2015 Grant Recipients
Summary of Graduate Grant Projects
- Theresa Gildner, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, Abstract: Lifestyle change, hormone levels, and parasitic disease risk among the Shuar in Ecuador—This study examines how hormone levels and economic change influence parasitic infection by comparing rural and urban areas with respect to testosterone profiles and parasite load as part of the Shuar Health and Life History Project. The results will clarify associations between lifestyle change, hormone levels, and parasitic disease risk and will also help target public health strategies and produce knowledge that will be used to help alleviate the physical suffering of participant communities.
- Julia Gómez, PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Abstract: Latin American Iconicities of Absence: A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Mirtha Dermisache’s “Unreadable” Books—Gómez will visit Argentine conceptual artist Mirtha Dermisache’s book archives in Buenos Aires. “Her ‘unreadable’ books allow us to bridge the study of Latin American artistic and cultural expressions to the concrete, empirical situations that give rise to literature. To engage her work, I draw from cognitive processes described by cognitive science and extend these considerations to hybrid visual and poetic forms. My approach helps to explain how viewers’ perception of the unmarked space in Dermisache’s book productions stimulates the socially located, embodied mind toward a subsequent interpretive response—one that distinguishes Latin American conceptual writing’s tenets from those stemming from North American practices.”
- Ricardo Valencia, PhD candidate, School of Journalism and Communication (Media Studies), Abstract: Who’s telling the ‘crisis’? Examining Latino and Non-Latino sources in journalistic coverage of immigrant children on the U.S. border—This research will examine the journalistic coverage of the flow of immigrant children in U.S. newspapers.
Summary of Faculty Collaborative Research
- June Black (JSMA), Carlos Aguirre (History), and Stephanie Wood (WHP), Abstract: Art and Human Rights in Latin America—This project seeks to examine how artists have responded to human rights abuses in Latin America and along the border between Mexico and the U. S. during the 20th and 21st centuries. The project will eventually include an exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) scheduled to be on view from September 2016 through September 2017 with related public programming; a UO course (to be offered during the 2016–17 academic year); related films during the Cinema Pacific film festival (spring 2017); and an edited volume with a website for additional digital content.
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- Thiago Castro: Endangered Amazon Language
- Charlie Hankin: Havana Hip Hop
- Kathryn Miller: Immigration and Gendered Violence
- Faculty Grant: Assessing the experiences of Latino high school students in Oregon
- Faculty Grant: Study of dual language education programs
- Faculty Grant: Assessing the experiences of Latino/a students at UO
- 2013 Grant Recipients
- Feather Crawford: Power, Capitalism, and Race: from Creek Country to the Florida Borderlands, 1765-1842
- Collin Eaton: Traditional Buildings in the Age of Block
- Amy Price: Beyond the Beauty of a Dozen Roses: Implications of Free Trade on Women in Colombia’s Cut Flower Industry
- Brandon Rigby: Representations of the “Other” and the Work of Poet Urayoán Noel
- Jimena Santillán: Inhibitory Control in the Bilingual Brain: Testing the Bilingual Advantage Hypothesis
- Erin Beck: Impacts of Education in Guatemalan Women’s Microcredit Programs
- PCUN Documentary: Farmworker Testimony and Collaborative Research
- 2012 Grant Recipients
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- 2011 Research Projects
- The Impact of Microfinance on Women’s Empowerment in Bolivia
- Unpacking Ethnotourism: Mapuche Struggles, “Development with Identity” and Tourism in South-central Chile
- The Political Economy of Land Conflict in a Transborder Oaxacan Community
- Huerto de la Familia
- Juventud FACETA and UO Researchers Collaborate to Investigate Links between Racism and Health among Latinos in the Eugene/Springfield Area
- 2010 Grant Recipients
- 2010 Research Projects
- Julia Ridgeway-Diaz: “Tracking Health and Stress in the Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia”
- Lindsay Naylor, “Harnessing Multiple Movements: The Intersection of Fair Trade and the Zapatista Movement in Chiapas, Mexico”
- René Kladzyk: Pathways and Fences: Gender, Violence, and Mobility in the Paso del Norte Region of the U.S./Mexico Border
- Anna Cruz: “After the Uprising: Gender Roles Among Oaxacan Teachers Post-2006 Uprising”
- Bussel, Mendoza, Olivos & Tichenor: Assessing Community Leaders’ Views on Immigrant-Community Relations
- Sandoval, Bernstein, & Lopez: Sustaining Latino Small Businesses in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon
- 2010 Research Projects
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