This summer, thanks in part to a CLACLS summer travel fellowship, I was able to conduct vital research for my dissertation on the island of Barbuda West Indies. With the CLACLS scholarship I traveled to the island of Barbuda where I spent two weeks doing fieldwork using a Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) on the site…

With the help of the CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship, I spent nearly a month in Brazil conducting preliminary research for my dissertation, which will focus on broad processes of securitization, surveillance, and social control in Rio de Janeiro. I spent a majority of the time in the communities of Mangueira and Santa Marta, two locations…

The CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship helped make possible a trip to Alagoas, Brazil, where I spent 5 weeks conducting preliminary research for my dissertation on underdevelopment and the history of the rural economy of Northeast Brazil. Although I had planned on spending most of my time at the Alagoas State Public Archives, I soon discovered…

 The summer of 2015 I spent time in Mexico City conducting preliminary dissertation research with support from the CLACLS Travel Grant. My intention was to probe how civil society organizations have responded to the current climate of human rights abuses and disappearances since the launch of the Mexican Drug War in 2008. During my time,…

Over the course of two months in the late summer of 2015, I managed a project of archaeological mapping and excavation at the site of Muralla de León, a fortified Maya site along the shore of Lake Macanché in the Petén department of northern Guatemala. The CLACLS Fellowship funded my flights down and back, as…