Tinker Graduate Field Research Award We are happy to spotlight below our 2022 Tinker Foundation-LACSI Graduate Field Research Award recipients. Travel awards are granted each spring semester to highly qualified University of Georgia graduate students from any discipline, interested in conducting preliminary graduate field research in the Spanish or Portuguese-speaking Latin American region (excluding Puerto Rico). All masters or doctoral students with an interest in carrying out graduate research in Latin America are encouraged to apply! We hope to post information about the 2023 competition early in spring semester 2023. Below is a list of our 2022 award winners: Name Department and Degree Research Topic Country of Travel BASILIO, Raul Anthropology PhD Visceral Waters: Exploring Cultural and Political Tensions Around Pollution in the Jacarepaguá Lagoon Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Brazil CAMPBELL, Devan Environ. Health Science PhD Determinants of black carbon exposure among pregnant women in four diverse countries: Results from the HAPIN Trial Guatemala COLLINS, Alejandro Forestry MS Effects of Climate Change and Land Tenure Status on Livelihood Resilience: An Exploratory Study with Peasant Smallholders in the Chaco Salteño Argentina CRUZ, Lais Romance Languages MA The Concept of Freedon in Clarice Lispector’s Work from a Psychoanalytical and De (Colonial) Perspective Brazil DEL TORO ORAZCO, Wezddy Forestry PhD An Integrative Approach to Addressing Human-Jaguar Conflicts and Promoting Coexistence in the Brazilian Amazon Brazil GALYON, Katherine Romance Languages MA Gender Morphology in Quechua and Andean Spanish: Exploring Relationships between Gendered Language and Gender Ideology Peru LANGHORN, Gabrielle Anthro./ ICON PhD The Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Desertificación in Ceará, Brazil Brazil MARCIPAR, Iris Music DMA Articulation and Percussive Effects in Double Bass Performance Argentina UBIALI, Bruno G. Anthropology PhD What is Productive Land? Cultural Notions of Land in an Agricultural Frontier, Brazilian Amazon Brazil
