Grants and Opportunities

A man walks through the palms on a palm oil plantation.

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies supports and administers a variety of research grants and programs relating to Latin America.

The talk from the “Transformative Agro-Ecology” workshop fills a conference room at Berkeley, March 2023. (Photo courtesy of the Latin American and Caribbean Socionatures Working Group.)

Event & Conference Cosponsorship Grants

Funding for UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, and researchers to organize conferences, lectures, and cultural events.

A crowd listens to speakers at a Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies event.

Event Series Grants

Funding for series of events organized by groups of faculty members or graduate students.  

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Field Research Grants

Funding to support UC Berkeley graduate students for travel and field-related expenses for brief periods of pre-dissertation field research in Latin America.

The Andes loom behind the modern buildings of the Santiago skyline. (Photo by alobos Life.)

Student Travel Grants

Travel stipends for Berkeley students to present at the Conferences for the Latin American Studies Association or Caribbean Studies Association.

Teachers listen to a UC Berkeley expert as part of the ORIAS Speakers Bureau.

ORIAS Speakers Bureau

Funding for graduate students to share their academic interests with young audiences.

Guatemalan Language Instructors and a student stand in a row

Programa de Fellows en Pedagogías de Lenguas Indígenas

Support for Indigenous language instructors who teach at institutions around the US

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Research Working Groups

Funding for groups of UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students to gather regularly to discuss and share research on topics of mutual interest. 

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Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship

Funding for graduate students in the final stages of dissertation writing.  

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