mei bowyer, MEd is an Urban Education doctoral student with a certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture at the University of Maryland. mei's research examines how knowledge is made through engagement with materials, modes, and embodied practices, focusing on black-indigenous epistemologies and ways of knowing.
Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) Fellow, University of Maryland.
Dean’s Fellow, University of Maryland.
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow, Cal State Fullerton.
2024. Hands-In-Clay Scholarship, Baltimore Clayworks.
Liu, R.Z., Conley, C., Johnson, A.C., bowyer, m., and Ramirez, G. (forthcoming). The stories of our communities and the storytellers who tell them: The case for critical race folklore studies." In Z. You & M. Martínez-Rivera (Eds.), Routledge handbook of anthropology & folklore. Routledge.
Grants:
2025. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Summer Grant. Georgetown University x Mellon Foundation.
2025. Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Grant. DEFCON x Mellon Foundation.
2024. Arts for All ArtsAMPlification Graduate Student Research Grant. University of Maryland, College Park.
Projects:
2026. "dis/re/member/ed." [Installation]. University of Maryland. [Confirmed].
2026. "grounding: a black-indigenous feminist imagination." [Talk]. Black Women Studies Association, virtual symposium.
2025. "the black arts school." [Talk and Roundtable]. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Georgetown University.
2025. "sounding: dark matter." [Installation and Workshop]. American Folklore Society, Atlanta, GA.
Students, Schooling, and Communities
Embracing Diversity in the Classroom Community
Communities in Research
Academic Research
Writing and Rhetoric