Calls for Proposals
Graduate Student Grant Opportunities
Faculty Grant Opportunities
The Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) Announces Graduate Student 2021 Summer Research Grants
In order to encourage and support interdisciplinary graduate student research in the areas of Latinx and Latin American Studies, CLLAS announces a program for summer research support. We expect to award up to two summer grants for $1,500 each to advance research for either master’s or doctoral candidates. The award will support research-related activities carried out from July 1 through September 30, 2021.∗ We are especially interested in projects that link Latinx Studies or Latin American Studies with other disciplines. See criteria in the linked PDF: 2021 Call for Grad Proposals Final
The Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) Announces Graduate Student 2021 Field Research Grants in Latin America
CLLAS invites graduate students to submit proposals for field research in Latin America (Spanish or Portuguese speaking countries). We expect to award at least three grants for up to $3,300 each to advance research for either master’s or pre-dissertation doctoral candidates. See criteria in the linked PDF: 2021 Call for Tinker like Proposals Final
Graduate Student Application Deadline: 12:00 pm (noon), Friday, March 5, 2021 Applicants will be notified by April 2, 2021.
The Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) 2021 Seed Grant Award for Faculty in the field of Latinx Studies
CLLAS invites applications for research and/or creative projects in the field of Latinx Studies. We plan to award one seed grant of up to $5000;1the funds must be used during the 2021-20222 academic year (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022). This grant is specifically intended to support research or creative projects in Latinx Studies that fit within the CLLAS mission.
Projects that include collaboration between UO units, involve the wider Eugene/Springfield, Oregon, or Latinx communities/organizations/institutions in the U.S., or propose other forms of community engagement are welcome, but not required.
Criteria in the linked PDF: 2021 Seed Grant Award for Faculty in the field of Latinx Studies
The Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) Announces 2021 Faculty Research Seed Grant
CLLAS invites applications for its annual Faculty Research seed grant for funds to be used during the 2021-2022 academic year (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022). CLLAS plans to award one (1) grant of up to $5000.1 This grant is intended to support research that fits within the CLLAS mission, and has the potential to put Latinx and Latin American Studies in conversation.
Projects that include collaboration between faculty from different UO units, involve the wider Eugene/Springfield, Oregon, or Latin American communities/organizations/institutions in the U.S. or Latin America, or propose other forms of community engagement are welcome but not required.
CLLAS will also consider research projects that involve elements of community engagement.
See the criteria in the linked PDF: 2021 Faculty Research Seed Grant
Faculty application Deadline: 12:00 p.m. (noon), Friday, April 2, 2021
Applicants will be notified by May 7, 2021.
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- Calls for Proposals
- 2020 Grant Recipients
- Tinker Grantees
- 2019 Grant Recipients
- 2018 Grant Recipients
- 2017 Grant Recipients
- 2016 Grant Recipients
- 2015 Grant Recipients
- Grantee Archives
- 2014 Grant Recipients
- 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
- 2011 Grant Recipients
- 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
- 2009 Grant Recipients
- 2008 Grant Recipients
- 2014 Grant Recipients
Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies Gift Fund
Access the above link for giving to the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies Gift Fund. Online gifts may be made using the form available at this link; all gifts are processed by the University of Oregon Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization responsible for receiving and administering private donations to the University of Oregon.
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