News & Events

July 2026

New Member of the Advisor Team

MMARP is pleased to welcome Dr. Manuela Alejandra Gomez as the newest member of advisors

Dr. Gomez is an award-winning Professor of Philosophy at El Paso Community College, with more than twenty years of teaching experience in the United States and Mexico. Her work brings together philosophy, education, journalism, public service, and the cultural life of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

She is the author of Intersecting Worlds in Mexican American Philosophy: Teaching and Learning from the Border and has been recognized for her contributions to teaching, scholarship, and community engagement, including her induction into the El Paso Women’s Hall of Fame in 2024.

Dr. Gomez has also contributed to civic and cultural initiatives, including the creation of the Healing Garden, developed in collaboration with Dr. David Carrasco to commemorate the victims of the August 3, 2019, El Paso shooting.

MMARP is honored to welcome Dr. Gomez to its advisory team. Her work in Mexican American philosophy, borderlands education, and public humanities will bring valuable insight to the project’s ongoing research, archival, and educational initiatives.

June 2026

Images of Mexico: Myths, Rites, and Arts

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights
1100 Massachusetts Ave, 2nd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

The Raphael and Fletcher Lee Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project (MMARP) is pleased to sponsor the exhibition Images of Mexico: Myths, Rites, and Arts. As a proud sponsor of the exhibition, MMARP extends a warm welcome to two of its award recipients visiting from Mexico, Paulina Ángeles García and Mariana Paola Campos de Hoyos, whose work draws renewed attention to the richness of Mexico’s visual culture and artistic traditions.

Organized by Sitalin Sánchez Acevedo, the exhibition brings together a selection of works that explore myth, ritual, and artistic expression. Drawing on Indigenous traditions and practices of cultural continuity, the exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to engage with images that reflect Mexico’s cultural history, identity, and creative vitality.

We warmly invite members of the Harvard community and the public to experience this celebration of Mexican visual culture.

The exhibition will remain on view through the end of the month. For more information, please visit their website: https://www.imagesofmexico.com

May 2026

Yoltajtol – Palabra del Corazón: Nahuatl Workshop (Second Edition)

Date: May 1
Time: 3:00–5:00 PM
Location: Tozzer Building, Room 203
21 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
Format: Interactive workshop

Back by popular demand, the Raphael and Fletcher Lee Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project (MMARP) is pleased to invite you to the second edition of Yoltajtol – Palabra del Corazón, a workshop centered on Nahuatl language and cultural expression. We had a full house and enthusiastic engagement during our workshop last year.

This session will be led by Francisco Sánchez Conde, a Nahua writer, interpreter, and researcher of oral traditions from San Miguel Tzinacapan, Puebla, with support from Sitalin Sánchez Acevedo. The workshop invites participants to explore the theme “Food, Nature, and Territory,” reflecting on how identity, memory, and place are interconnected through language, plants, animals, and everyday practices. 

Kindly register by April 30 so adequate seating and refreshments (including Mexican conchas and South American alfajores) will be available. RSVP here.

All are welcome. For more information, please email the MMARP Coordinator, Meli Buentello-Olivo, at mbuentelloolivo@fas.harvard.edu.