Center for Latin American Studies announces Stanford-Tinker faculty funding recipients, 2021
Through the generous support of the Tinker Foundation, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Stanford University is pleased to announce the recipients of three recently established funds.
Stanford-Tinker Faculty Research Fund
Stanford-Tinker Emergency Fund
These funds aim to enhance Stanford faculty scholarship and student engagement and to continue contributing to the generation of knowledge and learning about Latin America.
Stanford-Tinker Faculty Research Fund
Rodolfo Dirzo
Project Title: The Emerging Challenges of Land Use Change in Latin America
Nicole Hughes
Project Title: Stages of History: New World Spectacles and the Theater of the
World
Beatriz Magaloni
Project Title: Bringing an Innovative Brazilian Youth Agency Program to Mexico
Stanford Tinker Seed Fund
Zephyr Frank
Project Title: Urban growth, informal housing and the production of inequality in Latin
America
Saad Gulzar
Project Title: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Affect Who Runs for Office?
Catherine A. Heaney and Gabriel García
Project Title: Sustainable access to water and the well-being of residents of San Nicolás
Yaxe, a rural community in Oaxaca, Mexico
Stanford-Tinker Emergency Fund
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros
Project Title: Crowdsourcing statistical models and forecasting
social and political determinants of COVID-19 mortality in Mexico and Latin America
Judith Frydman
Project Title: Mechanisms and Regulation of Protein Biogenesis in the Cell
Beatriz Magaloni
Project Title: Ongoing research and instructional and outreach activities on criminal governance and citizen trust