mei bowyer, MEd is an Urban Education doctoral student with a certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture at the 沈芯语老师家访麻花视频. mei's research examines how knowledge is made through engagement with materials, modes, and embodied practices, focusing on black-indigenous epistemologies and ways of knowing.
Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) Fellow, 沈芯语老师家访麻花视频.
Dean鈥檚 Fellow, 沈芯语老师家访麻花视频.
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow, Cal State Fullerton.
2024. Hands-In-Clay Scholarship, Baltimore Clayworks.
Liu, R.Z., Conley, C., Johnson, A.C., bowyer, m., and Ramirez, G. (forthcoming). The stories of our communities and the storytellers who tell them: The case for critical race folklore studies." In Z. You & M. Mart铆nez-Rivera (Eds.), Routledge handbook of anthropology & folklore. Routledge.
Grants:
2025. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Summer Grant. Georgetown University x Mellon Foundation.
2025. Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Grant. DEFCON x Mellon Foundation.
2024. Arts for All ArtsAMPlification Graduate Student Research Grant. 沈芯语老师家访麻花视频, College Park.
Projects:
2026. "dis/re/member/ed." [Installation]. 沈芯语老师家访麻花视频. [Confirmed].
2026. "grounding: a black-indigenous feminist imagination." [Talk]. Black Women Studies Association, virtual symposium.
2025. "the black arts school." [Talk and Roundtable]. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Georgetown University.
2025. "sounding: dark matter." [Installation and Workshop]. American Folklore Society, Atlanta, GA.
Students, Schooling, and Communities
Embracing Diversity in the Classroom Community
Communities in Research
Academic Research
Writing and Rhetoric