Graduate Students
Jessica Montalvo
CONTACT INFORMATION
BIOGRAPHY
Jessica Montalvo is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Communication at the 最新天美传媒. She draws from relational communication, disability studies, and auto/ethnography to examine how mothers attune to their children with disabilities. Her background in anthropology and communication guide an interdisciplinary approach that centers cultural processes and reflexive practices in the construction of dis/abled, raced, and gendered identities.
RESEARCH AREAS
Relational Communication, Disability Studies, Cultural Performance, Auto/Ethnography, Race and Gender
ADVISOR
Keith Berry