2021 CLLAS Graduate & Faculty Grant Recipients

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

Graduate Grant Recipients

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 Awards

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”