DRCLAS Awards Research Travel Grants

Summer Research Travel Grants were awarded to eight Harvard undergraduates who plan to do honor theses on Latin American related topics and to 25 graduate and professional school students to conduct research in the region. Funds were provided by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Arango Fund, the Byrnes Fund, the Fuller Fund, the Fundacion Mexico en Harvard, the Hammond Fund, the Hildreth Fund, the Lehner Fund, the Peggy Rockefeller Fund, the Griefen Fund, and the Santo Domingo Fund.

Undergraduates:

David Edeli, Social Studies, (Ecuador), Land Tenure Projects in Ecuador
Magdalena Edwards, Social Studies, (Chile), Pablo Neruda and Raul Zurita: 20th-Century Political Poets in Chile
Aron Fischer, Social Studies, (Guatemala), Intellectual Property Rights
Halbert Jones III, History, (Spain, Mexico), Spanish and Mexican Responses to U.S. Expansionism in the 1850s
Emma Phillips, Anthropology, (Cuba), The Relationship Between Conceptions of Time and Economic Change in Cuba
Pedro Pimentel, Social Studies, (Dominican Republic, Haiti), Dominican Citizenship
Erica Simmons, Social Studies, (Mexico), An Analysis of the Institutions Created to Investigate the
Environmental Effects of NAFTA Along the U.S.-Mexican Border
Stanley Wei, Social Anthropology, (United States), Latino-Targeted Pediatrics at the Boston Medical Center

Graduate/ Professional School Students:

Gabriel Aguilera, Government, (Mexico), Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization
Gerardo Aldana, History of Science, (Mexico), Mayan Astronomy
Susan Antebi, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Mexico), Grotesque Economics: Freaks and the Circus in Contemporary Spanish American Literature
Jose Manuel Castillo, Graduate School of Design, (Mexico), Mexico City: Urbanisms Informal
James Fitzsimmons, Anthropology, (Guatemala, Honduras), Classic Maya Mortuary Behavior at Piedras Negras and Copan
Margaret Freedson-Gonzalez, Graduate School of Education, (Guatemala, Mexico), Bilingual Education Program Implementation
Jennifer Furin, Medical School, (Peru), Grassroots Responses to Lack of Health Care in Peru
Karina Galperin, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Portugal), Negotiating Submission: Conversos, Genre and Gender in the Early Modern Iberian Literature
Julie Gerschick, Kennedy School of Government, (Bolivia, Honduras), Microfinance as a Tool of Economic Development
Jeremy Greene, Medical School, (Bolivia), An Ethnography of "Noncompliance" in Urban Bolivian TB Patients
Daniel Gutierrez, History, (United States), Social Class, Stratification, Conflict and Popular Politics in Post-Independence Mexico
Gustavo Merino-Juarez, Public Policy, (Mexico), Fiscal Federalism and the Policy Process: Basic Education Decentralization in Mexico
Diego Miranda, Government, (Argentina, Brazil), Federal Institutions, Political Coalitions and Economic Reform in Brazil and Argentina
Santiago Morales-Rivera, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Colombia), Violence and Disenchantment in Contemporary Theater of Colombia
Aaron Navarro , History, (Mexico), Cedillo Revolt/Evolution of PRI/Telmex
Kathleen O'Connor, Anthropology, (Brazil), Brazilian Candomble
Maria Isabel Oliver, Graduate School of Design, (Brazil), The Architecture of Four Italian Emigres in Brazil: Rino Levi, Daniele Calabi, Lina Bo Bardi and Gian Carlo Palanti
Anadelia Romo, History, (Chile), Development of the Welfare State in Chile
Marveta Ryan, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Dominican Republic), African Heritage and National Identity in Dominican Poetry
Bryan Spencer, School of Public Health, (Mexico), Long-Term Sustainability and Impact of Impregnated Bednets in Malaria Control
William Su‡rez-Potts, History, (Mexico), Mexican Legal History c. 1867-1952
Michael Tomz, Government, (United States), Sovereign Commitments: The Political Economy of International Debt (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia)
Mercedes Trelles, Fine Arts, (Argentina), Latin American Art, 1950-1970
Keja Valens, Comparative Literature, (Mexico), Mexican Lesbian Literature in Context
Guilherme Werneck, School of Public Health, (Brazil), Epidemiology of Visceral Leishmaniasis