Photo by Amy Lasater in 2009 while in Peru on a summer research grant
CLACS is excited to announce the recipients of this year’s Tinker Field Research Awards and the CLACS Summer Research Grant Awards.
Pending funding, the NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies offers an annual competition for Tinker field research and CLACS summer research grants. Graduate students in all NYU schools and programs may apply for assistance with summer research in Latin America and the Caribbean for periods ranging from two to twelve weeks. M.A. candidates may research master’s theses or Major Projects; Ph.D. students may carry out preliminary research for dissertations.
The following students come from a range of departments across NYU, and we are pleased to be able to support their research projects in the countries listed. You can find more information on the CLACS website. Please stay tuned to the CLACS blog, as summer research grant winners will be contributing stories from the field. Congratulations!
Tinker Summer Research Grant Recipients
| Name | Affiliation | Project Title | Country |
| Rachel Brookes-Ames | CLACS, MA | Planting Empowerment: Business as the Solution for Ecological Regeneration and Social Change? | Panama |
| Lee Elizabeth Douglas | Anthropology, PhD | Memory and Human Rights Museum mediating memory politics to Santiago’s Youth | Chile |
| Lee Ann Evans | CLACS, MA | Los que Viven en la Costa: A Study of Racialization and Exclusion on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic | Dominican Republic |
| Jason Farbman | CLACS, MA | From Cochabamba to Washington: Translating Struggle from Quechua/ Amayra to Spanish to English | Bolivia |
| Emma Kreyche | Social & Cultural Analysis, MA | Growing Conflict over Metallic Mining in El Salvador | El Salvador |
| Evelyne Laurent-Perrault | History, PhD | Honour, Gender and Blackness in Spanish America: From Slavery to Citizenship, Contestations of hegemony and Afro-descendents’ ideologies during the 19th Century in the Province of Caracas, Venezuela | Venezuela |
| Amy Lasater | Anthropology, PhD | Potato Science and National Identity in Lima, Peru | Peru |
| Johanna Lenkner | Linguistic Anthropology, PhD | Examining representations of Barcelona’s immigrant communities in municipal government training | Spain |
| Kaitlin McNally-Murphy | Performance Studies, PhD | The Social and Spatial Organization of Terror, Survival and Healing | Chile |
| Hyejin Nah | Anthropology, PhD | Saving an Indian Face on Facebook? Computer mediated linguistic practices and Ethnic identity performance | Chile |
| Andrew O’Reilly | CLACS, MA | Ways in which young boys in Antioquia use the sport of cycling | Colombia |
| Mariana Pardes | CLACS, MA | Battles over Public Space in Buenos Aires, Argeninta: A Case Study of Murga Porteña | Argentina |
| Anna Reidy | Ethnomusicology, PhD | Place, History and Musicality in the Festival Internacional de Musica y Danza | Spain |
| Karla Paola Reyes | CLACS, MA | Expanding Citizenship with Education: Indigenous Education in Mexico under Cardenas | Mexico |
| Justino Rodriguez | History, PhD | Blacks and the labor movement in Cuba, 1918-1945 | Cuba |
| Carlos Rojas | Spanish, PhD | Study of autobiographical texts related to violence in Colombia | Colombia |
| Ashley Roseberry | CLACS, MA | Transforming Tradition: Uses of Yerba Mate in Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| Jonathan M. Square | History, PhD | Prisoners’ Understandings of the law, role of scriveners in prisoner letters and race, color and ethnicity in Brazilian carcereal punishment | Brazil |
| Jonathan Toner | Global Affairs, MS | Bridging the gap between Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Microfinance in Guatemala | Guatemala |
| Maria Piedrahita Trimble | CLACS, MA | An Actor’s Dialogue: Negotiating Development in Huancayo, Peru | Peru |
CLACS Summer Grant Recipients
| Name | Affiliation | Project Title | Country |
| Shira Klein | Hebrew and Judaic Studies & History, PhD | Italian Jews in Argentina | Argentina |
| Omar Ramadan | CLACS, MA | Translating Insha’Allah to Ojala: Illuminating the Expression of Puerto Rican Muslim Identity Through Hip Hop Art | Puerto Rico |
Jen Lewis
Assistant Director, CLACS
