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Tania Aviles Vergara
I am a PhD student in the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures program. The Summer TravelFellowship 19 allowed me to spend five weeks in Santiago, Chile, conducting preliminary data-collection for my dissertation project. Thanks to the CLACLS Fellowship, I was able to visit several public archives such as Archivo Histórico Nacional, Archivo General del…
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Ana Flavia Badue
My doctoral research examines the social processes entailed in the digitization of Brazilian agribusiness and asks the extent to which digital and algorithmic devices (re)shape imperial, post-colonial, uneven relations. Thanks to the CLACLS travel fellowship, I visited the town of Piracicaba, located in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to conduct ethnographic research. During my…
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Cesar Augusto Coca
The CLACS scholarship allowed me to know several archives of the city of Buenos Aires that were linked to the relations between literature and politics in Latin America. Because in my research proposal I study the figure of the intellectual, I found the materials of the 60s to be particularly valuable. For this purpose, I…
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Viktor Bensus
My research focuses on urban politics in Lima, Peru. In particular, I am interested in how state and civil society actors engage in contentious politics through invited(e.g., participatory mechanisms)and invented spaces (e.g., grassroots and community organizations) at the local scale. Due to COVID-19 related flying restrictions and precautions, I was not able to conduct the…
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Marco Castillo
The CLACLS Travel Fellowship allowed me to cover transportation to and from Asuncion, Paraguay to carry out data recollection and exploratory research during the summer months of 2019. I could retrieve databases related to demographic indicators, census databases, and of carceral population. I additionally carried out exploratory archival research at the Paraguayan Supreme Court’s Human…
Author: Juan P Acevedo
