Julio Villa-Palomino is the recipient of the 2020 Carole H. Browner Latin American Studies Fellowship Fund for Travel (LASFFT) award. This award is given to support the travel of graduate students from Mexico, Central, and South American to attend the AAA Annual Meeting. Having earned his B.A at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; he’s currently a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although it’s early in his doctoral studies, Julio has been published widely in peer-reviewed and non-reviewed journals in Spanish and English.