Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant Recipients
During 2019-20 and 2020-21, the Research Center for the Americas (RCA) administered the Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant in partnership with the Latin American and Latino Studies Department of UC Santa Cruz. The funding opportunity received additional support from the UC Santa Cruz Foundation's Board Opportunity Fund, Graduate Division, and the Office of Research. Below is the list of UCSC's award recipients.
2021
Mining, Power, and Contention Across Central America: Movements, Elites, and the State
Politics PhD Program, Division of Social Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Kent Eaton
Country of research: Honduras and Nicaragua
Secular spirits: a comparative study of the Santo Daime bailado and the popular Festa Junina in the Northeast of Brazil
Latin American and Latino Studies PhD Program, Division of Social Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Pinho
Country of research: Brasil
Local adaptation to pollinators and pollinator isolation in Neotropical Costus
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD Program, Division of Physical & Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Kay
Country of research: Costa Rica
Tamara Ortega UribeLocalizing postneoliberal politics and extractivist patterns of global environmental problems in Latin America
Politics PhD Program, Division of Social Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Kent Eaton
Country of research: Chile
Green gravel for kelp restoration in Baja California
Coastal Science and Policy Master Program, Division of Physical & Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Mark Carr
Country of research: México
Coastal Connections: Nation Building and Third Cinema through Peruvian and American Filmmaking
Film and Digital Media, Division of Arts
Advisor: Dr. Irene Lusztig
Country of research: Perú
Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice: The Politics of Policy-making in Peru and Colombia
Latin American and Latino Studies PhD Program, Division of Social Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Sylvanna Falcón
Country of research: Perú
2020
Mario Gomez-ZamoraThe P’urhépecha Sexualities in the Local and in the Transnational Space
Latin American and Latino Studies PhD Program, Division of Social Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Fernando Levia
Country of research: México
Julia HarencarSolving the mystery of a contradictory pattern of beetle damage in Panamanian spiral gingers
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology PhD Program, Division of Physical & Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Kay
Country of research: Panamá
Project Ayniqucha: A dynamic and participatory strategy for bycatch prevention and improvement of fishing efficiency in Peru
Coastal Science and Policy Master Program, Division of Physical & Biological Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Elliott Hazen
Country of research: Perú
Miracles Revisited: Developmentalism and the Government of Gendered Citizen in Chile and South Korea
Latin American and Latino Studies PhD Program, Division of Social Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Cecilia Rivas
Country of research: Chile
Women and Textiles: A Look at Empire from the Margins
History of Art and Visual Culture PhD Program, Division of Arts
Advisor: Dr. Carolyn Dean
Country of research: México, Chile, Argentina
Spatial and Cultural Transformations: Centers of Religious Devotion in Colonial Central Mexico
History PhD Program, Humanities Division
Advisor: Dr. Matt O'Hara
Country of research: México
Freedom is a Place: Shaping abolitionist geographies in the wake of migrant containment and detention
Social Documentation M.F.A. Program, Division of Arts
Advisor: John Jota Leaños
Country of research: México
INGOs and National Health Care in Costa Rica: Towards Health for All
Politics PhD Program, Division of Social Sciences
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Sparke
Country of research: Costa Rica
