Previous Grant Recipients
2019 - 2020
- John Kennedy, Ph.D. student, Department of Romance Studies. Support doctoral dissertation research: Representation of migration, borders, and race at the U.S. Mexico/Mexico-Guatemala border.
2018 - 2019
- Elizabeth De Los Reyes ’19, B.A. Government. Research working with Brownsville, Texas border detention and immigrant support centers
- Luis Delgadillo ‘21, B.A. Government. Research project focusing on the education system of Latinx communities with relations to the southern border of the United States.
- Yoselinda Mendoza, Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology/Latina/o Studies minor. Support doctoral dissertation research: Housing precarity among mixed status Latinx immigrant families.
- John Kennedy, Ph.D. student, Department of Romance Studies. Support doctoral dissertation research: Representation of migration, borders, and race at the U.S. Mexico/Mexico-Guatemala border.
- Karla Castillo, CIPA ’20. Research working with Border Angels on the U.S. Mexico border.
- Carolina Osorio-Gil, Ph.D. student, Department of Development Sociology/Latina/o Studies minor. Support doctoral dissertation research: Latinx Indigenous Diaspora of the Americas.
2017- 2018
- Cristina Correa, MFA/Creative Writing Program. Latino creativity in post-disaster environment in Puerto Rico
- Henry Gonzalez ’19, Africana Studies/Latina/o Studies Undergraduate minor. Dominican and Haitian communities in New York City
- Elena Guzman, Ph.D. student, Department of Anthropology. Performing on the Fringes: Cross Border Dialogues and Networks in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
- Salvador Herrera ’18, B.A. English/Latina/o Studies Undergraduate minor. “The Force of Teotl: Deriving Change From Chican@futurisms and Indigenous Philosophies”
- Emily Vazquez, Ph.D. student, Department of Romance Studies/Latina/o Studies Graduate minor “How to narrate the “invisible” or Speculate Border Fiction”
2015-2016
- Francisca Aparo ’17, Sociology/Latina/o Studies Undergraduate Minor. First Generation College Students at Elite Institutions: Stigma, Inequality, and Intersectionality
- Kimberly Cardenas ’17, Government/Latina/o Studies Undergraduate minor. Formations of Politicized Diasporic Identities in the U.S. and France: A Comparative Study
- David Cortez, Ph.D. Candidate, Government/Latina/o Studies Graduate Minor. Between Two Camps: Identity, Duty, Belonging, and the New ‘La(tino) Migra’
- Alberto Milian, Ph.D. Candidate, History/Latina/o Studies Graduate. Minor Dreaming under a Perfect Sun: The Ethnic Mexican Experience in Greater San Diego, 1848–1970’s
- Nancy Quintanilla, Ph.D. Candidate, English/Latina/o Studies Graduate Minor. The Future of Central American-American Studies
2014 -2015
- Elena Guzman, Ph.D.Candidate, Department of Anthropology. Narratives of blackness among local and diasporic Caribbean communities
- Luis Angel Martinez, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of City and Regional Planning/Latino Studies, Anthropology, Sociology Minors Beyond Mitigating Environmental Risk in Chicago’s Little Village: Negotiating Power, Collaboration, and Recognition
- Noemi Plaza ’15, Biology & Society, Near Eastern Studies/Global Health Minors. Study of Chicano/a Usage of Cruz-Badianus Medicinal Plants
- Nancy Quintanilla, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English/Latino Studies Minor. The Future of Central American-American Studies
- Valeria San Juan ’16, International Agriculture & Rural Development. The engagement of Latino university students in Latino America study abroad programs.
2013 – 2014
- Deborah Rose '15, Spanish/Latino Studies Undergraduate Minor. The role of ESL Instruction and Language Acquisition in Breaking Social Isolation among the Latino Immigrant Farmworker Population in Upstate NY
- Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English/Latino Studies Minor.
- Critical Telling: Undocumented Youth, Testimonio, and Coming Out of the Shadows
- Diane Wong, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government. Voices from El Barrio: Gentrification and the Latino Community in New York City
2012 – 2013
- Jean Carlos Polanco '13,Department of Communications/Latino Studies Minor. Life in absence of the Public Sphere: The Impact of Virtual Communities on Black & Latino Men who sleep with Men
- Luis Angel Martinez '13, Masters, Department of City and Regional Planning/Latino Studies Minor. Práctica: Interdisciplinary work focusing on Latino communities in the U.S.
- Rodrigo Alatriste-Diaz, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Development Sociology/Latino Studies Minor. Mexican Immigrants in Home Town Associations
- Omar Figueredo, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Romance Studies, Hispanic Studies/Latino Studies Minor. Tender Struggles: Affect and Critical Discourse in Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Fiction
- Nancy Quintanilla, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English/Latino Studies Minor. Chicano/a Movement within San Francisco
2011 – 2012
- Edwardo Valero, Ph.D, Candidate, Department of Education/LSP Grad Minor. Problematic Playgrounds, Dramatic Designs, Magical Margins: The Making of Rural California Schools, 1950 –Present
- Melissa Rosario, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Anthropology/LSP Grad Minor. Building Zones of Autonomy: Struggling for the Commons in Contemporary Puerto Rico
- Kathleen Sexsmith, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Development Sociology. Economic and Social Integration of Guatemalan and Mexican workers into dairying communities in Rural New York
- Nancy Morales, '12 Masters, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA). National Day Labor Organizing Network
- Luis Martinez '13 Masters, City and Regional Planning. The geography of foundation funding for Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and Latin America
- Marion Robine '12, Biology and Society. Nutrition of Children of Immigrant Families: American and Traditional Ways 2010-2011
- Orlando Lara,MFA, Creative Writing Program, Dept. of English. A Series of Linked Short Stories About a Mexican Family Living Between the Gulf of Texas, Central Mexico, and the South Texas Border
- Jimmy A. Noriega, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Theatre, Film, & Dance/LSP Grad Minor. Explore, Witness, Document, and Work with Artists that Strive for Change by Encouraging a Progressive Immigration Reform and a New Model of Performing the Nation
- Natalie Yasmin Soto, Ph.D Student, Dept. of English/LSP Grad Minor. The Emergence of Arab American Literature as a “New” Field for Literary Investigation
- Matthew Stieglitz, Masters, CIPA Constructive Engagement: The Need for a Progressive Cuban Lobby in Obama’s Washington
- Javier Alvarado, ‘11, Urban & Regional Studies/LSP Undegrad Minor. Interdisciplinary Constructionism: The Need to Re-examine Urban Planning and Economic Development Through an Interdisciplinary Optic in a Time of Neoliberalism Thu-
- Huong Nguyen, ‘11, Urban & Regional Studies/Africana Studies/AAS Minor. Political Participation in Changing Suburbs: Latinos in Port Chester, NY as a Case Study
- Phoenix Storm Paz, ‘12, History/Spanish/Latino Studies/American Indian/Latin American Studies Undergrad Minor. Youth Migrations: The Undocumented Immigration of Children and Adolescents to the United States
2009 - 2010
- Edwardo Valero, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Education/LSP Grad Minor. The Ethnicization of Space and the Spatialization of Ethnicity in the Making of Rural California Schools
- Armando García, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Romance Studies/LSP Grad Minor. The Indian in the Archive: Performance, Ethnography and the Colonial Haunting of the Americas
- Eduardo Jiménez, Ph.D. Student, Cornell Law School. Improving Access to Legal Services for Latina/o Victims of Human Traffiking in Upstate New York
2008 – 2009
- Edwardo Valero, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Education/LSP Grad Minor. Understanding the ways in which the positionality of school buildings demarcates where/how/why students socially construct spaces on school grounds
- Belinda Rincón, Ph.D. Student, Department of English/LSP Grad Minor. War's effects on Chicana/o and Mexican culture and gender formation
- Xenia Meyer, Ph.D. Student, Science Education. Instruction in nature of science and inquiry with underrepresented and English language learning students: Being explicit about science
- Mariana Cruz, Ph.D. Student, Department of Education. Freely associated learners: Education policies and the production of Puerto Rican political identities on the island and in the U.S.
- Chris Zepeda, Masters Candidate, Department of Government/LSP Grad minor. Political incorporation and mobilization of Latino immigrants in the U.S.
2007 - 2008
- Miranda Cady Hallet, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology. Nuevo Arkansas: Salvadoran communities in unexpected places
- Mariana Cruz, Ph.D. Student, Department of Education. Exploring spaces of teaching and learning within Puerto Rican Communities in Central Florida
- Sophia Wallace, Ph.D. Student, Department of Government. Latino Representation: the representation of Hispanic Americans by their co-ethnic representatives in both Congress and in select state legislatures
- Melissa Rosario, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology. Local autonomy in a current grassroots environmentalist movement in Puerto Rico
- Xenia Meyer, Ph.D. Student, Department of Education. Using inquiry and integrated ecological curriculum with English language learners in an urban middle school science classroom
- Albery Melo, '09, Department of Human Development/LSP Undergrad Minor. First and second gene ration Dominicans and their adaptations to life in the U.S.