Past Award Recipients
Research Grants
Anna Halliday '25 “Understanding Cultural Competence in Mobile Unit Healthcare for Migrant Workers in Maine” (advisor Irina Popescu)
Catalina Dezha '25 “Changing the Meaning of a Space: Chicano Identity in Boyle Heights” (advisor Jay Sosa)
Kaitlyn Brunner '25 “Extraction, Vaca Muerte and Argentine Literature” (advisor Carolyn Wolfenzon)
Andrea Rodríguez Garrido '24, “Decolonizing Early Childhood Education in Colombia” (advisor Irina Popescu)
Katie Draeger '24, “Community Based Conservation in the Galápagos” (advisor Gustavo Faverón)
Alondra Romero '24, “Restorative justice in Argentina” (advisor Javier Cikota)
Juliana Vandermark '24, “Controversy of the Crypto-Jews in New Mexico” (advisor Javier Cikota)
Ayana Opong-Nyantekyi '22: research in Colombia on "An exploration of Afro-Colombian culture, communities, and identities: Jorge Artel, Manuel Zapata Olivella, and Carlos Arturo Truque" (advisor Margaret Boyle).
Daniela Quezada '21: research in California on "First-Gen Mexican-American Intellectual and Development Disability Healthcare" (advisor Irina Popescu).
Kate Tapscott '21: research in Argentina working on "New Possibilities for Female Subjectivity in Southern Cone Literature" (advisor Sebastián Urli).
Edwin Sanchez Huizar '21: in Mexico on "The Cultural Production of Narcotics and War on Drugs" (advisor Nadia Celis).
Eliana Miller '20 in Argentina on "Los trucos debajo de la mesa: Juegos y simulacros en la cultura y literatura argentina" ("Life is But a Game: Deception and Simulacra in Argentine Literature and Culture") (advisor Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego).
Diego Grossmann ’20 in Bogotá, Colombia on “The Colombo-Venezuelan Border Through the Lens of the Colombian Press" (advisor Nadia Celis).
Elyse Veloria ’20 in the Dominican Republic to investigate dance. Her project is titled “Performing Identity: Bachata and Developing Dominicanidad” (advisor Adanna Jones).
Lauren Elliott ’20 in Texas on “Bilingual and Dual Language Programs: Language and Cultural Preservation in Texas” (advisor Margaret Boyle).
Elijah Koblan-Huberson ’20 in Guadalupe and Martinique on “French Antillean Identity: Across Lands and Seas” (advisor Hanétha Vete-Congolo)
Ellen Gyasi ’20 in Sao Paulo “Politics of Positionality: An Exploration into Black Personhood in Brazilian Universities” (advisor Jay Sosa).
Uriel Lopez-Serrano ’20 at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin, to study "Performing Sor Juana" on scholarly afterlife of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (advisor Margaret Boyle)
Carlos Holguin ’19 in Denver, CO and Milwaukee, WI, on how youth organizing against gun violence incorporate Latinx and African American experiences into calls for national and local gun reforms (advisor Marcos López)