Brandon Combs was Born and Raised in Oklahoma City. Played basketball for all four years of undergraduate academic career at Oklahoma City University. Graduated from Oklahoma City University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts, and from University of Central Oklahoma in 2024 with a Master of Arts. My research covers the mix-racial histories of colonial Latin America, with an emphasis on a series of paintings created to depict the social hierarchy of those of mixed-racial blood called casta paintings.