Student Research & Awards

The LAII stimulates Latin American research and scholarship by supporting students within the Latin American Studies program and from affiliated departments across campus. Funding may take the form of fellowships or scholarship for field research, advanced doctoral studies, or professional development at conferences.

Students at both undergraduate and graduate levels benefit from this interdisciplinary, cross-campus support.

WE FUNDED 7 STUDENTS

FROM ACROSS CAMPUS,

FACILITATING RESEARCH,

TRAVEL, AND STUDY

Each spring the LAII awards Field Research Grants (FRGs) to graduate students across campus who pursue research in Latin America.

FRGs provide graduate students an opportunity to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of Latin American languages, terrain, and cultures; to become familiar with information sources relevant to their studies; to conduct pilot studies and preliminary investigations that will inform their thesis or dissertation proposals; and to develop contacts with scholars and institutions in their fields of study.

M eghann C havez

History | Beauty and the Market: : Beauty Salons, Neoliberalism, and Female Political Action in Cold War Chile

C hristina L orenzatto

Anthropology | What Kind of People are Plants and Why Are They Important Interlocutors?” Personhood and Well-Being Among the Shipibo-Konibo of Peru

M ateus M e Lo dos s antos

History | Sounds Good: A Rhythmic History of Brega

i vonne r a M írez

Communication & Journalism | Roller Derby in Mexico as a Form of Social and Political Resistance

L eti C ia r ina L di s ouza

Spanish & Portuguese | Aging and Learning: Community-engagement and Self-efficancy in L2 Teaching to Elderly Students

F e L ipe r ojas v i LC hes

Earth and Planetary Sciences | Water vapor and volcanic species concentration on volcanic plumes by using a novel thermal infrared camera and drone based multiGAS

W hitney W agner

Latin American Studies | Cautividad: De/constructing Notions of Race and Ethnicity in Argentina, 1776–1852

LAII PhD Fellowships are highly competitive awards given to doctoral students across campus to support Latin Americarelated dissertation research and writing. The following students were awarded fellowships in spring 2022 or earlier for the 2022-2023 academic year.

• Josue Aciego | Anthropology | Are They Indians?”: Indigenous Erasure and Resilience in Western El Salvador

• Caitlin Ainsworth | Anthropology | Bird Management at the Margins: A Case Study from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico

• Elisabeth Baker | Spanish & Portuguese | Spanish-speaking children’s overregularization of irregular verbal morphology: The cases of Spanish second person singular preterit and irregular past participles

• Carter Barnwell | History | War of Position: The Battle for the Spanish Public Sphere, 1931-1939

• Daniel Clayton | Economics | Return Migration and Inequality in Mexico

• Valerio Di Fonzo | Anthropology | Examining the Practices of Eco-theology: A Study of Catholic Environmental Ethics in the Peruvian Amazon

• Jens Van Gysel | Linguistics | A Grammar of Sanapaná (Enlhet-Enenlhet) with Special Attention to Variation

• Daven Hobbs | Linguistics | Processes of Grammatical Simplification in the Development of Nheengatu

• Edrea Mendoza | History | Planificar es cuestión de querer”: Sex Education, Family Planning, and Women’s Reproductive Health in Cold War Mexico