Miriam Hernández Medina’s (MLA II) Thesis: “Entre futuros” reimagines the fixed border on the Río Bravo between Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas. As the river shifted course, land disputes led to its channelization, leaving, since the 1930s, hundreds of cut-off meanders as “hydroghosts”—scars in both landscape and lived experience. These traces become a lens to argue that violent and rigid border-making fix an inherently fluctuating river landscape while erasing centuries of shared histories, memories, and identities.
