“The Limits of exteriority or Exteriority as Limit?”: Enrique Dussel and the Modern Project in Bolivia . 52rd South eastern Council of Latin American Studies conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,  April 2005.

Engendering the Bolivian Nation-State: The Mestiza, the Popular, and the Pedagogical in La niña de sus ojos and La Chaskañawi V women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies conference, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, U.K. March-April 2004

“The Fissured Texts of Brilliant Weavers: A Discussion of Translation through Two Bolivian Novels” Boston College, Boston, April 2002.

“Aluvión de fuego: A Narrative in Quest of Nation” Eleventh Charles Fraker Graduate Student’s conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2002.

“The Fissured Texts of Brilliant Weavers” Tenth Charles Fraker Graduate Students’ Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2001.

“Provincializing Europe: A Latin American Perspective” Comparative Literatures Inter Faculty and Students’ Forum (CLIFF), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2001

March 2005 Conducted research in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

December 2004 conducted Research at the National Archive of Bolivia in Sucre, Boliiva.

2004 Grant from the USA Research Council

2004  USA Arts and Sciences Research  Fellowship