About

Welcome to my site! My name is Natalia Andrea Mora.

I recently received my M.A from NYU GSAS in XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement. My M.A. research focused on social media censorship and the impact of this corporate act on the history of vulnerable populations. I primarily focused on the censorship that occurred during the protests in Colombia in April 2021 viewing the censorship of these “safe space” platforms, such as Instagram, as an arm of the state to silence communities who have been historically silenced in the history books. I was privileged to receive a Tinker Field Research Grant to spend Summer 2023 in my hometown of Yumbo, Colombia to conduct my field research.

Throughout my M.A. I was an Adjunct Instructor and Course Assistant for the Anthropology department teaching introductory courses on Latin America, Hip Hop, and Human Rights While at NYU I was part of their Pathways to PhD Program. While I did not go on to pursue a PhD I am incredibly grateful for the support I received from all my mentors and classmates.

Before pursuing my M.A, I worked as a Public Benefits Paralegal in the Bronx. The majority of my work during that year was helping people gain rental assistance “post”-Covid, as well as SNAP. I found the work quite rewarding as I was able to help people from the community gain benefits to continue to remain in their homes and sustain themselves. This work, however, also highlighted for me the many issues that exist within the public benefits system, which stop many people from getting the help they not only need but deserve.

I hold a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from Haverford College with concentrations in Latin America and Iberian Studies as well as Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. While at Haverford I was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (MMUF) as well as a Chesick Scholar. Being a Chesick and MMUF allowed me to pursue my two research interests. One of them was possible due to a partnership between a Guatemalan nonprofit organization and the Digital Scholarship Department within Haverford Libraries. The Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), continues to support families of those forcibly disappeared by the state during the Guatemalan Civil War. I was fortunate to work on their digital archive over my four years and travel to their offices in 2019. My work with the GAM continues to be the work I am most proud. 

My thesis, on the other hand, focused on notions of belonging in the Andalucian city of Granada, where I did my study abroad. I looked into the city’s contested past as well as its present ties with the Muslim community.

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