Laura Narvaez

Laura Narvaez

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Laura Narvaez is a first-gen Ph.D. candidate in her fourth year of study at Southern Methodist University. She completed her BA and MA at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she was a Nau Graduate Research Fellow and focused on twentieth-century Texas and U.S. history. Her doctoral research centers on oral history methodology, focusing on the intersections of gender, race, and class in Chicana feminist activism and the Mexican Revolution’s impact on memory and Mexican American social movements. Currently, she works for the Voices of SMU Oral History Project, where she conducts interviews with underrepresented alumni and retiring faculty to document the history of the university and bring diverse voices into the archives.