Jesús Estrada-Pérez Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Celebrating the legacy of scholar and activist Jesús Estrada-Pérez, this fellowship provides additional summer funding for graduate students. Fellowships are awarded to students whose projects engage some aspect of queer Latinx artistic production, subjectivity, epistemologies, cultural studies, social justice issues, and all relevant interdisciplinary theories and/or methods.
This fellowship is sponsored by the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies with generous gifts from family, friends, and colleagues.
About Jesús Estrada-Pérez
Estrada-Pérez was a graduate student in the Department of American Studies and was awarded his PhD posthumously in 2016. An instructor in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies, he belonged to a number of formal and informal student organizations as well as nationally recognized professional associations.
He enthusiastically participated in activist movements and was passionately involved in social justice work. Thus, he often challenged conventional practices and questioned existing policies.
He was widely known and loved by students and faculty across the University and in social and political circles throughout the Twin Cities. Estrada-Pérez was at the vanguard of Queer of Color theory. At the time of his death, he was conducting a groundbreaking and important analysis of the work of Gay Chicano Artists.
Past Recipients
| Name | Department | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Beeman, Briana | theatre arts & dance | 2024 |
| Penaloza Morales, Mariana | geography, environment & society | 2023 |
| Beeman, Briana | theatre arts & dance | 2022 |
| Esposto, Isaac | gender, women & sexuality studies | 2022 |
| Ornelas, E. | gender, women & sexuality studies | 2021 |
| Santillana, Jose | gender, women & sexuality studies | 2021 |
| Ordonez, Magaly | gender, women & sexuality studies | 2020 |
| Guzman, Roy | English | 2018 |
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