Past Grant Recipients
Spring 2024
| Recipient | Project |
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| Armando Vizcardo-Benites |
Examining Immigration Stories and their Access to Social Programs in a Transnational Context |
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Josefina Casper |
Streets of Expression: Unveiling Graffiti's Socio-Economic Impact in Buenos Aires |
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Anthony Grant |
Research in Service: A Caribbean Lens on Relationship Building for Future Studies |
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Julianna Lasky |
Research at the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City |
Spring 2023
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Danny Daniel Mollericona Alfaro |
Indigenous narratives and solidarity over the Isiboro-Secure road conflict in 2011 |
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Juan Jimenez Garcia |
Healthcare access among Hñähñu Indigenous communities in Hidalgo |
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George Kollias |
Political Boundaries and Frontiers between Ancient Maya Kingdoms of the Usumacinta River, Mexico |
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Anthony Ruiz |
Proyecto Yucatán |
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Jolecia Saunderson |
Mapping the Histories and Intersections of Hair in Colombia |
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Yura Yokoyama |
Between Two Currencies: Dollars, Bitcoin, and Marginalized Individuals in El Zonte |
Spring 2022
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Abigail Beckham |
“Is God Re-Creating Earth? Bahamian Christians’ Interactions with Climate Change”? |
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Alex Bazarsky |
“Excavation and Ground Verification of Lacanjá Tzeltal Post-LiDAR Analysis” |
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Zoe Lacroix |
“Behind the Scenes of Rastafarian Social Activism through Music” |
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Changhong Zhang |
“Ethnographic and Archival Research in China: What happens before the transfer of Chinese money and labor to Latin America”? |
Fall 2021
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Delaine Gneco De La Cruz | "Una raza encendida, negra, blanca y taína: the Dominican Republic" |
| Emilly Bischoff | "The Impacts of Gender on Stakeholder's Socio-Cultural Valuation of Mangrove Ecosystem Services" |
| Rynn Parrack | "Post-Pinochet Chile and Justice" |
Fall 2020/Spring 2021
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Isaiah Johnson | "Keystone of Revolution: Cuba and the Special Period"- Fall 2020 |
| Arlett Marquez | Improving Inclusivity in the LALS program: An Applied Research Project.” Fall 2020 |
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Simone Decker |
“From Family to Fair Trade: The Rise of Permaculture Farming in the Costa Rican Jungle.” Spring 2021 |
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Xuantong He |
“Far Away From Home: The Development of the Chinese Community in Chile”, Spring 2021 |
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Gabriela Mendoza |
“The Experiences of Latinx Parents with Pediatric Cancer Care: An Anthropological Approach”, Spring 2021 |
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Arantxa Ortiz |
“Driving Families Forward: At the Intersection of Work, Family, and Mobility”, Spring 2021 |
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Recipient |
Project |
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| Guillermo Caballero | "Untold Stories by Unheard Voices: Cross- Country Perspectives on Intersectoral Mobility Cost for Manufacturing Workers in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay" |
| Kathryn Dix | "Sharing Sustainable Cattle Ranching Practices in Petén" |
| Abby Miranker | "Photography in Cuba: Memory, Object, Body, Place" |
| Giselle Santillana | "The Decline of Mercados: Is San Luis Potosi, Mexico Losing its Sense of The Decline of Mercados: Is San Luis Potosi, Mexico Losing its Sense of Community?" |
Spring/Summer 2019
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Alejandra Bonilla | “Anti-Immigrant racism in the wake of Venezuelan and Haitian immigration in Chile.” |
| Emily Haney | “El Royal Pottery: Analysis and conservation of a royal Maya ceramic funerary assemblage at El Perú Waka’, Guatemala.” |
| Von Kollias | "Investigations at Lacanjá-Tzeltal, Chiapas, Mexico.” |
| Sam Leonard | "Defining Violences:Feminist Movements against Intimate Partner Violence in Argentina and the United States.” |
| Rachel Schneider | "Artist’s Paradise?: Contextualizing the Ancient Maya Graffiti found at Xunantunich, Belize.” |
| Max Seidita | "Household production and social integration at Yaxnohcah, Campeche, Mexico.” |
2018
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Abby Miranker | “Collective Art as a Political Tool: Havana, Cuba” |
| Jessica Leonard | “The Truth is in the Teeth: Exploring Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ancient Maya Diet in Northwestern, Belize” |
| Arlett Marquez | “Haiti and Dominican Republic: Divided by history, United by Everything Else” |
| Max Seidita | “Economic Integration on the Fringes of Political Authority at Flores Magón, Chiapas, Mexico” |
| Gabriel Sol Fontes | “The Madrina of Cuban Hip Hop: How an Exiled Black Nationalist Fostered the Havana Hip Hop Generation” |
| George Van Kollias | “Preliminary Investigations at Lacanjá-Tzeltal, Chiapas, Mexico” |
| Krysla Grothe | “Agricultural Technology Adoption and the Effects on Child Health Status in Bolivia” |
| Raffi García | “Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Annual Meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina” |
| Delande Justinvil | “Intermingled Identities: Discerning the Origins of Historical Belizean Remains” |
| Angela Mendez and Meng Diao | “Borderlinks Educational Experience Program: Brandeis Multifaith Chaplaincy” |
2017
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Francesca Bragg | “Pisa Farmacéutica: Medical Design & Manufacturing in Guadalajara, Mexico” |
| Aaron Goodwin | “Hearing the Changes: Afro-Cuban Jazz and Change in Cuban Society” |
| Natalia González | “‘Books Break Boundaries’ in Cusco, Peru – Internship with IFRE Volunteers” |
| Jessica Priestley | “Abetting ‘Illegality’: Navigating Competing Ethical Frameworks in Tijuana’s Nonprofit Communities” |
| Max Seidita | “Archaeological Investigations at the Site of Piedras Negras, Guatemala” |
| Joanna Spyra | “Feminist Perspectives on the Body: The Case of Zwi Migdal in Argentina” |
| Tiffany Nelson | “Advocacy for Women’s Rights and Equal Pay in Lima, Peru” |
| Leah Goldman | “Redefining Religion: Constructing Faith in Revolutionary Cuba” |
| Ledia Erkou | “Investigating Transnational Examples of the Use of Clothing as a Disguise in Early Modern Literature and Art” |
| Ned Littlefield | “How Does Police Deployment in Counterinsurgency Affect Subsequent Territorial Control?” |
| Doron Shapir | “Una isla en la isla” |
2016
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Ryan Collins | “When X Marked the Spot: (Re) Making Place and Transforming Social Dynamics Over the Development of Yaxuná, Yucatan, Mexico 1000 BCE to 300 CE” |
| Josh Freedline | “La Florida/Namman: Investigating a Locus of Politico-Economic Influence in the Classic Maya World” |
| Sarah McCarty | “Considerations of Contemporary Art Practices: Mexico City in Context” |
2015
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Ryan Collins | “When X Marked the Spot: (Re) Making Place and Transforming Social Dynamics Over the Development of Yaxuná, Yucatan, Mexico 1000 BCE to 300 CE” |
| Josh Freedline | “La Florida/Namman: Investigating a Locus of Politico-Economic Influence in the Classic Maya World” |
| Sarah McCarty | “Considerations of Contemporary Art Practices: Mexico City in Context” |
| Katherine Peterson | “Excavations at Ix Kuku’il under Amy Thompson’s project 'Understanding Ancient Maya (AD 250-900) Cultural Landscapes in Southern Belize through High-Resolution Geospatial Data'” |
| Brontë Velez | “Remembering and Re-Membering: Afro-Boriqueña Identity, the Arts, and Finding the Last Taino Reina of Loiza, Puerto Rico” |
| Adam Gamwell | “First Steps onto The Farm and into the Laboratory: Making the Global Quinoa Market in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy” |
| Sabrina Libretti | “La sostenibilidad y efectividad de los voluntarios viajes medicinales a Latinoamérica” |
| Brandeis Public Health Brigades | “Upstream Public Health Interventions in Rural Honduras” |