Dr. Patricia Herrera

Selected Grants and Fellowships

Virginia Humanities Foundation, Through It All, January 2022.

The Associated Colleges of the South, Participatory History and Archiving: An Initiative to Promote and Support Undergraduate Instruction and Project Outcomes in Community-Based Research and Archiving, Through It All, Centre College, Rollins College, Washington and Lee University, and Sewanee: The University of The South, the project lea, September 2021.

Virginia Humanities Foundation, Voices from Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic, The Valentine, Exhibition Sponsor, June 2019. 

Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, Voices from Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic, The Valentine, Exhibition Sponsor, June 2019. 

New York Public Library Short Term Fellowship Program, May 2017. 

Yale Mellon Mid-Career Fellowship, Whitney Humanities Center, Alternate, February 2016. 

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Latino Americans: 500 Years of History! June 2015-May 2016.

UR School of Arts and Science, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, Community-Engaged Research and Practice Initiative Fellowship, March 2014.

Collaborative Research Award, American Society for Theatre Research, November 2019. 

Collaboration for Change Award, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, September 2018. 

University of Richmond Distinguished Educator, August 2018. 

Faculty Award for Outstanding Citizenship with International Education, School of International Education, April 2017. 

National Center for Institutional Diversity Exemplary Scholar, University of Michigan, 2009.

“Healing Offerings: The Work of Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez in Cuba,” Gender-Based Violence: Community-Building and Resistance Through Feminist Pedagogical and Artistic Practices, National Women's Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2019.

“A Latinx Testimonio of Motherhood in Academia,” Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance, National Women's Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2019.

“Performando un activism feminist: El trabajo de Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez en La Marca,” with Mariela Méndez, Mujeres ambiente en la historia y la cultura latinoamericanas y caribeñas, Coloquio internacional de mujeres, Casas de las Américas, Habana, Cuba, February 2019.

“Listening to Sonic Subalterity: Sonic Labor in Lin Manuel-Miranda’s In the Heights,” Emergent Auralities: Subaltern Sounds in Latinx Cultural Production and Performance, American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2018.

“Productive Failures: Lessons with Community Based Projects,” Radical Inclusion Two: A Continuing Discussion Offering Tactics for Creative Learning Spaces for Engaging with Race, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2018.

“Sonic Treatise of Race in America: The Case of Universes and Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Sound and Performance, Modern Language Association, New York City, January 2018.

“Sounding Out Radicalism,” The Transtemporalities of Minoritarian Performance, American Society for Theatre Research, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2017.

“Listening to Sonic Coalition: Virginia Repertory’s In the Heights, Staging Latinx Musicals in the Post-Hamilton Era, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2017.

“Sounding Out the Radical Past in Universes’ Party People, The Transtemporalities of Minoritarian Performance, Indiana University, May 2017.

“Listening Critically to In the Heights Pan-Latinidad,” Sounding Latinidades: Race, Cultural Citizenship, and In the Heights, The 3^rd Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21^st Century, John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, New York City, April 2017.

“Sonic Utopias & Dystopias: The Unraveling of the Racial Past, Present, and Future in Hamilton,” American Society for Theatre Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2017.

“Sonic Hauntings of Blackness and Latinidad in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Hamilton: The Development, Casting, and Performance of a New American Musical, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Chicago, Illinois, August 2016.

“Sonic Latinidades: Carefully Listening to Latina/o Theatre,” Sonic (In)Civilities in Latin@ Theater and Performance, Latina/o Studies Association, Pasadena, California, July 2016.

“Staging Nuyorican Belonging: From Feminist Cultural Productions to Hip Hop Theatre,” Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethic of Collective Dissent, American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 2013.

“Performing Belonging: Culture Clash’s Nuyorican Stories,” (Re)Positioning the Latina/o Americas: Theatrical Histories and Cartographies of Power, American Society for Theatre Research, Dallas, Texas, November 2013.

“Performing the Archives: A 1968 Laboratory,” with Laura Browder and Benjamin Thorp, A Call to Action, Imagining America National Conference, Syracuse, New York, October 2013.

“Jamming Against Institutional Violence: The Works of Sandra Maria Esteves and Migdalia Cruz,” Aesthetic Dimensions of the Puerto Rican Diaspora: Institutional Violence, Sexuality, and Public Culture, American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2012.

“Aural Imaginary and Genealogy of Performances: Creating Oral Histories of the Founding Mothers of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe,” “Hear/Say”: Aural and Oral Histories of Theatre and Performance, American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2012.

2012 Re-mix, Re-use, Re-frame: Strategies for Teaching Hip Hop Theatre and Teaching Theatre with Hip Hop, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., August.

2012 Panel Discussant, “Global Hip Hop,” Digital Scholarship and Transnational American Studies, Tocqueville Conference, University of Richmond, May.

“Divisions and Intersections: Rethinking Latina/o and Latin American Theatre,” Power and Performance: Staging Politics in the Latina/o Americas, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Latina/o Focus Group Pre-Conference, Washington, D.C., August 2012.

Respondent for the book Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations, Spotlight on New Works in American Theatre, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., August 2012.

“Creating a Semester Plan,” Striking a Balance Between Work and Life, 2012 Virginia Network Conference 4th Women of Color Conference, Richmond, Virginia, June 2012.

Co-chair, Institutional Council for Thriving, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, Office of the President, July 2019-Present

Vice President for Awards, American Society for Theatre Research, November 2017-November 2020

Advisory Board Member of Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras Cambio Social (MALCS)

Advisory Board Member of Chicana/Latina Studies: the Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras Cambio Social (MALCS)