Tinker Dissertation Completion Fellows

Mariana Calvo is a fifth-year PhD candidate from Mexico City in the Transnational, International, and Global History field. Her dissertation examines the role of private corporations as agents of colonialism in tropical and subtropical forests in Latin America and Africa. Her project is inspired by her previous work as a journalist in Colombia, where she covered a wide range of issues including the implementation of the 2016 peace agreement between FARC and the Colombian government and the environmental and humanitarian impacts created by the construction of Hidroituango, Colombia's largest hydroelectric dam project.

This work sparked her interest in environmental history...

Zaith Lopez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. His research interests include drug addiction and recovery, gender and sexuality with a focus on masculinities, cultural productions, and group dynamics in institutional daily life.

His research examines the formation and socialization of masculinities and therapeutics in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, particularly in private, residential recovery centers otherwise known as “anexos.” His dissertation, tentatively titled, “Rajándose: Institutional Drug Recovery in the US-Mexico Borderlands,” draws from 15 months of fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, life histories, and Mexican cultural productions to explore two main themes in such...