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Travis Torres Thompson was raised in Taos, New Mexico. He is a woodworker and carver, having built cabinetry and traditional furniture at shops in Taos and Seattle, Washington. He holds a BA from the University of New Mexico with a double major in Anthropology and Native American Studies and is currently the Native American Collections fellow at the Center for Southwest Research, where he assists with various archival projects and generating new culturally appropriate models of managing archival content. His research is focused on community archives, Chicanx comics, and nuclear culture – looking at the ways the effects of uranium and nuclear testing in Nuevomexicano, Navajo, and Pueblo communities has/has not been portrayed in art and storytelling. He is currently working on writing and illustrating a horror comic about the nuclear industrial complex in New Mexico.

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Research Topics

Land-based Knowledge Systems | Running | Chicanx Comic Books | Comic Studies | Community-Driven Archives | Critical Mystery Studies | Monster Studies | Nuclear Culture