About the Field Research Grant
Research Supported
The CLAS Field Research Grant supports master's, doctoral, and professional school students conducting preliminary fieldwork in Latin America, providing an opportunity to establish professional and institutional contacts, assess potential research sites, and refine the dissertation project proposal.
Who should apply?
Award recipients are selected from among all divisions and professional schools of the University of Chicago. Applicants must be degree-seeking graduate students currently enrolled at the University of Chicago.
Benefits and Requirements
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.
Financial support may be used towards international airfare and in-country transportation and living expenses. Travel for the 2013 grant must be completed by December 1, 2013. Recipients of the CLAS 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.
Support
This program is funded with the generous support of the Center for Latin American Studies and the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Chicago. For more information on how you can help support the program, click here.
The application for the 2013 CLAS Field Research Grant is CLOSED. Please check back this page or subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates on our application process.
2013 CLAS Tinker Field Research Grant recipients
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Nicholas Carby-Denning | Anthropology Ecuador Preserving the "Good Life," or Blackmailing the World? Negotiations of Value and Obligation in Ecuador's Rainforest |
Carlos Cisneros | Linguistics Panama Syntax-Semantics Investigations in Buglere |
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Ebenezer Concepción | Romance Languages and Literature Cuba Constructing Contemporary Literary Production: Reinaldo Arenas and Sexuality in Cuba |
Emilio de Antuñano Villareal | History Mexico Social Science and the Mass City: Mexico City, 1932-1958 |
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Savannah Esquivel | Art History Mexico Chooreographing Nahua-Christian Experience in the Mexican Monastery |
Karma Frierson | Anthropology Mexico No hay gente de color aqui, sino alla: examining the rootlessness of La Tercera Raiz in Veracruz, Mexico |
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Christopher Grant | Anthropology Haiti Forging the Nation: Craftsmen and the Building Arts in early 19th-century Haiti |
Sebastian Helipern | Ecology and Evolution Costa Rica, Peru Linking Landscapes: Can Primary Consumers Mediate Aquatic-Terrestrial Ecosystem Subsidies in Neotropical Watersheds? |
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Jade Hill | Latin American Studies Argentina Gender and Militancy: Men in the Search for Argentina's Disappeared |
Laura Horton | Comparative Human Development Guatemala Development, Disability and Personhood in the Guatemalan Mayan Town of Nebaj |
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Ben Jalowsky | Latin American Studies Paraguay Loyalty and Legacy: Composing Chaco War Significance in Paraguay |
Erin McFee | Comparative Human Development Colombia Memory and Forgiveness in Post-Conflict Colombia |
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Erin McFee | Comparative Human Development Colombia Memory and Forgiveness in Post-Conflict Colombia |
Jack Mullee | Anthropology Brazil, Argentina Techno-Politics and Translation in the Southern Cone: TH eSubways of Buenos Aires & Sao Paulo |
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José Juan Pérez Meléndez | History Brazil Colonization in Imperial Brazil: Three Case Studies in the Makin gof a Modern State, 1817-1872 |
Ana Sanchez-Rojo | Music Spain Music and Enlightenmen in Late 18th-Century Spain |
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Adam Roth Singerman | Linguistics Brazil Researching the Tupari Language of Rondonia, Brazil |
Tom Stewart | Biology and Evolution Ecuador Adaptation, Adipose fins, and Amazonian Catfishes |
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Maria Welch | Music Brazil In Living Memory: Guarani Sound Practices as Embodied Presence in Modern Brazil |
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Questions about the CTFRG application and granting process should be directed to CLAS Student Affairs Coordinator Jamie Gentry at (773) 702-8420 or jagentry@uchicago.edu.