Event Description
Presentation of the research findings from Berkeley graduate students who received the 2024 Tinker/CLACS Field Research Grant, awarded by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Tinker Field Research Grants support graduate student research about Latin America and the Caribbean at the pre-dissertation level. Funding is generously provided by the Tinker Foundation through the Field Research Collaborative Program and matched by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Speakers
| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | 11am-1pm | |||
| Presenter Name | Academic Department | Research Project Topic | Field Research Location |
| Lázaro Gonzalez (remote) | Film & Media | De sexilios y otras pajarerías: Queer Archiving in Caribbean Cinema | Dominican Republic |
| Daniela Paz Cruzat | Economics | Food Deserts and Market Integration: Evidence from “Imperfect but Good” Produce initiative in Chile | Chile |
| Carolina Wanderley Van Parys de Wit | History | In the making of Brazilian Eugenics: Criminality, Race, and Gender in Brazil (1890-1945) | Brazil |
| Yared C Portillo | Berkeley School of Education | Teaching son jarocho desde la raíz: Resources and strategies for teaching son jarocho | Mexico |
| Johanna Reyes Ortega | Political Science | Women in Transition: The Revolution Effect on Gender (In)Equality | Cuba |
| Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton | Energy and Resources Group | Preliminary field research for “Mining for a green transition: Social, political, and environmental dynamics around copper and lithium extraction in Chile and Argentina” | Chile, Argentina |
| Maria Isabel Chi-Chable | Ethnic Studies | Re/imagining a Mundo Maya: Maya rappers in the Yucatán Peninsula | Mexico |
| Sydney Moss | ESPM | Participatory Action Research: Biocultural Revitalization and RestorationPresenter Name Otherwise in the Andes Amazon | Peru, Colombia, Brazil |
| Adriana Gonzales (remote) | Energy and Resources Group | Caribbean Pastways to Climate Change Adaptation | Dominica, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe |
| Thursday, March 6, 2025 | 11am-1pm | |||
| Presenter Name | Academic Department | Research Project Topic | Field Research Location |
| Anna Closas i Casasampera | Political Science | Rethinking Agency: Strategizing with, through and around Asylum Law | Mexico |
| Minah Choi (video) | Energy Resources Group | Geographies of Waste in Paraná, Argentina | Argentina |
| Jesse Nazario (remote) | Ethnic Studies | Colonial relationality in The Land of Fresh Water from 1718 to 1989 | Mexico |
| Marco Antonio Badilla Maroto | Economics | Disrupting Education's Old Guard: The Labor Market Effects of Replacing Class Exams for Group Projects | Costa Rica |
| Maria Jose Navarrete Mendez | Integrative Biology | The Origin and Evolution of the acquisition of Guanidinium Alkaloids in Harlequin Frogs (Atelopus, Bufonidae) from Ecuador and Colombia | Colombia |
| Lily Medina Jara (remote) | Political Science | Outsorcing Coercion: The Emergence of State-sanctioned Militias in Colombia | Colombia |
| Thomas Abers Lourenço | Political Science | Organized Crime, Organized Punishment? State Violence and Prison Gang Governance in Urban Brazil | Brazil |
| Isaac McQuinn | Spanish and Portuguese | Beyond Devouring: Antropofagia in Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma | Brazil |
| franchesca araújo (remote) | Black Studies | El Estado Contra El Barrio | Dominican Republic |
| Luiza Bastos Lages | Ethnic Studies | Interview with Brazilian artist Maria Lira Marques and Visit to the Museu de Araçuaí | Brazil |