CELAS supports individual and collaborative research projects in Latin American and Latinx Studies via a competitive process. These are the research projects we have supported in 2025:
Research Awards 2025
Faculty
- Claire Branigan, MCLC, Generative Kinship: Family Activism for Justice in Latin America
- Azucena Castro, MCLC, Multispecies Resistance. Decolonizing Invasive Ecology Narratives under Chemical Colonialism from South America
- Alida Metcalf, History, Adding the 1964 Cadastral Map to imagineRio
Graduate Students
- Logan Buffa, History, Hell on Devil's Isle: Indian Slavery and Atlantic Bermuda
- Alejandra Osejo Varona, Anthropology, Unpacking the Hippo Controversy: A Collaborative Knowledge-Sharing Project in Colombia
- Isaac Salazar, English, Reclaiming Anzaldúa’s Valley: Spiritual Resistance as Planetary Citizenship in the Age of Desconocimiento
- Laura Vazquez Arreguin, History, The Complex Transpacific connections of the 17th Century Spanish Empire
Undergraduate students
- Simran Haribhai, Anthropology, Navigating Legal Barriers: Domestic Violence Survivors in Hague Convention Child Abduction Cases (Texas-based)
- Quinn Healy, LALX, History Queer Sociopolitical Mobilization in 21st Century Brazil