2024 Tinker Field Grant Recipients
Name | Program | Project | Location |
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Adriana Gonzales | PhD Energy & Resources Group | Colonial Caribbean Currents: A Comparative History of Caribbean Energy Systems | Puerto Rico, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia |
Anna Closas i Casasampera | PhD Political Science | Rethinking Agency: Strategizing with, through and around asylum law | Nogales, Mexico |
Carolina Wanderley Van Parys de Wit | PhD History | The making of Brazilian Eugenics: Criminality, Race and Gender in Brazil (1890-1945) | Florianópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Daniela Paz Cruzat | PhD Economics | Food Deserts and Market Integration: Evidence from “Imperfect but Good" Produce Initiative in Chile | Santiago, Chile |
franchesca araújo |
PhD African American Studies | The Future Belongs to the Deviant: black geographies at the limits of the nation in the Dominican Republic | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Isaac McQuinn | PhD Spanish & Portuguese | Beyond Devouring: Antropofagia in Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma | São Paulo, Brazil |
Jesse (Jesus) Nazario | PhD Ethnic Studies | Colonial relationality in The Land of Fresh Water from 1718 to 1989 | Mexico City, Mexico |
Johanna Reyes Ortega | PhD Political Science | Women in Transition: The Revolution Effect on Gender (In)Equality | Havana, Santiago, Camaguey, Cuba |
Lázaro González | PhD Spanish & Portuguese | Queer Archiving in Archipelagic Caribbean Cinema | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic; Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
Lily Medina Jara | PhD Political Science | Outsourcing Coercion: The Emergence of State-Sponsored Militias in Colombia | Antioquia, Cordoba, Norte de Santander, Colombia |
Luiza Bastos Lages | PhD Ethnic Studies | Interview with Brazilian artists Maria Lira Marques and Davi Jesus do Nascimento | Pirapora and Araçuaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Marco Antonio Badilla Maroto | PhD Economics | Switching from High-stakes to Low-stakes Evaluation: Evidence from a University-level Reform | San Jose, Costa Rica |
Maria Isabel Chi-Chable | PhD Ethnic Studies | Re/imagining a Mundo Maya: Maya rappers in the Yucatán Peninsula | Yucatán, Mexico |
Maria Jose Navarrete Mendez | PhD Integrative Biology | The origin and evolution of the acquisition of guanidinium alkaloids in Harlequin Frogs (Atelopus, Bufonidae) from Ecuador and Colombia | Santa Marta, Colombia |
Minah Choi | MA Energy & Resources Group | Afterlives of waste in the wetlands of Paraná, Argentina: a multispecies history | Paraná, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton |
PhD Energy & Resources Group | Chuquicamata copper mine, near Calama, Antofagasta, Chile; SQM lithium project, near San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile; Sales de Jujuy, near Susques, Jujuy, Argentina; Josemaría copper mine, near Pastos Largos, San Juan, Argentina | |
Sydney Moss |
PhD Environmental Policy & Management | Lima, Peru; Medellin, Colombia | |
Thomas Abers Lourenço |
PhD Political Science | Organized Crime, Organized Punishment? State Violence and Prison Gang Governance in Urban Brazil | São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Yared C Portillo |
PhD Education | Teaching son jarocho desde la raíz | Xalapa, Santaigo Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico |
2023 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
2023 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
2022 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
2022 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
Name | Program | Project | Location |
Kelsey Alford-Jones | PhD Energy & Resources Group | Exploring Avenues for Justice and Barriers to Accountability in Land and Environmental Conflicts in Guatemala | Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Andrés Julián Caicedo Salcedo | PhD Environmental Science, Policy, and Management | Glyphosate and Eradication in Colombia: Local Stories of Food and Reproductive Health | Bogotá (Cundinamarca) y Tumaco (Nariño), Colombia |
Juan Campos | PhD Political Science | Organized Crime, Anti-Police Violence, and Police Behavior: Observational and Experimental Evidence from Mexico | Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico |
Anaid Cardenas Navarrete |
PhD Integrative Biology | Ecosystem services provided by the black howler monkey in human-modified habitats | Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico |
Rebecca Cardinali | PhD Agriculture and Resource Economics | Long-Term Impacts of Online Sexual Education in Colombia | Bogotá, Medellín, and Barranquilla, Colombia |
Britt Dawson | PhD Anthropology | La Frontera Islámica: Building Religious Community at the U.S.-Mexico Border | Tijuana and Rosarito, Mexico |
Ritika Goel | PhD Political Science | Populism and Inequality in Brazil | Sâo Paulo, Brazil |
Lucy G. Hackett | PhD Agricultural and Resource Economics | Environmental markets and agricultural outcomes: Evidence from Chile | Santiago, Temuco, and Concepción, Chile |
Melina Marie Holder | MA Development Practice | Housing, Land, and Property Rights for Venezuelan Migrants in Perú | Lima and Madre de Díos, Perú |
Jose L Marrero Rosado | PhD Anthropology | Finding the Forgotten Ones: Search and Identification of an Unmarked Mass Grave in San Juan, Puerto Rico | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Alejandro Múnera | PhD Spanish and Portuguese | Queer Culture Under Dictatorship | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Vanessa Navarro Rodriguez | PhD Political Science | Fragmented Struggle: Contentious Politics & the Mapuche in Chile | Santiago and Temuco, Chile |
Maria Ochoa Villicana | PhD Spanish and Portuguese | Mexican Border Art: A feminine perspective | Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, and Piedras Negras in Mexico |
Tania Osorio Harp | PhD Architecture | Landscapes of Domestic Labor: An Architectural History of Asymmetric Relations in Mexico City | Mexico City, Mexico |
Isabel Peñaranda Currie |
PhD City and Regional Planning |
Informal and formal land markets, value and policy in Bogotá: A first exploration |
Bogotá, Colombia |
Alexandra Reep |
MA Public Policy | Lessons from a Traditional Colombian Food Market: What food flows in the Galería El Porvenir Market reveal about Cali & Colombia | Santiago de Cali, Colombia |
Deibi Daryin Sibrian |
PhD Environmental Science, Policy, and Management | El Salvador | |
Tiffany Taylor |
PhD Anthropology |
Mass Surveillance, Democracy, and the Open Internet in Latin America |
Remote Research |
Emily Fjaellen Thompson |
PhD Anthropology | Approaching afterlives of trauma through ordinary memory art in contemporary Peru | Lima, Junín, and Huancavelica, Peru |
Ilianna Vasquez |
PhD Spanish and Portuguese | Visions from the Margins: Recentering Sex Work in Colonial Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico |
Tessa Wood |
PhD Comparative Literature | Understanding the Legacies of Peripheral Literature in Brazil | Remote Research |
2021 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
2021 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
Name | Program | Project | Location |
Alejandra Decker | PhD Spanish & Portuguese | Building the Lettered City: Engineering & Literature in 19th Century Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico |
Irene Maria Farah Rivadeneyra | PhD City & Regional Planning | Urban governance and health conditions of street vendors in Mexico City | Mexico City, Mexico |
Emily Fjaellen Thompson | PhD Anthropology | When Words Fail: Exploring Embodied Memory in Peru | Lima, Ayacucho, Junín, Peru |
Valeria Ramírez Castañeda |
PhD Integrative Biology | Finding snakes in the Colombian Amazon forest: A collaborative endeavor | Leticia, Colombia |
Yesenia Valverde | PhD Environmental Science, Policy, and Management | Enriching the Agricultural Matrix: Farmer engagement in biological corridor projects in Costa Rica | San Jose, Costa Rica |
Ailén Vega | PhD Geography | Collaborative archival work and analysis of Munduruku resistance to gold mining in the Upper Tapajós River of the Brazilian Amazon | Brazil (Virtual) |
2020 CLAS Field Research Grant Recipients
2020 CLAS Field Research Grant Recipients
*click on the project name for more informationName | Program | Project | Location |
Marcos Antonio Cisneros | PhD Rhetoric | Art Collectivity | San José, Costa Rica (Virtual) |
Samantha Derrick | MA Public Health | Decolonizing Diets | Ciudad de México, México (Virtual) |
Jesús Alejandro García |
PhD Environmental Science, Policy, and Management | Past contested futures in the Magdalena River basin, Colombia: Political ecologies of hydropower development | Neiva, Yaguará, Hobo, Colombia (Virtual) |
Darius Gordon | PhD Education | Demanding the Devil Say Mass: Black Educational Struggle in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 1984-1989 | Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (Virtual) |
Gabriel Lesser | PhD Spanish and Portuguese | Ciudad de México, México (Virtual) | |
Angela Pastorelli-Sosa | PhD History of Art | Latinx Paper Cultures: Puerto Rican Solidarity, 1960s-1980s | San Juan, Puerto Rico (Virtual) |
Evan Patrick | PhD Environmental Science, Policy, and Management | Climate Vulnerability of Smallholder Agriculture in Chiquimula Department, Guatemala | Chiquimula, Guatemala (Virtual) |
2019 CLAS Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
2019 CLAS Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
*click on the project name for more information2018 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
2018 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
*click on the project name for more informationName | Program | Project | Location |
Michiko Arai | PhD Integrative Biology | Political Film in Latin America | Chile and Argentina |
Laura Belik | PhD Architecture History, Theory and Society | Concentration Camps in Northeast Brazil, 1915-1932 | Fortaleza and Senador Pompeu, Brazil |
Claire Boone | PhD School of Public Health | Improving Chile's Diet | Santiago, Chile |
Pascale Boucicaut | MA Folklore | Fences as Patrons of the Racist State | Panama City, Panamá |
Julia Flor Branco | MA City and Regional Planning | Adapting to Climate Threats in Aguascalientes | Aguascalientes, México |
Priscila Coli Rocha | PhD City and Regional Planning | Growing Informal Spaces in Brazil | Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçc and São Joao de Meriti, Brazil |
Stephanie Covarrubias | MPH GHE Environment, Health and Safety | Anthropology Training in Guatemala: Why Hapin? | Japala and Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Evan Fernández | PhD History | Race Beyond Borders: Japanese Migration to Chile, 1900–1950 | Santiago, Chile |
Lucy Gill | PhD Anthropology | Human-environment interaction in pre-Hispanic Lake Cocibolca, Nicaragua: a historical ecology approach | Zapatera Archipelago, Nicaragua |
Lesdi Goussen | PhD History of Art | Art and Resistance in Central America | Ciudad de México, México; Granada and Rivas, Nicaragua, and San José, Costa Rica |
Jimmy Mahady | MS Public Policy | Electric Vehicles and Environmental Justice in Mexico City | Distrito Federal, México |
Isaac Marck | Integrative Biology | Investigating Intercontinental Disjunctions in the Rock Daisies (Perityle; Asteraceae) | Santiago and Concepción, Chile |
Aaron Pomerantz | PhD Integrative Biology | How Does an Animal Become Invisible? | Gamboa, Panamá |
Adriana Ramirez | PhD Sociology | El Sueño Mexicano: Returning Migrant Youth’s Adaptation Experience in Mexico | Oaxaca, México |
Heather Regen | MS Public Policy | Prosperity or Precarity? Driving for Uber in Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
Francesca Rubino | MS Public Health | Finding a Drop to Drink in Guadalajara | Guadalajara, México |
Diana Ruiz | PhD Film and Media | Places of Memory in Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires and La Plata, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile |
Katherine Siegel | PhD Environmental Sciences, Policy, & Management | Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Agriculture | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Venecia Slotten | PhD Anthropology | Everyday Use of Plants in Prehispanic Costa Rica | Liberia and Tilaran, Costa Rica |
Emma Steigerwald | PhD Environmental Sciences, Policy, & Management | Invisible Imprints of Glacial Melt | Cordillera Vilcanota, Perú |
Alice Taylor | PhD Graduate School of Education | Practicing the Future: Brazilian Youth, Educational Aspiration, and Collective Justice | Pará, Brazil |
Robyn Taylor-Neu | PhD Anthropology | Angling towards Antarctica: A preliminary study of scientific "expedition" tourism in Ushuaia, Argentina | Buenos Aires and Neuquen, Argentina |
Caroline Tracey |
PhD Geography | Boundary Waters Between Mexico and the U.S. | Ciudad de México, México |
Levi Vonk | PhD Medical Anthropology | Central American Migration Through Mexico | Ciudad de México, Mexico |
Naomi Wilcox | MPH Public Health | Epidemiology of Zika Virus in Brazil: Zika infection during pregnancy and Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) | Niteroi, Brazil |
Jacob Wolbert | PhD Music | The Autoral Alternative Music Scene of Goiâna, Brazil | Goania, Brazil |
2017 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
2017 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
*click on the project name for more information2016 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
2016 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
*click on the project name for more informationName | Program | Project | Location |
Diego Arevalo | PhD Spanish & Portuguese | The Endless Colonization of the Amazon Forest | Popayán, Leticia and Puerto Nariño, Colombia |
Gabriela Borge | PhD Graduate School of Education | Intercultural Translation in Education: the case of Iknal at the Maya Intercultural University of Quintana Roo, México | Ciudad de México, José María Morelos, Chetumal and Mérida, México |
Levi Bridges | MJ Graduate School of Journalism | La Vida es un Carnaval- Understanding the experiences of Mexican Laborers Employed in the US Traveling Carnival Industry | Ciudad de México and Tlapacoyan, México |
Angela Castillo | PhD Anthropology | An unstable terrain for peace: illegal gold mining, socio-environmental conflicts, and ecological degradation in Colombia | Bogotá and Quibdó, Colombia |
Mario Castillo | PhD Anthropology | The Mexican Countryside, Past and Present | Ciudad de México and San Ildefonso Tultepec, México |
Betsabé D. Castro Escobar | PhD Integrative Biology | Can human selection of ethnobotanical plants enhance phenotypic variation? The case of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete) in Cuba & Dominican Republic | Havana, Cuba and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Marianela D'Aprile | MS Architecture | Progress through Erasure: The case of the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Patricio Dominguez | PhD Goldman School of Public Policy | Crime and the role of different actors of the criminal justice system in Chile | Santiago, Chile |
Elena Duran | PhD Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education | Impact of a Science and Technology After-School Workshop on Children’s Scientific and Engineering Identities - Cuenca, Ecuador | Cuenca, Ecuador |
Ignacio Escalante | PhD Environmental Science, Policy and Management | Tropical biology and ships: Animal behavior research with background whistles | Panama City, Panamá |
Shane Fallon | MPH Public Health | Diet, sugary drinks, and obesity in Peru | Trujillo, Perú |
Sophie Fitzmaurice | PhD History | Infrastructure and the Environment in Mexico | Cancun and Campeche, México |
Marcelo Felipe Garzo Montalvo | PhD Ethnic Studies | La Fiesta de la Tirana | Santiago, Chile |
Javier Jauregui | PhD Integrative Biology | The dwarves' houses in the forest of Central Chile | Santiago, Chile |
Craig Johnson | PhD History | Delving into the archives of the Latin American Right | Buenos Aires, Cordoba and Paraná, Argentina; and Santiago, Chile |
Christopher Lesser | PhD Geography | Social Ecologies of Brazil's Atlantic Forest | São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, Brazil |
Cristobal Madero | PhD Graduate School of Education | History, Education, and Conflict Resolution in Chile | Tirua and Santiago, Chile |
Nain Martinez | PhD Environmental Science, Policy and Management | The effects of climate and energy policies in the development of renewable energy in the Mexican power sector | Ciudad de México and Aguascalientes, México |
Esteban Mirón Marván | PhD Anthropology | Chol past ontologies: Social indigenous Archaeology in the region of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico | Distrito Federal and Palenque, Mexico |
Franklin Moreno | PhD Graduate School of Education | Honduras: Violence, Research and Young People’s Patterns of Thought | Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
John Mundell | PhD African Studies | Silences and Surveillance in an Authoritarian Archive: Researching disciplinary practices for homosexuality in the Brazilian Navy | Salvador and Rio de Janiero, Brazil |
Emily Pearman | MPH School of Public Health | Urinary Tract Infections in a slum community in Brazil | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Nicole Ramsey | PhD African American & African Diaspora Studies | Black cultural exchange and identity formations in Costa Rica | San José, Costa Rica |
Ruth Rouvier | PhD Linguistics | Miskitu Language Field Research Planning | Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua |
Valentina Rozas-Krause | PhD Architecture | Excavating Memory in Santiago and Buenos Aires | Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Naomi Schoenfeld | PhD Anthropology | Biomedical Innovation in Late Socialist Cuba | Havana, Cuba |
Becca Shareff | PhD Cognition and Development | Examining Experiential Science Education in Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial Program | Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
Ashley Smiley | PhD Integrative Biology | Comparative Fast Forward and Vertical Flight Trajectories in Colombian Hummingbirds | Bogotá, Colombia |
Chris Sullivan |
PhD History | Estate Management Under Crisis in Revolutionary Mexico | Ciudad de México, México |
Matías Tagle | MS School of Public Health | Assessment of Household Air Pollution in Paraguay | Santiago, Chile; Asunción, Paraguay and Guatemala City, Guatemala |
Carrie Tribble | PhD Integrative Biology | Sampling Bomarea tubers in Antioquia: A Preliminary Evaluation of Chemical Defense in Underground Storage Organs | Medellín, Colombia |
Elisa Ugarte | MA Graduate School of Education | Mother's Role Construction and Self Efficacy in Family School Relationships | Santiago, Chile |
Jose Vasquez-Carvajal | PhD Economics | Network of Firms and the Aggregate Economy: Evidence from Costa Rica | San José, Costa Rica |
2014 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
2014 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
*click on the project name for more informationName | Program | Project | Location |
Juan Pablo Atal | PhD Economics | Income Inequality and the Tax System in Chile | Santiago, Chile |
Hector Beltrán | PhD Anthropology | The Mexican Tech Startup Boom | Distrito Federal, México |
Diego Ponce de León Barido |
MS/PhD Energy and Resources Group | An Opportunity to Include People in Nicaragua’s Low Carbon Energy Transition | Managua, Nicaragua |
Christopher Carter | PhD Political Science | The Challenges of Mexican Elections | Distrito Federal, México |
Elizabeth McKenna | PhD Sociology | Politics and Protest (and Lack Thereof) in Brazil | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Emily Kearney | PhD Environmental, Science, Policy, and Management | Many flowers, few fruits: Pollen limitation in wild and cultivated Theobroma cacao | Quito, Ecuador |
Maria-Fátima Santos | PhD Sociology | Brazil’s Prison Reforms: Transforming Penal Systems and Democracy? | Vitoria, Brazil |
César Bowley Castillo | MA Latin American Studies | Dignidad Agropecuaria Nacional: The Rebirth of the Agrarian Movement in Colombia | Bogotá, Colombia |
2013 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
2013 Tinker Summer Field Research Grant Recipients
*click on the project name for more informationName | Program | Project | Location |
Pierre Bachas | PhD Economics | Access to finance and informality: The Mexican tax on cash deposits | Distrito Federal, México |
Katharine Burmaster |
MS/MD Joint Medical Program | Impacts of a Fair Wage Factory | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Gabriel Damasco do Vale | PhD Integrative Biology | Understanding the origin and the landscape dynamics of white-sand vegetation in Amazonia | Manaus, Brazil |
Aurora Fenney-Kleinfeldt | PhD Anthropology | Studying the Yucatec Maya Language | Mérida, Mexico |
Andrés García Molina | MA Latin American Studies | Yajé and the Harmonica: A Study in Sound and Ritual | Bogotá & Cali, Colombia |
Sebastian Griscti | PhD Spanish & Portuguese | The Unexpected Literary Archive | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino | PhD Integrative Biology | Tree Species Turnover in Western Amazonia | Francisco de Orellana, Ecuador; Iquitos, Perú |
Jevon Heath | PhD Linguistics | Yaminawa Language Documentation Project | Sepahua, Perú |
Anne Hoffman | MA Journalism | Abortion in Chile | Santiago, Chile |
Aaron Hyman | PhD History of Art | Rubens in a New World: The Role of Flemish Prints in the Transatlantic Spanish Empire | Cuzco, Perú |
Guillermo Jaimes | PhD Environmental, Science, Policy, and Management | Community Engaged Research in Salvador, Brazil | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Rose Kagawa | PhD Public Health | Adolescent Childbearing and Upward Mobility: Exploring the parenting experience of young mothers in a parent support program in Mexico | Distrito Federal, México |
John Landefeld | MS/MD Joint Medical Program | Un Salario Digno and Subjective Social Status | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Ana Alicia Levin | MS/MD Joint Medical Program | Alli Kiru: Oral Health and Food Practices Among Amazonian Kichwa Youth | Quito, Ecuador |
Suzanne Li Puma | PhD Rhetoric | Precarious Writing and Delicate Perception in the Visual Field, 1960-1980 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Andrea Marston | PhD Geography | The Other Side of Cooperation: Cooperative Mines in Bolivia | La Paz, Bolivia |
Ernesto Munoz Lamartine | PhD Public Policy | The Politics of Consumer Rights in Latin America | Santiago, Chile |
Gopal Penny | PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering | Discovering Research Opportunities in Quito, Ecuador | Quito, Ecuador |
Nicole Rosner | PhD Sociocultural Anthropology | Problematizing Socio-Spatial Development in the Margins of Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Samantha Rudolph | MS/MD Joint Medical Program | FRIDA: Forwarding Research for Improved Detection and Access for Cervical Cancer Screening in Tlaxcala, Mexico | Distrito Federal, México |
Geoffrey Taylor | PhD Anthropology | Archaeological Reconnaissance in Arequipa, Peru | Lima, Perú |
Julia Tierney | PhD City & Regional Planning | Governance Through Security: The Contested Remaking of Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Cristián Villalonga Torrijo | PhD Jurisprudence and Social Policy | The Rhetoric of Legal Crisis | Santiago, Chile |
Justin West | PhD Energy and Resources Group | Assessment of Multi-species Fodder Bank Cropping Systems to Improve on Farm Protein Production, Food Security, and Ecological Resilience | Villavicencio, Colombia; Lima and Iquitos, Perú; Salta and Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Moises Yi | PhD Economics | Social Interactions and Worker Productivity: Firm Level Evidence | Natal, Brazil |