Nayive Gaytán is a Chancellor’s Fellow, CRE2 Graduate Fellow, and a Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis.
In 2021, she earned a B.A. in Spanish and History (with a concentration in Latin America and the Non-Western world) from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her senior honors thesis on regional tourism, an iconic cultural product, and the on-going construction of Mexican national identity was supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and the Halle Institute for Global Research.
Her future research interests include the representations of race, ethnicity, and class in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature and visual media, environmental history, and social movements.