Rebecca J. Mendoza is a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. Broadly, Rebecca’s scholarship centers Indigenous philosophy, material religion, and ritual survivance among humans and Other-than-human entities (plants, animals, ancestors, museum materials etc.) in the Americas. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges ancient Mesoamerican materials and cosmovision with critical theory from Indigenous and Chicanx communities. She was a Summer Pre-Columbian Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, a Graduate Student Associate at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and is a 2023 Ford PreDoctoral Fellow.