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Jessica Corona

Ph.D. Student
Jessica Vianey Corona
jessicacorona@arizona.edu
Research Areas
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Feminist Data & Archives
  • Transborder Digital Humanities
Jessica Corona is a first-generation Latina scholar pursuing a PhD in Information Science at the University of Arizona. Born and raised on the Ciudad Juárez El Paso border, she holds an Associate degree in Criminal Justice from El Paso Community College, a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish from Our Lady of the Lake University, and a master’s degree in Spanish with a focus on Digital Humanities from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She served as a Graduate Fellow with the Transborder Digital Humanities (TBDH) Consortium funded by the Mellon Foundation from 2023 to 2026.

Her research focuses on the creation and curation of a bilingual digital database using historical Spanish-language newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to document gender-based violence against Latina and migrant women in border cities in El Paso and San Antonio, Texas. Through digital methods, she examines how these cases were historically reported and framed in the press while recovering and making visible women's identities silenced in official archives.

She has collaborated on two transborder feminist projects, Geo-Testimonios Transfronterizos and Fuerza Feminista: Intimate Recovery and Memory Archives. These data-driven projects build transborder archives by documenting women’s experiences through literary metadata, oral histories, and personal, analog, and digital materials. Together, they use feminist approaches to transform narrative, spatial, and testimonial data into ethical and accessible archives that preserve the histories, knowledge, and resistance of women in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Jessica has co-authored two publications in Gender, Sexuality & Policy. The first, Digital Feminist Movements: The Feminist Struggle in the Americas (2024), examines how digital platforms have strengthened feminist activism across Latin America. The second, Border Women Literature & Feminist Cartographies: Student Approaches to Dataset Development for Gender-Based Violence Documentation (2025), highlights student-led approaches to building datasets on gender-based violence and the pedagogical potential of feminist cartographies.

As a first-generation transfronteriza scholar, Jessica is deeply committed to challenging and transforming how borderlands stories and experiences are documented, preserved, and understood, while contributing to social justice through feminist data and archival practices.