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:
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Name |
Department and Degree |
Research Topic |
Country of Travel |
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BASILIO, Raul |
Anthropology PhD |
Visceral Waters: Exploring Cultural and Political Tensions Around Pollution in the Jacarepaguá Lagoon Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
|
Brazil |
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CAMPBELL, Devan |
Environ. Health Science PhD |
Determinants of black carbon exposure among pregnant women in four diverse countries: Results from the HAPIN Trial
|
Guatemala |
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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 |
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CRUZ, Lais |
Romance Languages MA |
The Concept of Freedon in Clarice Lispector’s Work from a Psychoanalytical and De (Colonial) Perspective
|
Brazil |
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DEL TORO ORAZCO, Wezddy |
Forestry PhD |
An Integrative Approach to Addressing Human-Jaguar Conflicts and Promoting Coexistence in the Brazilian Amazon
|
Brazil |
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GALYON, Katherine |
Romance Languages MA |
Gender Morphology in Quechua and Andean Spanish: Exploring Relationships between Gendered Language and Gender Ideology
|
Peru |
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LANGHORN, Gabrielle |
Anthro./ ICON PhD |
The Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Desertificación in Ceará, Brazil
|
Brazil |
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MARCIPAR, Iris |
Music DMA |
Articulation and Percussive Effects in Double Bass Performance
|
Argentina |
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UBIALI, Bruno G. |
Anthropology PhD |
What is Productive Land? Cultural Notions of Land in an Agricultural Frontier, Brazilian Amazon
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Brazil |