mei bowyer, MEd is an Urban Education doctoral student at the University of Maryland. Her art and research is grounded in black-indigenous feminism and critical, creative technologies, reimagining the epistemological and material functions of multimodal storytelling.
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. "grounding: a black-indigenous feminist imagination." [Talk]. Black Women Studies Association, virtual symposium. [Confirmed].
2026. "dis/re/member/ed." [Installation]. University of Maryland. [Confirmed].
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.
TLPL 252: Students, Schooling, and Communities
TLPL 481: Embracing Diversity in the Classroom Community