Overview
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies provides funding for Berkeley ABD graduate students completing their dissertation writing.
This fellowship is available for Berkeley ABD graduate students who are in the final stages of their PhD dissertation writing to help them complete projects on Latin American or Caribbean Studies (broadly defined). Latin Americanists and Caribbeanists from all disciplines are welcome to apply. To be eligible to apply, you must have one finalized dissertation chapter and a robust draft of a second chapter already written.
Funding amount: A stipend of $3,500. Funds will be disbursed by June 1.
Application & Review Process
To apply for funding, please submit that includes the following information:
- Complete the google form with basic information about your dissertation: https://forms.gle/ovksJVSTmU6mb7M97
- In the form, upload a one page abstract of your dissertation topic
- In the form, upload one completed chapter of your dissertation
Recipients in Prior Years
2025 Summer Dissertation Fellows
| Name | Program | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Juan Campos | Political Science | The Politics of Police Reform and Organized Crime |
| Andres Julian Caicedo Salcedo | Environmental Science, Policy, and Management | Caring for Palm Trees Amid Bud Rot: The Racialized and Gendered Politics of Plant Health and Assisted Pollination in Colombian Oil Palm Plantations |
| Kate Cullen | Energy & Resources Group | Climate change, drought, and water access in Santiago, Chile: a critical approach to climate impact assessments |
| Jesús Gutiérrez | Sociocultural Anthropology | Quilombo Mnemonics: Metamorphosis and Multiplicity in an Afro-Brazilian Imaginary |
|
Adriana Ramírez |
Sociology | “De Aquí y De Allá”: Young Return Migrants’ (Re)Integration in Mexico |
2022 Summer Dissertation Fellows
| Name | Program | Dissertation |
| Bruno Anaya Ortiz | Rhetoric |
From Campesinos to Indigenous Peoples, A Shift in the Mexican State’s Post-Colonial Self-Critique |
| Mônica Carvalho Gimenes | Spanish & Portuguese | Bodies on the Border: Feminicide and Feminist Resistance in the Southern Cone and Brazil |
| Antonia Mardones Marshall | Sociology | Who counts as Black? Classification Struggles and the Legal Recognition of Afrodescendants in Argentina and Chile |
| Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque | History of Art | Art, Civility, and Religion in the Amazon |