Awardee: Elena Deanda-Camacho, “Colonial America, Sexuality, and the Centering of the Margins”
Elena Deanda-Camacho’s work is situated in the archives and draws on sexual politics of the eighteenth-century, postcolonial and intersectional approaches. This project offers a transnational lens for current scholarship on 18th-century censorship and definitions of obscenity. The inclusion of Afro-Mexican subjects is an underserved topic in eighteenth-century studies that Dr. Deanda-Camacho’s work brings more attention to.The scope of their work is wide but their focus is specific. This is precisely the kind of project the Intersectionality Prize was made for!
Committee 2025-2026
Lillian Lu
Emily Kugler
Misty Krueger