: La disputa por el territorio: U Ayuuk and U Iberoamericana, pp. 297-314.
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2024–2026 Romani Atlantic: Transcontinental Logic of Ethno-Racial Identities. Lumina Quaeruntur Fellowship, Czech Academy of Sciences (LQ300582201). Postdoctoral Researcher.
External Reviewing
Project Evaluation: Mandela Washington Fellowship, Project proposal evaluation (2024).
Journal Articles Manuscript Review: Critical Romani Studies; Secuencias.
Doctoral Thesis Examination: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
Teaching Experience
2023–2024 Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico.
2014–2023 Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese Department, University of Texas at Austin.
2022 Fulbright Invited Lecturer, Imagem e Som, Universidad Federal de São Carlos
2009 Lecturer, Departamento de Economía, Universidad Iberoamericana.
Invited Talks, Public Lectures or Roundtables
2023 May, 26. La imagen hipersexualizada de la gitana en el cine mexicano y brasileño. Deconstruyendo a Carmen. Perspectivas decoloniales en la imagen de los gitanos, Congress, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
2022 November, 29. As ciganas no cinema latino-americano e as repercussões na cultura popular, Centro de Pesquisa e Formação, SESC São Paulo.
2021 January 11. Roma in the Americas, Barvalipe Academy, The European Roma
Institute for Arts and Culture. (co-panelists Hancock, Ian – Esteban, Acuña – Brooks, Ethel).
2020 September, 21. Lola Flores en México, un acercamiento transnacional, Representaciones culturales de la comunidad Gitana en España (y más allá), CUNY, College of Staten Island. (co-panelists Smidakova, Bohumira)
2018 January, 11 ¿Romaníes o Gitanos?: historia, identidad y estereotipos en la cultura
mexicana, Discussion Panel, Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City. (co- panelists Baroco, Fernanda –Vericat, Isabel)
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2019 April 5-6. Body, Discourse, and Movement. 23rd Graduate Student Colloquium of Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin.
