Lena Mose-Vargas

Lena Mose-Vargas (they/she) is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. They study Chicana history and Mexican American placemaking in the Great Plains, with an emphasis on Kansas in the 1970s. Mose-Vargas' research focuses on how data-collecting practices and organizing efforts from the Chicano movement and women's movement influenced social change and political advancements in Kansas. In their dissertation, they aim to bring together Latinx Studies, Digital Humanities, Information Studies, and History, to historicize the critical lens that Chicanas deployed to articulate their own experience and push for intersectional information practices that prioritized migrant labor. Mose-Vargas' additional research endeavors include the genealogy of Chicana historians and investigating the dynamic realm of digital feminist activism across the Americas. They have worked on projects at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Spencer Museum of Art, The Feminist Keywords Editorial Collective, and the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities.