Author: Juan P Acevedo

Juan P Acevedo

  • Hector Agredano

    Hector Agredano – is a doctoral candidate in the Geography program of the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research is situated at the intersection of labor, transportation infrastructures and social change. Using archival research, oral histories and historical GIS his dissertation explores the role of railroads and railroad workers during the Mexican Revolution of…

  • Dadland Maye 

     I am a Ph.D. student in the English Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. My dissertation, “The Making of a Queer Caribbean Consciousness: The Influence of LGBTQ Activism on Anglophone Caribbean Literature” examines the history of LGBTQ activism in the English Caribbean from the 1970s to the present. It accomplishes this with a simultaneous analysis…

  • Jenny LeRoy

    This award supported my archival research trip to Havana, Cuba during the summer of 2015. I spent time at the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba and the Museo Municipal de Guanabacoa. I discovered an array of primary sources relating to the U.S. occupation of the island following the Spanish-American War. These have greatly…

  • Gillian Sneed

    Thanks in part to the CLACLS Summer 2015 Travel Fellowship I was able to conduct research in Rio de Janeiro Brazil for my dissertation on Brazilian women’s performance art for video and film of the 1970s and 1980s. This fellowship enabled me to do research at several archives and libraries and attend several relevant art…

  • Marc Wolf

    My work focuses on the spatial proclivities of ancient Maya society. Research primarily concentrates on the Late Classic (AD 700) Maya archaeological site of Cancuen in Guatemala’s Verapaz region of interface between the Central American volcanic highlands and the lush tropics of the Guatemalan Peten rainforest. Necessarily I use references from farther afield settlement within…