CLACS is pleased to announce that we have award SGRF fellowships to 14 students from across campus.  The SGRF fellowship program consists of four awards, Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants, Whitten Fellowships, Love Fellowships, and Kilby Fellowships.  Matching support is provided by the Graduate College, LAS, and the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies and awards support graduate student research in Latin America.    More information about the SGRF Fellowship Competition can be found here.

Tinker Field Foundation Research Grant Awardees

• Abbing, Jackie (Anthropology) - Emergent Activist Possibilities Authoritarian El Salvador. 
• Migotto, Larissa (Political Science) - Navigating the Political Landscape: Exploring the Impact of National-Level Polarization on Local Elections in Brazil.
• Moura, Celio (Geography) - The Deterritorialization of Urban Communities as a Public Policy of Social Exclusion: The Case of the Fishing Communities of Bode, Recife (Brazil)
• Morales, Daniela (Urban Planning) - Contesting Enviromental Assessment System in Chile.
• Strocchia, Ilaria (Spanish & Portuguese) - Rethinking the Urban as a Space of Liquid Modernity: The Case of Mexico City.
• Wang, Yifan (Anthropology) - "The World is a Garden" - Classic Maya Environmental-Human-Animal Relationships.
• Bell, Kainen (Information Sciences) - Understanding the Impact of Surveillance Technologies on Afro-Brazilian Communities. 
• Fernandes, Luisa (Urban Planning) - Reframing Urban Sustainability through the Perspective of Socio-Economic Insurgent Practice.
• Barros, Octavio (CLACS) - A Decade of Lei de Costas in Brazil: Analysis of its effectiveness. 

Kilby Fellowship

• Grisales, Claudia (Informatics) - (Making) Peasants Count: A Case Study of Rural Community Informatics towards Alternative Just Futures in the Colombian Amazon.

Love Fellowship

• Giacolone, Margie (Anthropology) - Dissident Languages and Politics of Care in Bolivia.

Whitten Fellowship

• Wong, Adrian (Institute of Communications Research) - A Policy of Unprecedent Mutilations in Every Day Work; Reorientates in Labor, Inequality, and SMEs in Chile.
• Perez-Astros, Daniel (Spanish and Portuguese) - Nostalgic Testimonies: Post-Dictatorship and Trauma in Brazil and Venezuela.