Congratulations to the 2019 LALS Graduate Student Field Research Grant Award Winners!

Congratulations to the 2019 LALS Graduate Student Field Research Grant Award Winners! Here is a list of the exciting and provocative projects that LALS has funded:

 

LALS GRADUATE STUDENT FIELD RESEARCH GRANT 2018-2019

Name

Department

 

Project Title

 

Advisor

 

Award

 

Jeremy Gallion

English

Chicanx Migrant Testimonios: Sound, Space, and Digital Media

Jennifer Ponce de León

500

Gillian Maris Jones

Anthropology and Africana Studies

No End to Aftermath: Blackness and Being in the Wake of Slavery, Imperialism, and Atlantic Hurricanes

Deborah Thomas

500

Marlen Rosas

History

Recording Resistance: Indigenous Activists' Archives and Power in Highlands Ecuador

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear

250

Atenea Rosado-Viurques

Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division, GSE

Migratory Journeys of Central American Migrant Children

Kathleen Hall

250

Pablo Aguilera del Castillo

Anthropology

The Social Life of Risk: The Cultural Production and Translation of Risk in the Context of Developing Infrastructure in the Yucatan Peninsula

Nikhil Anand

500

Dill Dustin

Hispanic and Portuguese Studies

La novela experimental: el feminismo y el regionalismo de la Península de Yucatán

Jorge Téllez

500

Wingo Scott

Political Science

Toward a Unified Logic of Development Finance

Avery Goldstein

500

Alexandra Brown

Department of Romance Languages: Spanish

Workshop, Spaceship, Telepathy or Text: Exploring the Production and Development of the Contemporary Cuban Science Fiction Short Story and Novel

Ericka Beckman

500

Charlotte Morris Williams

Anthropology

Remembering What We Cannot See: Heritage and Oral Histories of Huancavelica, Peru

Richard Leventhal

500

Ethan Alexander Plaue

English

Art, Action, and Autopoesis:  Linking the Art of CADA with the Philosophy of Maturana and Varela in Santiago, Chile

Heather Love

250

Veronica Brownstone

Hispanic and Portuguese Studies

Surplus Consciousness: Labor and the Politics of Violence in Contemporary Central American Cultural Production

Ericka Beckman

250

Lenin Lozano Guzman

Hispanic and Portuguese Studies

Retelling the Tale of Argentina Northwest: Framing and Expanding Andean Cultures

Ericka Beckman

250

Isaac  Gabriel Salgado

Political Science

Politics in the Time of Race

Anne Norton

250

Good luck to all of the participants on their summer research endeavors! We hope everyone has a productive and successful summer.