About

Breanna Escamilla (she/her) is a Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Graduate Minors in Latina/Latino Studies and Queer Studies. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research engages Latina feminist practices and politics, language and identity, and digital media studies. Breanna has held graduate fellowships from the Illinois Department of Anthropology, Illinois Graduate College, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and Humanities Without Walls.

Prior to UIUC, she earned her B.A in Anthropology from Michigan State University in 2018 with undergraduate minors in African American and African Studies and Chicanx/Latinx Studies.