Thanks to the School of Arts and Sciences and Executive Dean Greenberg, for a second year CLAS was able to secure funds to support research-related activities for CLAS faculty affiliates and graduate students. Award Recipients and description of projects funded for 2011-2012:

• Mekela Audain, graduate student, History to conduct archival research in Mexico City
• Jorge Bravo, Political Science, to conduct research on whether, and how, the political attitudes of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are shaped by their past political experiences in Mexico.
• Brian Cramer, graduate student, Political Science to conduct research on economic inequality in Latin America
• Nydia Flores, GSE to assist with a service learning program in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Tatiana Flores, Art History and LHCS to travel to Venezuela for research on her second book, on art under President Hugo Chavez
• Daniel Goldstein, Anthropology for follow-up research on market vendors in Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Rocío Magaña, Anthropology to defray costs of air travel to Michoacan, Mexico, to give a public lecture, attend a conference, and conduct research on the relationship between border-related deaths and the Day of the Dead celebration in Michoacan.
• Kenneth Moss, graduate student, History for research on the art school Academia de San Carlos
• Marcy Schwartz, Spanport for continued research on public reading programs in Latin America
• Lance Thurner, graduate student, History to attend a conference and conduct dissertation research on Mexican popular culture
• Juan Pablo Vera Lugo, graduate student, Anthropologyto conduct predissertation research on human rights violations in Colombia
• Lauren Willis, graduate student, City and Regional Planning for research on informal urban development in Cali, Colombia