Maria has been accepted  for the Goizueta Fellowship with the University of Miami for June and July 2024. This fellowship supports research at the Cuban Heritage Collection, one of her dissertation's primary sources.

She has also been appointed Smithsonian American Art Museum's inaugural Audrey Flack Short-Term Fellow for August 1-30, 2024. This fellowship allows her to be in DC for a month to research the Smithsonian collections related to her research.