STUDENTS AND CLAS
16 FLAS FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
Stanford University’s Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) administers the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students pursuing language training in less commonly taught languages of Latin America. Academic Year 2013-2014 Sage Behr, Undergraduate, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Portuguese Valeria Collazo, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Portuguese Hayden Rodarte, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Quechua Rachel Taube, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Portuguese Kiah Thorn, Graduate, Latin American Studies, Portuguese Alexandra Miller, Graduate, Law School, Portuguese
Summer 2014 Sage Behr, Undergraduate, Quechua, Peru Bradlee Birchansky, Undergraduate, Portuguese, Brazil Caroline Egan, Graduate, Nahuatl, Yale University Monica VanBladel, Graduate, Portuguese, Middlebury College Gladis Xiloj, Undergraduate, Kaqchikel Maya, Guatemala
AYACUCHO FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Ayacucho Fund was established with a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation to award fellowships to Latin American graduate students at Stanford University. Ana Cristina Núñez, Law School Hayden Rodarte, Latin American Studies
SOARES FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENTS
The Soares Fund was established with a generous gift from Edward J. and Margaret S. Soares to provide full fellowship to Latin American Studies graduate students at Stanford University. WalterThompson-Hernández, Latin American Studies
CLAS GRADUATE RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS
The Center for Latin American Studies supports Stanford graduate field research in Latin America. Annette Esquibel, Anthropology, Ecotourism, Peru Sam Holley-Kline, Anthropology, El Tajín archeological site, Mexico Luis Muro, Anthropology, Fieldwork in San Andrés de Sametabaj, Guatemala
VENEZUELA RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS
The Center for Latin American Studies invites proposals for Stanford graduate-student led research in Venezuela, funded through a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation. Ana Cristina Núñez, Law School, State censorship of the press and of dissenting voices in Venezuela (1999-2013), Venezuela
CLAS CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENTS
The Center for Latin American Studies supports Stanford graduate students to attend and present on topics related to Latin America at professional meetings and conferences. Elena Dancu, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, 12th Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, London, England Marguerite De Loney, Anthropology, Society for Historical Archeology, 47th Annual Conference, Quebec City, Canada Sarah Quesada, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, 7th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Diego Román, Education, I Foro de Estudiantes Ecuatorianos en América del Norte, Quito, Ecuador Fatoumata Seck, French, Ethnologie haitienne et ethnologie d’Haiti Conference, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Walter Thompson-Hernández, Latin American Studies, 12th Annual Alumni of Color Conference, Harvard University Tom Winterbottom, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, American Comparative Literature Association’s Conference, New York City
SGS GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES GRANT A generous gift from the Friends of Stanford University Foundation in Taiwan enabled the Stanford Global Studies Division to award “Global Perspectives” grants to help fund summer SGS graduate student research in 2014. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, Latin American Studies graduate student, was one of 11 SGS students to be awarded and spent six weeks in Brussels, Belgium, studying the impact of immigration on race relations, assimilation, and identity.