Eva is interested in investigating the educational, familial, artistic, and political experiences that socially construct the Afro-Latinx subject. Eva is particularly interested in how the acceptance or denial of Blackness functions to displace Afro-Latinx individuals and communities. Her research explores interpersonal relationships, racial socialization, government documents, and concepts of Afrolatindad that are born from a hailing into socio-political damnation. This work is guided by the principle that communication and ethnic contexts are crucial to studying Afro-Latinx subjects across the Americas and the Carribbean. 

Along with the Afro-Latinx subject, Eva has a strong interest in rhetoric and interpersonal communication. Her most recent work, Persuasive Parodies in Peer Review, which has been presented at the National Communication Association and is under review in the Journal of Communication in Critical/Cultural Studies, focuses on the academic hoax. "Persuasive Parodies" investigates academia as a proto-public space and explores the methods used to validate scholarship. 

A South-Central Los Angeles native, Eva serves on the board of South Central Youth Empowered through Action housed in Community Coalition. She works with community members to facilitate events which focus on creating vehicles to carry out social action.

WHY PS @ NYU?

I chose performance studies because I am interested in the doing and the being of every day life. I think New York is a great place to complicate every day life performances through critical theory, political, and artistic practices.