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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…
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Justin Bracken
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…
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Gordon Barnes
This past summer, I traveled to London, England and Coromandel, Mauritius to conduct preliminary dissertation research on a project that examines planter politics and ideology alongside the violence of slaves and freed blacks in the British Empire, with a particular focus on the Caribbean and Indian Ocean (Jamaica and Mauritius). The CLACLS Travel Fellowship helped…
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