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Posted Apr 19, 2012

ILAS faculty grant awardee, Jennifer Hirsch, selected as 2012 Guggenheim Fellow

ILAS congratulates Professor Jennifer Hirsch, an ILAS faculty grant awardee, for winning the Guggenheim Fellow of 2012! She is one of eight Columbia faculty members to have won 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships in recognition of their “exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

Posted Feb 15, 2012

New exchange program between Free University of Berlin and Columbia University

The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) is pleased to present a new exchange program for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Students between ILAS at Columbia University and the Latin American Institute at the Free University of Berlin.  The purpose of this agreement is to support research and education of the highest academic quality on topics about Latin America in the areas of social sciences and cultural studies, provide for the doctoral and postdoctoral students international experience, and facilitate international networks among students and faculty. 

 

Posted Mar 29, 2011

Smith Richardson Foundation announces funding opportunity for faculty and doctoral students

The World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship is an annual competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history. The Foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each. The deadline for submission is October 17, 2011, and the results will be announced by February 1, 2012. For further information on eligibility and how to apply: http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php

Posted Jan 26, 2011

Center for Brazilian Studies receives a major grant from Jorge Paulo Lemann

Jorge Paulo Lemann, a noted Brazilian entrepreneur, has donated $500,000 to Columbia’s Center for Brazilian Studies. This grant, the largest single gift ever received by the Center, will be disbursed in over a five-year time-frame and will be instrumental in expanding the Center’s core activities. These include many initiatives by the Center to strengthen the ties between Brazil and Columbia such as the Ruth Cardoso Visiting Professorship and Columbia faculty collaborative research with Brazilian counterparts. In addition, the Lemann gift will help the Center to develop new graduate and undergraduate courses on Brazilian topics, often in collaboration with Brazilian educational institutions.  More...

Posted Sep 01, 2010

Institute of Latin American Studies Awarded Competitive National Resource Center Grant!

Columbia University's Institute of Latin American Studies was recently awarded generous funding through the rigorous and competative U.S. government's National Resource Center grantmaking process. These funds will help the Institute of Latin American Studies further its partnership with New York University over the next three years and their continued strengthening of the New York City Consortium for Latin American Studies. Together, the Institute of Latin American Studies and NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will continue to offer specialized foreign language study, resources to students and scholars in their study of Latin America, access to state of the art library facilities and databases, and events with experts in the field of Latin American Studies.

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