Lilia Raquel Rosas, Ph.D.
Lilia Raquel Rosas, Ph.D.
Lilia Raquel Rosas is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, but also calls Austin home after living and working with its diverse communities for over two and half decades, including as the Executive Director of Red Salmon Arts. She is the proud daughter of a retired cook/former bracero and a retired domestica. She joined the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of Instruction in 2018, where her teaching and research interests include relational and comparative Ethnic and Queer Studies through the histories of (me)Xicana/o/s, African Americans, women, indigeneity, and race and sexualities. Recently, Lilia Raquel was awarded a U.S. Latino Digital Humanities-Mellon Foundation Grants-in-Aid to initiate the project, Tejana Historias: Indigenous Indentations and Transfrontera Transformation, a visual repository of the Tejana experiences from the Paleoindian Period to the present.