Role: Mapping Project Researchers

Thais Rodrigues Cons (she/they) is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona, with a minor in Information. Originally from Brazil, Thais works at the intersection of technical and professional communication, archival studies, and linguistic justice. She holds an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and a B.A. in…

Juliet is a PhD student in the University of Arizona History department, where they research environmental history, focusing on the longue durée and life cycles of the Sonoran Desert, following geological shifts, watersheds, and plant/animal migrations. Juliet approaches their research on both sides of the borderlands of Arizona with the lens of examining the More-Than-Human.…

Rosa Maldonado is a University of Arizona Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Mexican American Studies, with a minor in Medical Anthropology. Her dissertation is situated at the intersection of the medical humanities, Chicana/Latina feminist theory, DisCrit, and archival studies, centering the experiences of older immigrant Latina women living with interrelated illnesses such as diabetes,…

Nicole Hayes (they/she) is an MLIS graduate student at the University of Arizona. Their area of study primarily concerns archives and public librarianship with an emphasis on disability, social justice, and critical archival practice. Their approach to preservation aims to decentralize dominant narratives and challenge linear notions of time rooted in western neoliberal ideals of…

Gabriella (Gabby) M. Shriner (she/they) is a PhD Candidate at the College of Information Science with a minor in Communication Studies at the University of Arizona. They hold an MLIS from Rutgers University (NJ), and have over five years of experience working in public libraries. Her research examines the many intersections between the hybrid nature…

Farzaneh Talebhaghighi (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information at the University of Arizona with a minor in Social Sciences, with a research focus at the intersection of archival studies, immersive technologies, and sociotechnical design. She holds an M.A. in Archival Studies and a B.A. in Library and Information Science from Al-Zahra…

Taylor Marie Doherty (they/she) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona with minors in Information Science and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. Taylor is a co-organizer of the Archival Activism, Memory, and the Body Workshop and the Social Reproduction Theory Collective. They earned a Graduate…