Alexis N. Meza is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and an incoming Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Women’s Studies at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. She earned her PhD and MA in the Department of History at UC San Diego where she was the recipient of the San Diego Fellowship, the Integrative Fellowship Initiative, and the San Diego/Imperial County Community College Association Regional Fellowship Program. She earned a B.A. with honors in History and Latin American and Iberian Studies from UC Santa Barbara where she was a McNair Scholar. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow, a Bouchet Honor Society Scholar, and an NYU Faculty First-Look Scholar. She is trained as a US historian and her scholarship engages transnational and relational Central American and Latina/o Studies. By combining archival research, oral history, and cultural studies she focuses on the experiences, politics, and memory-making practices of Salvadoran migrants, refugees, and their children in the diaspora. Drawing on her community organizing in accompaniment with asylum-seekers and among the immigrant detention abolitionist movement, she co-authored the chapter “No Estan Solxs: Mourning Migrant Suffering and Death through Commemorative Art at the US/Mexico Border: in the anthology Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump’s Reign of Terror (University of Arizona Press, 2024).
