Marissa López, associate professor of English in the UCLA College, was named one of the recipients of the American Council of Learned Society/Mellon Scholars & Society Fellowship.
The fellowship provides faculty, who work with and advise graduate students, the opportunity to guide projects in the humanities and strengthen curricular innovation within their campuses. Lopez’s project is a collaborative effort between the Los Angeles Public Library and UCLA to create a mobile app that will use geolocation technology to display historical images of Mexican Los Angeles relevant to a user’s real-time locations.
López studies Chicanx literature from the 19th century to the present with an emphasis on 19th-century Mexican California. She is the vice president of the Latina/o Studies Association and serves as the director of professionalization in the English department at UCLA.
