Project Title: Embodied Borders: Transborder Mobility and Mental Health at Mexico-U.S. Ports of Entry
Estefanía Castañeda Pérez, University of Pennsylvania
Estefanía Castañeda Pérez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Migration Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in political science, her research interests include border policing, mental health among transborder populations, the conceptualization and consequences of violence, and border politics. Her dissertation examined how the lives of transborder commuters are impacted by their border crossing experiences and interactions with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers. Her research has been supported by the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Her work has been published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, and in academic blogs such as NACLA and the NYU Latinx Project Intervenxions Blog. Castañeda Pérez has a master’s degree in political science from UCLA, and a bachelor’s degree in political science with an honors minor in interdisciplinary studies from San Diego State University.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants provide support for the advancement of scholars from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and for research that examines political science phenomena affecting historically underserved communities and underrepresented groups and communities. In July 2023, APSA awarded six projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for a combined total award amount of $12,000. In December 2023, APSA awarded three additional projects.
Read more about the funded projects here.