Category: 2020

  • Roberto Enriquez Martinez Bachrich

    Due to the COVID my summer plans changed. I was not able to travel and visit the archives in Caracas and Bogotá I was supposed to, since all the travel restrictions and borders were (and are) closed. I was able, though, to dedicate myself to research in many digital archives throughout the world and thanks…

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  • Christian Pacheco-Gomez

    The CLACLS summer research grant enabled me to conduct follow-up interviews and digital archival research to analyze how the flows of state violence produced by the U.S. deportation apparatus and the Mexican migratory management converge in Tijuana’s border regime and migratory crisis. In Tijuana, Mexicans deported from the U.S. and asylum seekers attempting to cross…

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  • Justo Planas-Cabreja

    As soon as I received the acceptance letter for the CLACLS fellowship in February, I bought a plane ticket to Havana and spent some days at the Cuban National Library Jose Martí taking photos of the medical journals La Higiene and Vida Nueva, which are not available online and can only be found in Havana.…

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  • Jorge Alvis

    In summer 2019, I travelled to my home country, Colombia, thanks to a CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowships. It provided me with the resources to do archival work in Bogota, as well as to draft a paper for my second exam and to outline a presentation for an international conference. As a graduate student working in…

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  • Viktor Bensus

    My research focuses on urban politics in Lima, Peru. In particular, I am interested in how state and civil society actors engage in contentious politics through invited(e.g., participatory mechanisms)and invented spaces (e.g., grassroots and community organizations) at the local scale. Due to COVID-19 related flying restrictions and precautions, I was not able to conduct the…

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