LASA / CSA Support Mini-Grants

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies provides mini-grants for UC Berkeley students to attend and present at the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

Overview

Small stipends to attend the 2025 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in San Francisco or the 2025 Caribbean Studies Conference in St. Martin. Funding Amounts: $300 stipend.

Eligibility:

UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to apply. Students who are presenting at the conference will receive funding priority.

Application & Review Process

The application is closed. Questions can be directed to clacs@berkeley.edu.

2025 LASA and CSA Travel Grant Recipients

CLACS funded students to present at the 2025 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association and the 2025 Caribbean Studies Association Conference.

Name	Degree Program	Topic
Adriana Gonzales	PhD, Energy and Resources Group	Utopic Past-ways to Climate Change Adaptation Otherwise: Alternative Adaptation Imaginaries on the Island of Dominica (LASA)
Anna Palmer	PhD, Sociology	The Late Petro-state Amidst Climate Catastrophe from Guyana (CSA)
Bri Matusovsky	PhD, Anthropology	Living, Breathing, and Eating: Resilience on St. Kitts (CSA)
Britt Dawson	PhD, Anthropology	Faith and Future-Making: Muslim Migrants Navigating Displacement in Tijuana (LASA)
Christián González Reyes	PhD, Comparative Literature	Guatemaya en movimiento, o cómo se percibe la diáspora maya q’anjob’al en México en el trabajo de Gaspar Pedro González (LASA)
Coral del Mar Murphy Marcos	PhD, Spanish and Portuguese	Literatura puertorriqueña: Resiliencia y empoderamiento en un contexto de descolonización (LASA)
Cristina Mendez	PhD, Education	Mam Women Engaging Language Reclamation Practices through Digital Modalities (LASA)
Emily Thompson	PhD, Anthropology	Investigar y trabajar sobre las secuelas del conflicto armado peruano (LASA)
Gabriel Lesser	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	Taking marginal archival research literally: Discovering Brazil’s nineteenth-century gaming boom by looking at the edges of periodicals (LASA)
Henry Sales Hernandez	PhD, Education	La presencia del idioma Maya Mam en el Área Metropolitano de San Francisco (The presence of the Maya Mam language in the San Francisco Metropolitan Area) (LASA)
J'Anna-Mare Lue	PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering	Engineered Climate Risk: Using Flood Exposure Risk in Jamaica to Build a Case for Reparative Engineering (CSA)
Jair Jauregui Torres	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	Revista Latino-Americana at the Crossroads of Literature, Culture and Geopolitics (LASA)
Jose Miguel Alvarado	PhD, Comparative Literature	“Un mapa dentro de otro”: Choropoetics in Ruth Vargas Leyva’s Ciudades Visibles and Felicia (LASA)
Lazaro Gonzalez	PhD, Film and Media	Archiving Bodies in Exile: Queer Migrations and the Carnality of Memory (LASA)
Liam Seeley	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	Soiled Poetics: Coloniality and the Late-Modernist Brazilian Mud (LASA)
Lydia Millhon	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	A Concrete Precursor: Nicolás Guillén in 20th-Century Cuba and Brazil (LASA)
Maria Villalpando Paez	PhD, Energy & Resources Group	Collectivity in the Construction of Local Agrifood Systems. Peasant Women’s Agricultural Knowledge and the Traspatios in the High Mixtec Region, Oaxaca (LASA)
Miroslava Guzman Perez	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	Realidades desplazadas: Preservando la Cosmovisión Nahua en los poemas de Martín Tonalmeyotl (LASA)
Neena Albarus	PhD, Social Welfare	Trap Economics and Debt in the Caribbean: The Race to the Bottom (CSA)
Sandra Oseguera	PhD, Anthropology	Mujeres haciendo trabajo de campo en América Latina: Una conversación multidisciplinaria sobre las lecciones y los retos de poner el cuerpo en la región (LASA)

Previous Awards

2024 LASA and CSA Travel Grant Recipients

Name	Degree Program	Topic
Adriana Gonzales	PhD, Energy and Resources Group	Utopic Past-ways to Climate Change Adaptation Otherwise: Alternative Adaptation Imaginaries on the Island of Dominica (CSA)
Anna Palmer	PhD, Sociology	Forging Guyana’s Emerging Petrostate in a Climate-Conscious World (CSA)
Antonia Mardones Marshall	PhD, Sociology	Similitudes y divergencias en el proceso de institucionalización de una categoría afrodescendiente a partir de políticas estatales en Argentina y Chile (LASA)
Christián González Reyes	PhD, Comparative Literature	Construcciones mediáticas: el migrante centroamericano imaginado desde la vista mexicana (LASA)
Diego Ayala	PhD, Sociology	The Spanish Colonial Census and Multiracial Middle Classes in Mid-Nineteenth Century Cuba and Puerto Rico (LASA)
Emily Thompson	PhD, Anthropology	Uncovering, Recovering, and Putting it All Away: Hidden Photography Archives and Processes of Refusal in Contemporary Perú (LASA)
Gabriel Lesser	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	Labor, Race, and Form in Nineteenth-century Cuadros de Costumbres (LASA)
Irene Farah	PhD, City & Regional Planning	Beyond clientelism: Street vendor bodies as a form of territorial and political power (LASA)
Isabel Peñaranda Currie	PhD, City & Regional Planning	Politics of the Cadastre: Technical Framings for Redistribution in Bogota (LASA)
J'Anna-Mare Lue	PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering	Towards Reparative Engineering: Water Infrastructure and Climate Justice in Jamaica (CSA)
Karol Alzate Londoño	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	De Ney a Juan Ángel: Una historia del sujeto laboral afro-colombiano entre la esclavitud y la modernidad (LASA)
Patrícia Gomes	PhD, Performance Studies	“Os espíritos das minhas filhas”: Indigenous Art, Performance, and Feminist Movements in Brazil (LASA)
Priscila Coli Rocha	PhD, City & Regional Planning	Milícias Grileiras : An Assemblage of Three Trajectories - Death Squads, Land Swindlers, and Urban Social Movements (LASA)
Sandra Oseguera	PhD, Anthropology	Long-term Agricultural Practices and Cultural Persistence: The case of the Zapotec people of Talea de Castro, Oaxaca (LASA)

2023 LASA Travel Grant Recipients

Name	Degree Program	Topic
Jair Jauregui Torres	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	Museum of the Americas: La lectura ecfrástica de J. Michael Martinez sobre la pintura de castas novohispanas
Alejandra Decker	PhD, Spanish & Portuguese	“Un país metalifero”: A Culture of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Bruno Anaya Ortiz	PhD, Rhetoric	Conjuring a “Pueblo”: Legal Claim-Making and the Articulation of Political Subjects in Latin America