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Tinker Graduate Research Award

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 

 

BASILIO, Raul 

 

Anthropology 

PhD 

 

Visceral Waters: Exploring Cultural and Political Tensions Around Pollution in the Jacarepaguá Lagoon Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

 

 

Brazil 

 

CAMPBELL, Devan 

 

Environ. Health Science 

PhD 

 

Determinants of black carbon exposure among pregnant women in four diverse countries: Results from the HAPIN Trial 

 

 

Guatemala 

 

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 

 

CRUZ, Lais 

 

Romance Languages 

MA 

 

The Concept of Freedon in Clarice Lispector’s Work from a Psychoanalytical and De (Colonial) Perspective 

 

 

Brazil 

 

DEL TORO ORAZCO, Wezddy 

 

Forestry 

PhD 

 

An Integrative Approach to Addressing Human-Jaguar Conflicts and Promoting Coexistence in the Brazilian Amazon 

 

 

Brazil 

 

GALYON, Katherine 

 

Romance Languages 

MA 

 

Gender Morphology in Quechua and Andean Spanish: Exploring Relationships between Gendered Language and Gender Ideology 

 

 

Peru 

 

 

 

LANGHORN, Gabrielle 

 

Anthro./ 

ICON 

PhD 

 

The Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Desertificación in Ceará, Brazil 

 

 

 

 

 

Brazil 

 

MARCIPAR, Iris 

 

Music 

DMA 

 

Articulation and Percussive Effects in Double Bass Performance 

 

 

Argentina 

 

UBIALI, Bruno G. 

 

Anthropology 

PhD 

 

What is Productive Land? Cultural Notions of Land in an Agricultural Frontier, Brazilian Amazon  

 

 

Brazil 

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