Tinker Field Research Grant
Mural at the Biblioteca Lerdo de Tejada in Mexico City
The Tinker Field Research Grant supports master's, doctoral, and professional school students conducting preliminary fieldwork in Latin America or Iberia, providing them with the opportunity to establish professional and institutional contacts, assess research sites, and refine their projects. Financial support covers international airfare and in-country transportation expenses.
Awardees are selected from among all divisions and professional schools of the University of Chicago. Students returning from research trips advance scholarship on Latin America through presentations of their findings in the Center for Latin American Studies weekly Brown Bag colloquium.
Recipients of the Tinker Field Research Grant have enjoyed notable success in obtaining subsequent dissertation research support as well as placement in key teaching, research, and other professional positions.
This program is funded with the generous support of the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Applications for 2009 Tinker Field Research Grants are due to the Center for Latin American Studies by Friday, February 27.
2008 CLAS Field Research Grant winners
- Jorge Abril Sanchez
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
"Ghosts, Demons and Goblins: The Supernatural in the Spanish Golden Age"
Spain - Jonah Augustine
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
"Archaeology of Households and Domestic Space at Tiwanaku"
Bolivia - Maria E. Balandran-Castillo
Department of History
"Institutional policies of the post-revolutionary government to incorporate indigenous populations into the Mexican state through the Department of Anthropology (1917-1925) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Promotion"
Mexico - Matthew Barton
Department of History
"State Capacity and Regionalism in Brazil, 1850-1880"
Brazil - Ieda Bispo
Department of Music
"The Renascer Church in Sao Paulo and the Political Economy of Gospel Music"
Brazil - Lorenzo Caliendo
Department of Economics
"A counterfactual analysis of trade policy - The Uruguay Case"
Uruguay - Lauren Duquette
Department of Political Sciences
"Migrant Collective Remittances: Transforming Local Public Works in Mexico"
Mexico - Stuart Easterling
Department of History
"Politics, aesthetics, and the arts in Mexico City, 1940-1960"
Mexico - Timothy Gaster
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
"The Image of Japan in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature"
Spain - Anna Guengerich
Department of Anthropology
"Proyecto Jatanca archaeological site"
Peru - Amanda Hughes
Department of History
"Coffee Bureaus, Elites and the Production of States in Guatemala and Costa Rica"
Guatemala and Costa Rica - Mary Leighton
Department of Anthropology
"The New Indigenismo - Conflicting Responses to Archaeology in Aymara Communities"
Bolivia - Jessica Lester
Latin American Studies
"Home Bodies: Recognition of Difference in Racially Ambiguous Households in Costa Rica"
Costa Rica - Jenna Leving
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
"The Self-Image of the Revolution in the Literature of the Cuban Diaspora"
Cuba - Romina Malandrucco
Department of History
"Rural Social and Economic Transformation, Jalisco 1930-1980"
Mexico - Erin Lindsey McKay
Latin American Studies
"Dairy and Development in the Dominican Republic"
The Dominican Republic - David Pacifico
Department of Anthropology
"Preliminary Field Investigations of Sector B at El Purgatorio"
Peru - Novia Pagone
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
"Women Writing Essays: Jornalism and the Shaping of Contemporary Spanish Identity"
Spain - José Luis Ramos
Department of History
"Imperialism and Cooperation in US-Mexico Relations, 1934-1952"
Mexico - Jonah Rubin
Department of Anthropology
"Digging up the Past: The Controversy over whether to exhume Federico García Lorca"
Spain - Laurencio Sanguino
Department of History
"Railroad Recruitment Program between Mexico and the United States, 1942-47"
Mexico - Jennifer Schaefer
Latin American Studies
"Representations of Youth during Argentina's Last Military Dictatorship"
Argentina - Erica Simmons
Department of Political Science
"Resource Rebellion: Social Movements, Subsistence Resources and the Bolivian Water Wars"
Bolivia - Joseph Jay Sosa
Department of Anthropology
Brazil - Garry Sparks
Divinity School
"Xalqat B'e and Theologia Indorum: The Americas' First Theology"
Guatemala - LaShandra Sullivan
Department of Anthropology
Brazil - John Thomas
Department of Political Science
"Towards a broader theory of Afro-Latino mobilization in Latin America"
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