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Research Interests

His research in critical fashion studies focuses on power, coloniality, race, whiteness, popular aesthetics, archives, and visual Latinx and Latin American cultures from a perspective that questions and decenters fashion narratives and history.

His doctoral project examines the Latin(x) American Fashion Archives within hegemonic cultural institutions, as well as in counter-practices of gathering, collecting, and exhibiting. His project delves into the intricacies and political dynamics of fashion archives and their intersections with race, class, resistance, and meaning-making. Furthermore, his work proposes a hemispheric perspective as a scholarly approach to decolonial fashion thought in practice.

Biography, Education and Training

Edward is a Ph.D. student in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department. He holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a master's degree in Cultural Studies. 

Honors, Awards and Grants

Co-Principal Investigator, Expanding Latinx Studies at and beyond UC Santa Cruz, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2023-24)

Summer Publishing Fellowship, UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative - (Summer 2023)

Dean's Travel Grant, UCSC - (Spring 2023)

UCHRI Multicampus Graduate Working Groups Fellowship - (2023/24)

Chancellor's Fellowship - University of California, Santa Cruz (2022/23)

Research Scholarship in Photographic Patrimony, Ministry of Culture, Colombia (2016-2017)

Master's Excellence Scholarship - Los Andes University, Colombia (2011-2012)

New Generation Young Research, Ministry of Science, Colombia (2011-2012)

Best Sociological Bachelor Dissertation Award, National University of Colombia (2010)

Selected Publications

Essays

-  Colonial Legacies: The Met Museum and the Absence of Latinx Designers in Fashion Archives. The Latinx Project, 2024

- Streets are Dangerously Creative. El Malpensante, 2023.

Books

- Estudios de la moda en Colombia. Recorridos de una pregunta en construcción (Ed), 2022

- Nostalgias y aspiraciones. Vestir, estéticas y tránsitos de las clases medias bogotanas en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, 2021

Academic Journal 

- ¡Moda Hoy! Latin American and Latinx Fashion Design Today. Fashion Theory, 2023.

- Beauty has no age anymore: Fashion and youth in Colombia (1970‐99). International Journal of Fashion Studies, 2021.

- La ligereza como nueva forma de vida: entrevista con Gilles Lipovetsky para un análisis del presente. Hallazgos en Ciencias Sociales, 2020.

- Estéticas en plural. La moda popular en Bogotá. Cuadernos de Antropología Universidad de Costa Rica, 2016.