Faculty Funding

ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMPETITION: ILAS FACULTY GRANTS

Academic Year 2012-2013

DEADLINE:  MARCH 9, 2012

The Institute of Latin American Studies is pleased to announce its annual faculty grants competition.

Faculty  may  apply  for  grants  for: 

(1)  individual  research  and  travel; 

(2)  individual  and  joint  faculty  curriculum  innovation; 

(3)  research  conferences  and workshops;

(4) sustaining faculty working groups; and

(5) lecture and film series

Grants will  be  awarded  after  a  review  of  proposals  by  an  interdisciplinary  faculty  committee appointed  by  the  Institute’s  Executive  Director,  Professor  Thomas  Trebat.  Awards, including travel awards , may be taken up at any time during the fiscal year from July 1, 2012 through June 1, 2013.

ELIGIBILITY: Any full‐time member of the Columbia teaching faculty may apply. 

DEADLINE  FOR  APPLICATIONS:    Proposals  for  awards  in  FY  2012‐2013  (July  1,  2012 through  June  1,  2013)  must  be  submitted  by  March  9,  2012  to receive  priority consideration for funding.  

Awards will be announced by March 30, 2012

DOWNLOAD GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT, APPLICATION GUIDELINES AND FORM.

 

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Past Faculty Grant Winners

Conference or Workshop Grants

• Sara Guerschanik Calvo
  Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
  Pablo M. Pinto
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Conference: Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: Research Challenges
   
• Regina Cortina
  Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College
  Erin Murphy-Graham
  Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NYU
  Conference: Reconstructing National Identities: Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America
   
• Clara Irazabal
  Department of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
  Alejandro De Castro
  Latin American and Caribbean Laboratory (Latin Lab), Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
  Workshop: Lessons from Colombian Architecture and Urbanism
   
• Nara Milanich
  Department of History, Barnard
  Workshop: The Chile Reader
   
• Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo
  Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
  Workshop: Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language: A Workshop for Teachers
   
• Milton Wainberg
  Department of Psychiatry, Columbia Medical Center
  Workshop: Opinion leaders adolescents with mental disorders HIV prevention conference
   
• Karl Sauvant
  Columbia Program on International Investment
  Workshop: Defining Sustainable International Investment: Striving for Consensus on Latin American Development Objectives
   
• Alan Dye
  Department of Economics, Barnard College
  Conference: Herb Klein 
   
• Janet Jakobsen
  Barnard Center for Research on Women
  Conference: Biodiversity, Green Imperialism, and Indigenous Feminist Leadership in Mexico and the Americas
   
• Thomas Trebat
  Institute of Latin American Studies
  Conference: Development Challenges in Brazil and the Role of Universities
   
• Pablo Piccato
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences    
  Conference: New Political History on 19th Century Latin America
   
• Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Workshop: Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language
   
• Elisabeth Lindenmayer
  UN Studies Program, SIPA   
  Conference: Haiti- The Reality of a Peacekeeping Operation
   
• Ana Obraido
  Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health   
  Conference: The Dominican Air Bridge: A Research Agenda

Working Group Grants

• M. Victoria Murillo y Pablo Pinto
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and SIPA
  Political Economy of Latin America Seminar

• Pablo Piccato
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  NYC Latin American History Workshop

• Regina Cortina
  Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College   
  Working Group on Latin American Migration

Single Event Grants

• Caterina Pizzigonni
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Visit from Director of Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology

Individual Research and Travel Grants

• Patricia Velasco and Ofelia Garcia
  Bilingual/Bicultural Department and International and Transcultural Studies,  TC
  Tzotzil-Spanish Intercultural Bilingual Education in Chiapas

• Maite Conde
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Cinema, Literature and Modern Society in Rio de Janeiro, 1890s to 1920s

• Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Inside the Language Classroom: the Student Perspective

• Maria Brave Heart
  School of Social Work    
  Indigenous Research Project: Maya Collective Trauma and Grief

• Rogerio Pinto
  School of Social Work    
  Studying a Community-Focused Model of Disease Prevention in Brazil

• Barbara Taylor and Jennifer Hirsch
  Department of Sociomedical Sciences, CUMC/ Mailman School of Public Health
  Factors Affecting Adherence to Antiretroviral Medications for HIV in Puebla, Mexico

• Isabel Estrada
  Department of Spanish and Latin America Cultures, Barnard College   
  The Memory of the Pinochet Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Documentaries

• Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez
  Department of Evolution and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Integrated Agriculture and Environmental Management in the Peruvian Amazon

• Ruth Borgman
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   
  Four Migrations between Mexico and the US

• Elisabeth Lindenmayer
  UN Studies Program, SIPA   
  Haiti - The Reality of a Peacekeeping Operation

• Regina Cortina
  Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College
  Gender Education and Equity in International Development Cooperation

• Anke Birkenmaier
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Engaged Observation: American Anthropology Between the Wars

• Alan Dye
  Department of Economics, Barnard College   
  Trade Reciprocity Between Cuba and the US, 1903- 1958

• Cristiane Duarte
  Department of Child Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons    
  Public School Dropout and Child Mental Health Care in Brazil

• Luis Gonzalves
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 
  Presentation of Two Papers and a Workshop in Brazil

• Vincent Guillamo-Ramos
  School of Social Work    
  Late Adolescence and Sexual Behavior among Dominican Youths: A family-based perspective

• Gustavo Perez-Firmat
  Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences    
  Cuba in the American Imagination

• M. Victoria Murillo
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and SIPA
  Partisan Networks and Political Linkages in Latin American Democracies 

• Pablo Pinto
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences    
  Leadership Attitudes Towards Trade, Investment and Privatization in Argentina 

• Pablo Pinto
  Department of Political Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  Partisan Investment in Argentina: When Labor Loves FDI and FDI Loves Labor

• Jose Moya
  Department of History, Barnard College   
  Anarchism in Belle Epoque Buenos Aires

• Rebecca Kobrin
  Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  East European Jews, Immigrant Organizations and the Development of Argentina’s Garment Industry