DRCLAS INTERNSHIP AND TRAVEL GRANTS

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DRCLAS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATES

Each year the Center hosts an average of 8-10 DRCLAS Graduate Student Associates. GSA's are eligible for office space at DRCLAS in the Center for Government and International Studies, subject to space availability. GSA's are entitled to Center resources such as grant funding, fax, mail, and business cards. Interested students must be PhD candidates who have finished their General Exams. Applications to be a GSA for the 2008-2009 academic year are due on Monday, April 14, 2008 by 12 pm.

» GSA Application for 2007-2008

DRCLAS GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS

Conference Travel Grants of up to $300 per year are available to graduate students traveling to conferences to present papers on Latin America. Deadline is rolling and students are requested to submit applications at least one month before conference date.

» 2006-2007 Conference

FLAS Grants

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grants

Academic-Year FLAS Fellowships and FLAS Summer Intensive Language Training Grants are available to graduate students pursuing language studies and/or regional studies. Applications for the Summer 2007 and for the 2007-2008 academic year for continuing students are available at the Graduate School of Arts of Sciences and are due January 12, 2007. For more information about FLAS grants, please contact the FLAS Coordinator at flas@fas.harvard.edu or see the FLAS website.

Hilda Ochoa Brillembourg Fellows Program

The Hilda Ochoa Brillembourg Fellows Program

The Hilda Ochoa Brillembourg Fellows program is a short-term exchange program between the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and IESA, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion in Caracas, Venezuela, open to Harvard faculty and graduate students from across the university. IESA is the premier graduate school of business and public policy in Venezuela, and is free from any economic, political, ideological or religious affiliation. Its mission is to prepare individuals for leadership positions in business, nonprofit and public organizations in order to contribute to the wellbeing of society. IESA also plays a crucial role in promoting democratic values, developing corporate social responsibility, and strengthening civil society organizations in Venezuela.

The major goals of the program are to give Harvard faculty and graduate students the opportunity to teach, do research, and contribute towards the democratization of Venezuela in a vital, dynamic environment; and, to promote increased collaboration and strengthen institutional ties between Harvard University and IESA. Appropriate fields for applicants include: Anthropology, Business Administration, Economics, Education, Law, Political Science and Government, Sociology and Social Work. Currently applications are being accepted for the Ochoa Fellowships covering the following topics of interest and study: Oil and society; Women's role in firms and NGO's in Venezuela; Indigenous people and grassroots entrepreneurship; Venezuelan politics in a time of crisis; Conflict resolution and negotiation; Nonprofit management in a school of business; Marketing for social enterprise; Elections, political parties and social movements in a developing country. The Fellows will receive office space and a computer at IESA. In addition to providing a monthly stipend, the grant also covers travel to and from Venezuela, and will provide housing arrangements for students. These short-terms grants are available for:

Graduate students: minimum 1 month - maximum 4 months (one semester)
Faculty: minimum 2 weeks - maximum 4 months (one semester)

Applications are accepted until Tuesday, February 19, 2008 by 12 pm for consideration for a fellowship during the Summer 2007 or academic year 2007-2008. Candidates will be reviewed through a competitive selection process, by the established DRCLAS Research Committees, with the collaboration of IESA representatives. The program will seek to identify one faculty member and three graduate students as Ochoa Brillembourg Fellows each year. 

De Fortabat Fellowship Program

Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Endowment

De Fortabat fellowships make it possible for Argentine students to undertake graduate studies at Harvard University. For information on this and other graduate student support, please visit Harvard's Committee on General Scholarships website, where applicants can also download the de Fortabat application (under the Argentina link).

Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowships

Jorge Paulo Lemann Fellowships

Lemann Fellowships make it possible for Brazilian students to undertake graduate studies at Harvard University, primarily in the fields of education, public health, and government. For information on this and other graduate student support, please visit Harvard's Committee on General Scholarships web site.

2006-2007 Graduate Student Associates

Leticia J. Braga, GSE

Leticia J. Braga is a fifth year doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Education.  Her research interests include adolescent development, immigration, and access to education in Brazil, her native country.  During her time at DRCLAS she will be working on her thesis, a study of the adaptation of Brazilian immigrant adolescents in the Boston area.  She is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and has previously published in ReVista.

Daniel Gutierrez, GSAS History

Daniel Gutierrez is a doctoral candidate in History. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, "A Fragment of Empire: Zacatecas, 1786-1848," deals with political instability and conflict in postcolonial Mexico. He was the coordinator of the Boston Area Latin American History Workshop in 2003-2005 and a residential Graduate Student Associate of DRCLAS in 2005-2006.

Ernesto Martinez, GSAS Anthropology

Ernesto Martinez is a Chicano from California in the department of Anthropology. He is a G-4, Ph.D. candidate and has recently returned from Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, where he was doing his field research. His research focuses specifically on the Chinese diaspora in Mexico, at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. His dissertation will focus on violence, labor, migration, food, and culture. He is excited to be a GSA at the Rockefeller Center and is open to meeting people from all over Latin America.

Claudia G. Pineda, GSE

Claudia G. Pineda is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). She earned a Master?Äôs in Risk and Prevention in Adolescence at Harvard and was trained as a psychologist in Colombia. Her dissertation focuses on the ethnic identity and psychosocial development of immigrant Colombian youth in the context of an after-school intervention. Her research interests include youth development approaches that build on young people?Äôs strengths rather than dwelling on weaknesses and pathology. During the spring of 2007 she will be teaching a module on Immigration and International Approaches to Risk and Resilience at HGSE. Pineda published an encyclopedia chapter with Michael J. Nakkula on Students at Risk and is currently co-editing a book on Colombia Migration from a Transnational Perspective with Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Ana Maria Bidegain.

Monica Ricketts, GSAS History

Monica Ricketts is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She received her B.A. in history from Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is currently working on her dissertation, Pens, Politics, and Swords. Men of Letters and Military Officers in the Breakdown of the Spanish Empire. Peru-Spain, 1790-1830. Monica has been awarded several fellowships including the John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowship and the Mellon Fellowship in Latin American History. She has coedited the book "Jorge Basare, el hombre, su obra y su tiempo" published by the Instituto Riva Aguero in Peru. Monica was a teaching fellow for "Democracy, Equality and Development in Mexico." She also coordinates the Boston Area Latin American History Workshop.

Sergio Silva-Castaneda, GSAS History

A native from Mexico City, Sergio Silva-Castaneda studied economics at CIDE in Mexico and currently is a Ph. D candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. His dissertation topic is economic development under authoritarian rule focusing on the cases of Mexico and Spain in the 20th century. He has taught in Mexico for the ITESM-CCM and has worked for the UN-ECLAC and the Mexican think tank CIDAC. He has worked as a teaching fellow in many different topics (from statistics to Colonial Latin America) in Mexico and at Harvard University.

Patricia I. Vieira, GSAS Romance Languages and Literatures

Patricia I. Vieira is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is currently finishing a Ph.D. dissertation on political fiction and art in Latin America and Portugal. Her areas of specialization are Lusophone literature, culture, art, and film. Her current research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American and Portuguese fiction, contemporary Lusophone poetry, literary theory, and women's studies in the Portuguese-speaking world. Some of her recent publications include articles on authors Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Mia Couto, Lidia Jorge and Antonio Lobo Antunes, as well as on film and propaganda.