Hannah Palmer

Hannah Palmer serves as primary graduate advisor, co-coordinates faculty and graduate grant competitions, and collaborates on other academic programming. She joined the Stone Center in 2019 as the Program Manager for Special Projects and later served as Assistant Director for Academic Projects and Programs. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While there, she served as Graduate Program Coordinator for the Institute for the Study of the Americas and Resident Director for the Yucatec Maya Summer Institute. Over more than a decade of work in higher education, she has developed courses focused on global literature, Latin American Studies, Spanish language, and intercultural communication. Her scholarly interests include cultural competency and intercultural education, critical Indigenous studies, gender and sexuality studies, and interdisciplinary and decolonial methodologies.