Announcements

 

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is now accepting applications for the Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship for the 2010-2011 academic year. Pending funding from the US Department of Education, the fellowship will award a subsistence allowance of $15,000 and tuition support of $18,000 to one graduate student. Interested applicants should submit academic transcripts, letters of recommendation, and a personal statement to Susan Hirsch at Campus Box 1866 by May 15, 2010. Detailed application instructions and additional contact information are available here.

 

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the Tinker Field Research Grants for Graduate Students for Research in Latin America and Iberia. Fourteen graduate students received funding for short-term field research. The recipients are:

  • Nicholas Carter, Department of Anthropology, for excavations in Guatemala.
  • Stephen Chambers, Department of History, for his project "The American State in Cuba: The Business of Cuba and the Monroe Doctrine."
  • Peter Klein, Department of Sociology, for the study of the impact of regularization of land title on small scale farmers and peasants in the Brazilian Amazon.
  • Alex Knodell, Department of Archaeology and the Ancient World, for archaeological research conducted in the Petén Region of Guatemala.
  • Thayse Leal Lima, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, for the study of the selection and promotion of cultural products in Brazil.
  • Joshua MacLeod, Department of Anthropology, for ethnographic research in Guatemala.
  • Michele Mericle, Department of History, for the study of the phenomenon of autoviudas (self-made widows) in Mexico.
  • Sarah Newman, Department of Anthropology, for the analysis and interpretation of a terminal classic period deposit at the ancient Maya site of El Zotz in Guatemala.
  • Ezio Neyra, Department of Hispanic Studies, for research in  Buenos Aires and Havana on the material culture of modernization at the turn of the 20th Century.
  • Omar Pereyra, Department of Sociology, for the project "Urban Transformation and Communities: Trends towards Segregation and Integration."
  • Geoffrey Shullenberger, Department of Comparative Literature, for the study of psychoanalysis & literature in the Rio de Plata Region in the first half of the 20th century.
  • Ana Marie Tribin, Department of Economics, for the project " Consejos Comunales in Colombia: a political and propaganda tool to remain in power or a successful way to expand government presence in marginalized regions?"
  • Felipe Valencia, Department of Hispanic Studies, to explore why poetic introspection is so skewed in the self-annihilating contexts of Counterreformation and imperial Hispanic culture.
  • Charlotte Whittle, Department of Hispanic Studies, for travel to Buenos Aires to study avant garde poetry written in South America in the first half of the twentieth century.

 

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will announce the recipients of the Craig M. Cogut Dissertation Fellowship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies for 2010-2011 shortly.