Wanda Roselee Hernández

Wanda Hernández is a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, where she is completing her dissertation, Performing Archives: How Central Americans Perform Race in the DMV. Her research interests revolve around the formation of race and ethnic identity among US Central Americans through material and visual culture, space and place, and performances of the everyday. In 2021, she was Latino Museum Studies Program Fellow at the National Museum of American History, where she helped with the Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative. In addition to academia, Wanda is an independent curator and cultural organizer. She co-founded a curatorial collective named Creating Casa, which organizes art exhibitions and public programs that question Latine identity and placemaking in the Washington metropolitan area. Their last show, Siempre Aquí, opened in June 2021 and mapped the memories of DMV Latines through personal photographs.