Marilyn Ortega

PhD Student

maortega@ku.edu

Primary office:

213C Bailey Hall

Marilyn Ortega is a Xican@/Woman of Color/mother, community educator/organizer and Ph.D student in American Studies at the University of Kansas. Her work is grounded in her lived experiences and community involvement. Marilyn Ortega’s primary objectives in her work are to decolonize the mind/body and build coalition across lines of difference/borders created and maintained by colonialism. Her current research examines the ways that historical trauma complicates recovery for Xicanas that self-medicate after childhood sexual trauma.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in American Ethnic Studies and Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies from Kansas State University where she focused on expanding conversations about the School-to-Prison Pipeline to understand the Prison Industrial Complex as a reproductive justice issue terrorizing communities of color in the United States.

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Please read this article about professor Robert Warrior titled: Native scholar uncomfortably at home in American studies field.
Congratulations to Daniel Carey-Whalen, an alumni that was recently promoted as UTEP's Centennial Museum director.
We invite you to attend "Black Love: A Symposium", a week-long interdisciplinary conference all about black love. Click here for more information.
Congratulations to Josh Parshall, an alumni who was recently featured in this article.
Congratulations to Christopher Perreira for receiving the National Academies Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center for 2017-2018.
Congratulations to Ph.D. student William Adams for receiving the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) Summer Short-term Fellowship.
How a motion-tracking musical software is breaking down barriers for people with disabilities: click here to read more about the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), a one-of-a-kind piece of inclusive technology that promotes musical improvisation. The article recognizes Sherrie Tucker, who started AUMI jam sessions and helped to bring the grant and symposium for it to Lawrence. Written by Omar Sanchez.
View the 3/13 Lawrence 497 Board of Education Meeting here. Ruben Flores speaks from 28:00-38:00 and John Rury speaks from 54:00-59:00.
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Hannah Bailey for being awarded the 2017 Graduate Studies Summer Scholarship.
Ph.D. candidate, Rachel Schwaller, has been awarded the Hall Center's Sias Fellowship for Spring 2018. Congratulations, Rachel!
KU Special Education Department: With Ray Pence
Tribute Or Tribulation? How do we commemorate history? What is the best way to remember a conflicted and painful past? And who gets to decide? Listen here »
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Marilyn Ortega for being selected as one of the inaugural National Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Fellows for 2017.
Congratulations to Kathryn Vaggalis who received the Center for Migration Research Graduate Student Grant.
Ph.D. student Gamze Kati was one of the winners of the second annual IEHS graduate student blog competition this year. Congratulations, Gamze!

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