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Sergio Palencia-Frener
The CLACLS funding allowed me to travel to Maya indigenous communities in the northern highlands of Guatemala. There, I did fieldwork among people who experienced the war between the years 1969 and 1986. Together with a group of survivors we went to the hamlets and mounts where many resisted and fought during and after the…
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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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Gabriel Alvarado Pavez
The CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship funding allowed me to reach key stakeholders within Chile’s language market. As my research involves an analysis of a broad spectrum of linguistic ideologies, being in Santiago helped me focus on a close, detailed observation of phenomena. My preliminary findings consisted on a complex weaving of emerging political discourses about…
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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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