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My work focuses on the poetics and politics of Latinx and Latin American fashion, arts, dress, and visual cultures. I specialize in critical fashion studies, with an emphasis on the intersections of race and class, popular aesthetics, the colonial legacies of fashion, representation, archives, and decolonial visualities across the hemisphere.

I am pursuing my doctoral studies in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I hold a Master's in Cultural Studies from Universidad de los Andes and a Sociology degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. However, above all, I value public and collective dialogue that bridges critical academia and public humanities.

I authored Nostalgias y Aspiraciones (2021), a book on photographic archives, fashion, and class in Bogotá, and Estudios de la Moda en Colombia (2022), the first book on fashion studies in the country. I have also published several works in academic journals and edited volumes across Latin America, the United Kingdom, and the United States. I co-created the Nación Moda podcast, the first Diploma in Critical Fashion Studies, and the first course on the History of Latin Fashion in the region, thus emerging as one of the most recognized critical voices on latinx fashion.

As a writer and within digital humanities, my narrative essays have been published in Harvard Review on Latin America, The Latinx Project, El País from Spain, El Malpensante, Arcadia, Cartel Urbano, and Cero Setenta. I also contribute my voice to radio, television, and digital media. Additionally, I have participated in curatorial, co-creative, and artistic projects where I aim to transform words into material action.

My work has been recognized with distinctions such as the Chancellor's Fellowship from the University of California, research funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Crossing Latinidades Fellowship, the award for best undergraduate thesis in Sociology, the Colciencias Young Researchers grant, the Academic Excellence Scholarship from Universidad de los Andes, the Photography Research Scholarship from Colombia’s Ministry of Culture, and second place in the prestigious Emecé-IDARTES National Novel Contest.

Edward Salazar Celis.