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This speakers series is free and open to all who are curious about a career in museums and museum-adjacent fields regardless of background, major/minor or work experience. The series is made possible through generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Carolina A. Villarroel holds a PhD in Spanish literature with a specialization in US Latino Literature and Women's Studies from the University of Houston. She is the former archivist in charge of the Mexican American and African American Collections at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center at the Houston Public Library. Her expertise in US Latino culture and literature has been fundamental to her positions at the University of Houston (UH), where she is the Brown Foundation Director of Research of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, a national program whose goal is to identify, preserve, study and make accessible the written legacy of Latinos/as in the United States from the colonial period until 1980. She and her colleague, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, are also the founders of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center. The Center was funded by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation
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