mei bowyer, MEd is an Urban Education doctoral student with a certificate in Museum Scholarship and Material Culture at the 四色AV 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, 四色AV of Maryland.
Dean鈥檚 Fellow, 四色AV 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. 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. "dis/re/member/ed." [Installation]. 四色AV of Maryland. [Confirmed, date forthcoming].
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 四色AV.
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