Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli was awarded a Santander Research Award to work with theatre, dramaturgy, dance and anthropology faculty and students at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. While there she guest lectured on the research methodologies that guide her forthcoming monograph She Is Cuba: A Genealogy of  Mulata Corporeality (Oxford University Press). Informed by methodologies ranging from dance and performance studies, feminist ethnography, historiography, performative writing and critical race theory, her monograph presents innovative ways to conduct research and write about performances and people from the global South. While at Universidad de Antioquia, she was also invited to be give one of the keynote lecture at their Second International Congress of Theatre Studies. Dr Borelli gave a lecture-performance in Spanish based on her book chapter on the mulata women who used to dance in taxi dance halls in Havana in the 1920s-1940s. Faculty at UdeA are interested in collaborating further on a possible distance MA programme and she is currently researching grant bid opportunities so she can develop scholarly work with U de Antioquia.