Carceral Geography in El Paso, TX: Creating Sound Walks to Experience Disappeared Histories

2021-2022 UTEP/EPCC Mellon Humanities Collaborative Faculty Fellowship

Sound walk events, research guides, community writing workshops with The Tumblewords Project, poet interviews in Jacket2 and blog reflections created in collaboration with EPCC undergraduate research fellows Tatiana Rodriguez, Rebekah Patnode and Saul Fontes, and UTEP Public History Internship Masters student Adam Heywood.

Leading a Soundwalk outside an ICE Detention Center in El Paso, TX in April 2022

EPCC Library Research Guide: Carceral Geography in El Paso, TX

Student Blog

Tatiana Rodriguez, A Conversation with Donna Snyder: An Advocate and Speaker for the Unseen (April 2022)
Honora Spicer, Architectures of Disappearance: In Conversation with Contemporary Poets (April 2022)
Adam Heywood, Uncovering Historical Silences Towards a Cageless Future (March 2022)
Tatiana Rodriguez, Learning About Silenced Histories Through Spoken Word Poetry (November 2021)
Rebekah Patnode, Orienting to Carceral Geography in Summer 2021 (October 2021)