2021 CLLAS Graduate & Faculty Grant Recipients

CLLAS announces its 2021-22 graduate and faculty grant recipients. They are:

Summer Research Grant Awards

Marina Penalosa (Romance Languages)
An Intellectual Field in Tension. The Other Borges
David Peña (School of Art and Design)
Ecotone

Field Research Grants in Latin America

Alejandra Pedraza (Global Studies)
Womanhood, remittances, and COVID-19: Insights from a migrant-sending community in rural Mexico
Elizabeth Sotelo (Romance Languages)
Beyond Gender: Inequalities and Invisibilities Among Female Literary Chroniclers in Peru and Mexico
Magela Baudoin (Romance Languages)
Poetry and Popular Song in Matilde Casazola and Violeta Parra: The Journey of the Seed
Marena Lear (Comparative Literature)
Revolutionizing the Revolution: Cuban New Media and Independent Cinema

Faculty Latinx Studies Seed Grant

Daniel Gómez Steinhart (Cinema Studies)
Cross-Border Hollywood: Production Politics and Practices in Mexico

Faculty Research Seed Grant

Maria Fernanda Escallón (Anthropology)
“Becoming Heritage: Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Black Cultural Heritage in Colombia”

3/9/23: Creating Californios: Masculinity and Localized Liberalism in Mexican California, 1800-1850, 3:30-4:30pm, location: EMU Diamond Lake Room

3/10/23: Faculty Grant Information Session, 12-1pm, location: Remote

4/13: Graduate Student Research Colloquium, 330-5pm, location: Gerlinger Alumni Lounge

6/1: Undergraduate Awards Ceremony, 4pm, location: TBD