Alia Reza

PhD Student

areza@umd.edu
 Hornbake South - 4105J
https://aliareza.weebly.com/

BIO

Alia’s work looks at the intersection between immigrant information access and museum studies. She focuses specifically on what South Asian immigrant communities in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area need from museums and museum programming and asks how museums can better serve those needs through exhibitions, outreach, and educational programming. Her work is heavily interdisciplinary, anti-colonial, and driven by sociopolitical discourse. She occasionally publishes in the up//root blog. She is an active alumn and former teaching fellow of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3). She conducts research through i3 on how players of color interact with cosmetic microtransactions — namely “skins” — in video games. She is also a doctoral mentor at EduSeed’s SisterMentors, where she mentors young girls of color in the DMV through their education journeys and into college.