JOHANA LONDOÑO
PhD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
OF LATINA/O/X STUDIES
RESEARCH INTERESTS: LATINA/O/X URBAN CULTURE; BARRIOS; POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITIES; COMPARATIVE ETHNIC STUDIES; SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THEORY; REPRESENTATIONS OF POVERTY; SOCIAL WELFARE; CULTURAL POLITICS OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN; AESTHETICS AND VISUAL CULTURE.
NEW BOOK!
https://www.dukeupress.edu/abstract-barrios
https://bookshop.org/books/abstract-barrios-the-crises-of-latinx-visibility-in-cities/9781478009658
RECENT EVENTS
01.19.21
GUEST LECTURE AND VIRTUAL TOUR, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
At this event, I discussed the Latinx history of Union City, NJ.
03.14.19
ART & THE POLITICS OF SPACE, LATINX PROJECT, NYU
Invited to present on Latinx urban aesthetics and gentrification at a one-day symposium on visual, scholarly, and activist responses to spatial precarity.
10.28.19
GUEST LECTURE, UNION COLLEGE
At this event, I presented on my book, Abstract Barrios, with a particular focus on chapter 3 on Santa Ana, CA.
07.14.18
"COLOMBIA PARK," LATINA/O/X
STUDIES ASSOCIATION
I presented on "Colombia Park," a playground inaugurated in 2012 in Union City, NJ. The panel was one of several focused on Colombianx studies.
06.27.19
WORLD HISTORY ASSOC. / GLOBAL HISTORY URBAN PROJECT
03.01.19
ANNUAL LATINO PUBLIC AFFAIRS FORUM, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Presented about barrio histories on the "Cahllenging Caribbean Urban Design and its Logics" panel.
11.09.17
ON GENTRIFICATION AND DEATH, AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ASA)
Invited to present on Latinx place making practices at this annual event at the Center for Latin American & Latino Studies.
10.20.17
INAUGURAL U.S. COLOMBIANX STUDIES SYMPOSIUM, WILLIAMS COLLEGE
I presented "On Gentrification and Death" as part of the "The Politics and Racial Aesthetics of Public Space" panel at the annual conference in Chicago.
I co-organized and presented
at this two-day event.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Lina Rincon, Johana Londoño, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Maria Elena Cepeda.
FORTHCOMING 2020.
"REIMAGINING US COLOMBIANIDADES: TRANSNATIONAL SUBJECTIVITIES, CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS, AND POLITICAL CONTESTATIONS."
LATINO STUDIES
Johana Londoño
AUGUST 2015.
"CRITICAL LATINA/O URBAN STUDIES IN METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE OF LATINA/O MAJORITY UNION CITY, NJ."
OCCASION (ARCADE: A DIGITAL SALON). 8:1-13
Johana Londoño and Erualdo Gonzalez.
AUGUST 2015.
"THE CHANGING POLITICS OF LATINO CONSUMPTION: DEBATES IN SANTA ANA'S REVITALIZATION."
IN RACE AND RETAIL: CONSUMPTION ACROSS THE COLOR LINE, ed. Mia Bay and Ann Fabian. New Brunswick: Rutgers Press, 176-199.
Johana Londoño
SEPTEMBER 2014.
"BARRIO AFFINITIES: TRANSNATIONAL INSPIRATION AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF LATINA/O DESIGN."
AMERICAN QUARTERLY 66(3):529-548.
Johana Londoño
MARCH 2015.
"THE LATINO-NESS
OF TYPE: DESIGN IDENTITIES AND
THEIR USES IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE."
SOCIAL SEMIOTICS
25(2):142-150.
FELLOWSHIPS
2017-2018
FORD FOUNDATION POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN STUDIES (AT COLUMBIA)
2014-2015
INAUGURAL FELLOW OF THE PRINCETON-MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND HUMANITIES AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
2012
RUTGERS PRESIDENTIAL DIVERSITY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LATINO AND HISPANIC CARIBBEAN STUDIES (DECLINED)
2011
MORSE POSTDOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOWSHIP
AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 2011 (DECLINED)
2010-2011
FORD FOUNDATION DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN STUDIES
2010-2011
VISITING DISSERTATION SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE, NORTHEAST CONSORTIUM FOR FACULTY DIVERSITY, HOST CAMPUS: NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY AND URBAN AFFAIRS
2010
SMITHSONIAN LATINO MUSEUM STUDIES
PROGRAM FELLOW
2004-09
MACCRACKEN MULTI-YEAR FELLOWSHIP AWARD
FOR A PHD IN AMERICAN STUDIES
2004-07
NYU THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND
SCIENCE DEAN’S SUPPLEMENT FELLOWSHIP
2004-07
THE CLARK FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR LEADERSHIP IN NYC NON-PROFIT ORG. (DECLINED)
AWARDS
GRANTS
MAY 2013
BEST DISSERTATION PRIZE FROM THE LATINO STUDIES SECTION OF THE LATIN AMERICAN
STUDIES ASSOCIATION (LASA),
OCTOBER 2012
HONORABLE MENTION FOR BEST DISSERTATION FROM THE PUERTO RICAN STUDIES
ASSOCIATION (PRSA)
2018
GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS, GRANT FOR THE PUBLICATION OF MY BOOK, ABSTRACT BARRIOS
https://www.albany.edu/cas/86394.php
2016-17
“STRIVING FOR DIVERSE CITIES: DOCUMENTARY FILM AND DISCUSSION SERIES,” DIVERSITY TRANSFORMATION FUND AWARD (WITH PROJECT LEADER, PROF. CARLOS BALSAS), UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
2014
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES CONFERENCE TRAVEL FUNDS AWARD, UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
2010
SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION TRAVEL AWARD
FALL 2009
NYU GSAS STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT