Brian Montes is an Assistant Professor in Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College, City University of New York and founder and director of John Jay College’s faculty led study abroad program to the Mayz Zone (La Zona Maya) of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Professor Montes received his B.A. in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Cortland and holds a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.  His research, teaching, and writing are grounded in U.S. Latina/o/x Studies and Latin American Indigenous Studies, with emphasis in the field of Maya Studies, Critical Latinx Indigeneity and Critical Indigenous Studies. Other areas of specialization include Latin American and Latina/o/x social movements, memory, Critical Race Theory, indigenous rights, and identity formation. Professor Montes’ publications include “The Battle for Recollection: Maya Historietas as Art for Remembering War” in Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (2020) and The Paradox of Miles Morales: Social Gatekeeping and the Browning of America’s Spider-Man” in Mind the Gap: Latino Comic Books Past, Present and Future (2016). His current manuscript examines the memory of Yucatán’s Caste War from the perspective of the native indigenous Maya within the municipality of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in Quintana Roo, Mexico.