José is an anthropology major whose research broadly tunes into the alimentary antagonisms of capitalist and colonial development. Aside from his Penn Humanities Forum Fellowship and Steering Committee position, he holds a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, a Penn Program in Environmental Humanities Fellowship, as well as a Seltzer Digital Media Award, and has received funding from the Penn Museum and Penn Anthropology department to conduct fieldwork in Washington State and Michoacán, Mexico. José’s ethnographic honors thesis (and PHF Mellon Fellowship) research, A Taste of Brown, proposes a synesthetic attunement to the experiences of Latin@ farm workers and migrants as well as their distant families and communities of origin. The project mobilizes audio, video, and GIS multimedia in favor of the embodied experimentality (affective and material) at play in Latin@ cooking over food reforms that fetishize particular foods or diets. He plans to pursue his interests in alimentation, decolonization, experimental ethnography, and fugitivity in graduate school.