Conference Travel Grants

Applications are now closed

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The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies provides travel stipends for UC Berkeley students to attend and present at the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association or the Caribbean Studies Association Conference.

Overview

Travel stipend for presenters at the 2024 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association or the 2024 Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Conference. Funding Amounts: up to $1500 international travel stipends.

Eligibility:

UC Berkeley graduate students are welcome to apply.

Application & Review Process

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

Notes: LASA and CSA Conference Travel Grants are supported by the US Department of Education. All international travel plans must comply with Fly America requirements. For more information on Fly America, including exceptions, see here. 

2024 LASA and CSA Travel Grant Recipients

CLACS funded three students to present at the 2024 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association and the 2024 Caribbean Studies Association Annual 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 (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

CLACS funded three students to present at the 2023 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

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