mei bowyer, MEd is a doctoral student in the College of Education at the University of Maryland with certificates in museum scholarship and material culture (MSMC) and digital studies in arts and humanities (DSAH). mei's research examines black ontology to reimagine how expression, matter, and place teach, heal, and hold us.
2025. Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow, Cal State Fullerton.
2025. 1856 Project, Reparative Histories Social Justice Research Incubator Fellow, University of Maryland.
2024. Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) Fellow, University of Maryland.
2024. Dean’s Fellow, University of Maryland.
2025. Digital Humanities Summer Award, Cal State University Fullerton Department of History.
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.
Presentations:
2026. Panelist, Panel: "Black epistemologies: The (re)construction of knowledge through food, art, and spirit." Avery Symposium, Charleston College, Charleston, SC.
2025. Presenter, Talk and Roundtable: "the black arts school." Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
2025. Presenter, Installation and Workshop: "sounding: dark matter." American Folklore Society, Atlanta, GA.
ENGL 101: Writing and Rhetoric
TLPL 252: Students, Schooling, and Communities
TLPL 251: Community, Learners, and Classroom Climate
TLPL 332: Arts Integration in Elementary Classrooms
TLPL 481: Embracing Diversity in the Classroom Community