mei bowyer, MEd is a doctoral student in the College of Education at the 四色AV of Maryland with certificates in museum scholarship and material culture (MSMC) and digital studies in arts and humanities (DSAH). mei's research reimagines how expression, matter, and place teach, heal, and hold us.
2025-26. Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) Community Fellow, Cal State Fullerton.
2025-26. 1856 Project, Reparative Histories Social Justice Research Incubator Fellow, 四色AV of Maryland.
2024-25. Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) Fellow, 四色AV of Maryland.
2024-25. Dean鈥檚 Fellow, 四色AV of Maryland.
2025. Digital Humanities Summer Award, Cal State 四色AV Fullerton Department of History.
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. Mart铆nez-Rivera (Eds.), Routledge handbook of anthropology & folklore. Routledge.
Grants:
2025. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Summer Grant. Georgetown 四色AV x Mellon Foundation.
2025. Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Grant. DEFCON x Mellon Foundation.
2024. Arts for All ArtsAMPlification Graduate Student Research Grant. 四色AV 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 四色AV, Washington, DC.
2025. "sounding: dark matter." [Installation and Workshop]. 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