Alhelí Harvey

CLALS Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-2026)

 Alhelí Harvey earned her PhD from the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2025) where her research and teaching focused on Latinx cultural landscapes, visual culture, and connections between art and urban space. Her dissertation focused on art and architecture in the development of “enchantment” in twentieth and twenty- first century New Mexico’s tourism industry. Her work has been published in the peer reviewed Journal of Urban History (“Other Worlds Just Like This One: Enchantment at Meow Wolf’s ‘House of Eternal Return’”),and public venues such as  Intervenxions, Zocalo Public Square, and Public Books. 

Term:

August, 2025 to August, 2026