2020 CLACLS Pre-Dissertation Grant Awardees – Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies

Dear CLACLS Community,

Wishing you health and wellness, we are delighted to share with you the recipients of the 2020 CLACLS Pre-Dissertation Grant. We hope you have the opportunity to contact our students and congratulate them for their accomplishment!

Stephanie Zamora-Alvarado (Department of Environmental Conservation)
Project focus: Socio-environmental conflict, policy and governance for peace in Latin America

Christian Puma (Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures)
Project focus: The Ecuadorian diaspora in the U.S. and the impact of linguistic contact with English while in Ecuador on possible linguistic change.

Claudia Morales (Department of Anthropology)

Project focus: Experience and political activism of disabled migrants from Central America who have lost limbs during their migration journey through Mexico on the train known as “The Beast”

Marcelo Leal (Department of Political Science),

Project focus: Cybersecurity policies in Brazil and actors involved in the development of these policies in the Brazilian federal government

Mateo Hoyos-Lopez (Department of Economics)

Project focus: The relationship between trade liberalization and the evolution of income per capita in Latin America

Manuel Garcia (Department of Economics)
Project focus: How cities shape women’s decisions about paid and unpaid work in Chile

Given the current measures that limit travel and fieldwork across the globe, we have adjusted the due dates for this grant. Grantees will be able to make use of their funds until the summer of 2021, if not earlier and will present a report of their research early in the fall of 2021 at the latest. Any needed readjustment of this timeline will be communicated to the grantees and disseminated to our CLACLS community.

En solidaridad,
Laura & CLACLS Staff

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