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Liliana Quiroa-Crowell
With the support of the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship, I visited the northern Alta/Baja Verapaz region of Guatemala. While my larger doctoral research is based in the eastern Caribbean coastal city of Puerto Barrios and the surrounding Q’eqchi’ Maya communities, this trip was key for my doctoral project as this area is the territory historically…
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Victor García Ramírez
Thanks in part to a CLACLS summer travel fellowship, I spent four weeks in Bogotá, Colombia conducting preliminary research towards my dissertation which analyzes the representation of corpses in Venezuelan and Colombian biographical narratives written during the two country’s first hundred years as independent republics (1810-1910). My goal is to show how these narratives are…
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Cecilia Salvi
My dissertation research explores the “democratization of literature” by Chilean cartoneras. They are independent publishing houses that handcraft book covers from repurposed, upcycled cardboard while using digital technology to print pages en masse. Thanks to a CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship I carried out archival research at local libraries, recorded interviews, and established networks with cartoneras that are dedicated to helping people…
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Sally Sharif
I used the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship to go to Colombia to finalize my field research on the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) program with the FARC rebel group. I visited three demobilization camps and interviewed 100 FARC ex-combatants. I also interviewed the former President of Colombia, a FARC Congressman, senior officials at the UN…
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Joseph Torres-Gonzalez
The support I received from the CLACLS Summer Research Travel Fellowship allowed me to travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico to conduct preliminary archival research at the Puerto Rican Collection of the José M. Lázaro Library (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus). I am currently a third-year doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology at the…
Author: Juan P Acevedo
