Lucía Gonzalez

Lucía is a third-year PhD student in History and Women’s and Gender Studies whose research examines the political economy and social history of modern urban Uruguay. Their current work focuses on girlhood, carcerality, and the care economy in the early twentieth century. As a scholar, Lucía is committed to uplifting narratives of girlhood that center the creative and resilient ways girls have imagined and forged alternative possibilities for their lives, especially when experiencing social, political, and economic precarity.During the fellowship period, she will focus on writing three chapters from her dissertation. The chapters explores diaspora responses to conflict through protest and digital activism, the emotional ties to homeland and loss, and how colonial-era legacies continue to shape identity, politics, and religion among Northern Nigerian migrants in Chicago. 

During the fellowship year, Lucía plans to conduct research at the Archivo Histórico del Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescentes in Montevideo. There, they will continue investigating how girls in the child welfare system renegotiated the physical and emotional demands of care work, and how tensions between care as labor obligation and care as affective practice shaped their experiences renegotiating power, identity, belonging, and survival.