Dr. Américo Mendoza–Mori is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in literary, linguistic and cultural studies. His research focuses on Latin American, U.S. Latinx, and hemispheric Indigeneity. At Harvard, he has launched the Quechua Initiative on Global Indigeneity.
Mendoza-Mori’s work has appeared in a variety of academic journals and publications, has been presented at the United Nations, and has been featured in The New York Times, Library of Congress, a TEDx talk, BBC, NPR, Remezcla. He received his B.A. from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in Lima (Peru), and has a Ph.D. from the University of Miami, Florida. Currently, Mendoza-Mori serves as an advisory board member of the community organizations Kuskalla Abya Yala and Foundation for Bolivian Artists, and has served as an Executive Committee member of the MLA’s Association of Language Departments (ALD).
Mendoza-Mori has taken on innovative leadership roles: Faculty Director of Harvard’s Latinx Studies Working Group, founder and coordinator of the University of Pennsylvania’s Quechua program, co-founder of The Quechua Alliance, and co-founder of the Thinking Andean Studies international conference. He has been a cultural consultant for theater and film, including Paramount Pictures’ movie Dora and the Lost City of Gold in 2019. Additionally, he has been involved in educational and community-based initiatives in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and the United States.