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Guest In Podcasts
An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play.
Podcast, Nuevos Horizontes (published by New Books Network). Episode in Spanish. Hosts: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Jania A. Martinez, & Nicole M. Pecci-Zegri (Universidad de Puerto Rico- Mayagüez).
An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play. Podcast, New Books Network (December 8, 2023). Interviewer: Dr. Miranda Melcher (Kings College, London).
Indigenous Stories, Colonialism, and Play
Podcast, Salon B. (Dec. 2, 2021).
“That’s Advertainment!”
Growing Up 2000s. (Nov. 27, 2020). Host: Christopher Borroughs
“Serving Up the 2020 Youth Media Awards.”
Podcast, KidLit These Days. (February 6, 2020). Host: Matthew Winner
Barbie Sheroes.
Radio/Podcast, Knowledge@Wharton. (March 15, 2018). Host: Dan Loney
Interviews, Articles, News Citations, & Media Appearances
- Article, Building Our Own Barbie: A casual lecture series takes Barbie’s history seriously. Midbrow. (May 5, 2025). Author: Jessica Gallet
- Cited in News Media, Meet the huge community of Barbie collectors: ‘When people find out, they look at you like you’re from Mars. El País. (July 26, 2023). Author: Mariado Martínez.
- Cited in News Media, 6 things to know about Barbie as the new film sets box office records. PBS Newshour (July 24, 2023). Authors: Justin Stabley and Bella Isaacs-Thomas.
- Interview, Emily Aguiló-Pérez on her book An American Icon in Puerto Rico. CaMP Anthropology. (May 8, 2023). Author: Julia Perillo.
- Article, “Deconstructing Barbie” ENG 400: Barbie(and Dolls) in Girlhood and Feminism. The Quad. (April 6, 2020). Author: Madison Starinieri
- Article, Not Your Mother’s Barbie: How Mattel’s New Dolls Aspire to Inspire. Knowledge @ Wharton. (March 29, 2018).
- Article, “Latinx Read-In Exposes Penn State Community to Latinx Literature” The Underground. (November 10, 2017). Author: Adriana Lacy
- Article, “Barbie research is more than child’s play for graduate student.” Penn State News. (Sept. 29, 2015). Author: James Carlson