Mel is a medical anthropologist, experimental ethnographer, and artist. Her work intersects health, justice, and art with a focus on immigrant/diasporic communities and identity.

Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo
Latin America and Latinx communities, Argentina, Identity, Memory, Ethnomusicology, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Literature, Visual & Popular Culture, Immigration/Transnationalism, Medical Ethics, Science, Difference, Human Rights, Resistance, Crisis, Neuroculture.