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 ways of knowing to reimagine how expression, matter, and place teach, heal, and hold us.
2025-26. Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow, Cal State Fullerton.
2024-25. Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) Fellow, University of Maryland.
2024-25. Dean’s Fellow, University of Maryland.
2024. Hands-In-Clay Scholarship, Baltimore Clayworks.
Liu, R.Z., Conley, C., Johnson, A.C., bowyer, m., and Ramirez, G. (2026). 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. "Black epistemologies: The (re)construction of knowledge through food, art, and spirit." [Panel]. Avery Symposium, Charleston College, Charleston, SC.
2025. "the black arts school." [Talk and Roundtable]. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
2025. "sounding: dark matter." [Installation and Workshop]. American Folklore Society, Atlanta, GA.
TLPL 251: Students, Schooling, and Communities
TLPL 481 : Embracing Diversity in the Classroom Community
ENGL 101: Writing and Rhetoric