Tinker Grant Recipients 2015-2018

  • Miluska Benavides 
    • The imagination of the Evil in religious art in 16th-17th Colonial Peru
  • Jeffrey Brzezinski
    • Examining Regional Political Integration on the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Jennifer Cullison
    • Demonstrating Immigrant Foreign Relations Agency in Response to Increasing U.S. INS detention: Mexican State and National Archives, 1952-1996
  • Rachel Egan
    • Statement of the problem: Did the Ilopango eruption cause the 6th Century world-wide cultural disasters?
  • Lauren Gifford
    • From conservation to markets: The hidden power of carbon accounting
  • Nathan Gordon
    • Ophir de España: Colonial Archival Research in Peru
  • Jessica Hedgepeth​
    • A Preliminary Study of Formative Period (1800 BC-AD 250) Settlement Ecology in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico
  • Rebecca Kennedy​
    • Transnational Discourses of Black Consciousness Movements in Brazil, Colombia, and the US, 1940- 2000
  • Aaron Malone​
    • Collective Remittances as Development: Evaluating Institutionalization effects in Mexico's 3x1 Program
  • Daniela Marini​
    • Political Agroecology: Opening Spaces for Political Innovations on Food Systems in Río Cuarto, Argentina
  • Pascale Meehan​
    • Pilot Study Research at the Archaeological Site of Zacatepec (Yucu Satuta), Oaxaca, Mexico​
  • Danielle Merriman
    • Visualizing Victimhood in María la Baja, Colombia
  • Shawnna Mullenax 
    • Explaining Women's Representation in Latin America
  • Cecilia Valenzuela​
    • Pedagogical Intercambios: Cuban Education in Virtual Collaborations
  • Alan Zarychta​
    • It Takes More than a Village: Polycentric Governance and the Performance of Local Health Systems in Central America 
  • Bertha Bermudez Tapia
    • Where is home? Life after deportation. A study along the houses of hospitality for immigrants and the deported on the US-Mexico border.
  • Alex Cárdenas
    • The social (re)construction of the mestizo in colonial Peru
  • Max Counter
    • Managing Dispossession: Conflict, Land Restitution, and Development in Colombia's Magdalena Medio
  • Tom Hanson
    • Fire, Community, and Ecological Change: A Diachronic Analysis of Anthropogenic Fire Disturbances, Risk, and Cultural Impacts in Southeastern Bolivia.
  • Emily Hite
    • Political Ecology of Costa Rica’s Carbon Neutral Plan: how indigenous communities mediate conflicting resource frontiers
  • Will Lammons
    • Discourses of the Street: Urban Art, Politics,and Identity in Oaxaca City’s Urban Art
  • Ana Martinez
    • The vestige and the ruin as motifs in Jorge Eduardo Eielson's poetry and visual art
  • Page McClean
    • Por la Carretera: The Contested Histories and Spaces of Chile’s Southern Highway
  • Arielle Milkman
    • From Extraordinary to Ordinary Violence: Water and possibilities of participation in
      post-reconciliation Peru
  • Jim Miranda
    • Modes of Transit: Tracing Migration Networks Beyond the Borderlands
  • Gregorio Ortiz
    • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Uneven Development and Environmental Subjectivities in the Eagle Ford Shale, South Texas
  • Juan Oyarvides
    • Excelsior’s blank page and Mexico’s public sphere in the 1970’s
  • Mariana Sanders
    • Examination of Mural Pigments with Portable XRF in the caves of Eastern Guerrero with Comparisons to Colonial Lienzos and Documents
  •  Mark Trautman
    • Economic Inequality and Municipal Performance in Chile
  • Marcus Avelar
  • Miluska Benavides
    • The Sacred and Secularity in the Construction of Modernity in Mexico and Peru, 1920-1950
  • Bertha Bermudez Tapia
    • Where is home? Life after deportation. A study along the houses of hospitality for immigrants and the deported on the US-Mexico border
  • Christina Boyes
    • Cooperation Between Mexico and the United States on the Colorado River
  • Gabriela Buitron Vera
    • Testimonial Writing and Collective Memory of Mexico City Earthquake of 1985
  • Emily Hite
    • Inside a 'Climate Frontier' — Productions of Space, Place, and Resiliency in Costa Rica
  • Kevin Mason
    • Language isolation and Indigenous Mexican migrants
  • Brian Marein
    • Puerto Rican immigration to mainland United States, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
  • Page McClean
    • Por la Carretera: The Contested Histories and Spaces of Chile’s Southern Highway
  • Arielle Milkman
    • Dangerous Maps: Visualizing Material Risk and Displacement in Barrios Altos, Lima, Peru
  • Tim Molnar
    • Honduras Cook Stove Interventions: Gender and Age differential in use
  • Gabriella Subia Smith
    • Participatory GIS and property formalization in Cali, Colombia 
  • Laura Malaver
    • Performing Queer/Cuir in Bogotá: Tierra, Conflicto, Arte, Paz
  • Diego Melo
    • Inhabiting the Extractive Frontier: Territorial rights and mineral prospecting in the Chocó and Amazon regions of Colombia
  • Alejandra Portillos
    • LGBT Latino/a/x experiences with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • María Ruiz-Martinez
    • ​US-Mexico Family Separation