Field Research Travel Grantees
CLAS supports Stanford graduate field research in Latin America.
2022-23
Christian Robles-Baez
Research: THE MAKING OF A WORLD MARKET FROM THE SOUTH: COFFEE IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY BRAZIL
Location: Brazil
Annie Obernoster
Research: Searching for roots. The role of community agroecology farms for Latinx communities
in San José, California
Location: San José, California
Katja Schwaller
Research: Unequal landscapes of digital capitalism – Investigating the relationality between neighborhoods in Mexico City and the Bay Area in times of remote working policies of Silicon Valley tech companies
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Michelle Ha
Research: Early Twentieth Century Korean Indentureship on Yucatecan Haciendas
Location: Mérida, Yucatán
Cristian Soler
Research: Curating Dehumanization in the Age of Hyper-globalization:
Approach to Treating with World Latinx Artistic Practices
Minah Choi
Research: “Mapping socio-environmental mobilizations in Argentina’s Paraná Delta”
Location: Argentina
Sergio Sanchez Lopez
Research: Social and Ecological Values of Colombian Peatlands
Location: Colombia
Jameelah Morris
Research: “Contesting Colombia’s Paradise: Youth, Violence, and the Struggle for Black Life Across Generations”
Location: Colombia
2021-22
Jaime Landinez Aceros
Research: The Uses of Biodiversity: Technoscience and Post-Conflict Aspirations in Colombia
Location: Colombia
Esteban Salmón Perrilliat
Research: The administration of impunity: An ethnography of criminal prosecution in Mexico City
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Luísa Genes
Research: The role of dispersal and recruitment limitation in the recovery of tropical secondary forests
Location: Costa Rica
María de la Luz Daniel
Research: Consumers' literacy and decision-making: The case of the private health insurance market in Chile
Laura Menendez Gorina
Research: “From Houses to Ruins: Narratives of Homes in Modern Barcelona and Havana”
Location: Havana, Cuba
2019-20
Alan Chávez-Arroyo
Research: Conflict and Queerness –The Effect of Armed Conflict and Policy on the LGBT
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Eda Benites
Research: Forensic Anthropology Training in Waukesha County Medical
Location: Wisconsin, U.S.A
Jessica Cordiglia
Research: QuechuaStudies/LanguageRevitalization
Location: Lima, Peru
Tyler McFadden
Research: Green deserts or conservation opportunities: pollinator conservation and sustainable management in Chilean timber plantations
Location: Valdivia, Chile
Rolando Garcia Miron
Research: Judicial Independence and the Challenges from Charismatic Populism: A Case Study of the Mexican Supreme Court
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Suzanne Ou
Research: How does soil microbial community from different land use histories affect regeneration of tropical forests?
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
Elizabeth Prosser
Research: Identity development and integration in Chinese-Peruvians and Japanese-Peruvians
Location: Lima, Peru
Pablo Seward Howard
Research: Migrant Becomings:Communal Horizons and the Double Bind of Vulnerability in Chile Latino
Location: Santiago, Chile; Antofagasta, Chile
2018-19
Jaime Landinez Aceros
Research: Latin American Summer School on Social Issues (LASI) Chile 2019
Location: Santiago, Chile
Claire Maass
Research: The Lives and Living Conditions of Enslaved Africans and Afro-descendants in the Central Coast of Peru During the Late Colonial Period
Location: Peru
Tyler McFadden
Research: Green deserts or conservation opportunities: pollinator conservation and sustainable management in Chilean timber plantations
Location: Valdivia, Chile
Valentina Ramai
Research: Latin American Summer School on Social Issues (LASI) Chile 2019
Location: Santiago, Chile
Grace Eliana Alexandrino Ocana
Research: Rights to a Heritage City: Working-Class Citizens, Urban Heritage and Conservation in Lima, Peru
Location: Lima, Peru
Gabriela Oppitz
Research: Em terras trópico-americanas: For an Archaeology of the Nonidentity in the Lowlands of South America
Location: Brazil
Weronika Hanna Tomczyk
Research: Pre-dissertation Fieldwork and Preparations in Peru: Andean Zooarchaeology
Location: Peru
Edgar Franco Vivanco
Research: Strategies of Indigenous Resistance and Accommodation in Colonial Yucatan
Location: Mexico
Tinker Graduate Field Research Grant
Jaime Landinez Aceros
Research: Preliminary fieldwork for the Ph.D. Research Proposal “Ecologies of War in Colombia. Landscapes of Dispossession, Toxicity and Care”
Location: Colombia
Arjuna Dibley
Research: Creating a Climate for Change? Carbon Pricing and Long-Term Policy Reform in Mexico
Location: Mexico
Daniel Hernandez
Research: Ethnographic Fictions: From Naturalism to Transnaturalism in Cuban Literary Ethnography
Location: Cuba
Zait Lopez
Research: Borderland Addiction: Substance Abuse among Deportees in Tijuana, Mexico
Location: Tijuana, Mexico
Esteban Salmón Perrilliat
Research: Poverty and Injustice in Mexico City’s Urban Margins
Location: Mexico
Valentina Ramia
Research: The Measurement of Fear in Asylum Law: An Ethnography of Legal Evidence of Well-Founded Fear of Persecution in Ecuador
Location: Ecuador
Gemma Elizabeth Smith
Research: Understanding Multi-Level Participatory Governance in International Watersheds
Location: Mexico
Romina Wainberg
Research: Darkest Stones: The Impact of Long-Term Mining in Southeastern Brazilian Culture
Location: Brazil
2017-18
Elix Colón
Research: From Socialism to Sociality: Growing Old in Contemporary Havana
Location: Cuba
Izabel Costa da Fonseca
Research: Labor Market Returns to Higher Education in Brazil
Location: Brazil
Rachel Engstrand
Research: Investigating the Effects of Gold Mining on Soil Health and the Potential for Ecosystem Recovery
Location: Peru
Tyler McFadden
Research: Effects of Exotic Timber Plantations of Keystone Species Interactions: Consequences for Maintaining Biodiversity in Southern Chile
Location: Chile
Santiago Pardo Rodríguez
Research: Social Legitimacy of Judges in Times of Transition: The Case of the Colombian Tribunal for Peace
Location: Colombia
Anna Toledano
Research: Collecting Independence: The Science and Politics of Natural History Museums in New Spain, 1770-1820
Location: Guatemala
Adela Zhang
Research: Dialogue and Development: Evaluating Institutional Conflict Resolution in Peru
Location: Peru
2016-17
Elinor Benami
Research: Brazilian Coffee Famers and Drought: Effects of Eco-Certification on Farmer Resilience
Location: Brazil
Marguerite DeLoney
Research: Cartographies of Belonging: Decolonial Explorations into the Making of Place with the Community of Portobelo
Location: Panama
Claire Maass
Research: History of African Diaspora in Peru from an Archeological Perspective
Location: Peru
David McMahon
Research: Soil Nutrients and Sustainability in Brazilian Eucalyptus Forestry
Location: Brazil
Grace Ocana
Research: Contested Metropolis: Lima’s Urban Heritage as the Perpetuation of Historical Structural Violence
Location: Peru
Jeffery Smith
Research: Impacts of Tropical Land Use on Anthropod Biodiversity: Implications for Food Webs and Ecosystems
Location: Costa Rica
