The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies has awarded a number of grants. They are as follows:

Summer Travel Grants -- Undergraduate

Summer travel research grants were awarded to 14 Harvard students who plan to do honor theses on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Funds were provided by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Arango Fund, Fundación Miguel Alemán, and the Real Colegio Complutense.

The recipients, along with their fields of study and topics, are:

Katrina Barnett, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Spain), Representations of AIDS in Popular Spanish Culture; Joseph Cleemann, History (Cuba), American Gangsters in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba; Nancy Macalastair Dammann, Environmental Science and Public Policy, (Peru), The Role of Culture and Other Factors in Determining Conservation; Mark Engler, (El Salvador), Tutelia Legal: Politics, Human Rights, and the Catholic Church in Today's El Salvador; Priti Gor, Economics, (Mexico), Why do Women Work in the Home? A Look at Urban Informal Sector Homework; Timothy Griffiths, Social Studies, (Costa Rica), Local Economic and Social Impacts of Conservation Projects;

Carrie Grimes, Anthropology, (Honduras), Historical Photographic Documentation of Landscape Development at Maya Archaeological Site of Copan; Sarah Jackson, Anthropology, (Honduras), Investigation of Late Classic Maya Political Hierarchy at Copan, Honduras Through Hieroglyphic Texts; Diana Patuel, Social Studies, (Chile), Judicial Academies in Latin America; Lauren Reiss, Social Studies, (Peru, Ecuador, Argentina), The Fusion of Populism and Neo-liberalism; Samuel Rosaldo, Social Studies (Dominican Republic), Race and the Dominican Republic's Presidential Elections, '94 and '96; Jane Rubio, Social Studies, (Venezuela), Urban Religious Movements; Alejandro Sepulveda, Linguistics, (Mexico), Theoretical Linguistic Study of Tarascan, an Amerindian Language; Jacqueline Soohen, Social Studies, (Mexico), The Role of Art in the Zapatista Rebellion.

Summer Travel Grants -- Graduate and Professional Students

The Rockefeller Center has awarded summer travel research grants to 25 graduate and professional school students to conduct research in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Funds were provided by the Tinker Foundation Inc., the Mellon Foundation, Fundación México en Harvard, the NOMOS Program of the Center for International Affairs, and the Real Colegio Complutense.

The recipients, along with their fields of study and topics, are:

Marlyse Baptista, Linguistics, (Cape Verde Islands), Development of an orthographic system for Cape Verdean Creole; Mark Burns, Comparative Literature, (Mexico), Mexican Literature and Cartography; Gabriela Carrion, Spanish, (Spain), Literary Representations of Marriage in Spanish Golden Age Theater; Karla Davis-Salazar, Anthropology, (Honduras), Ancient Maya, Water Management and Social Inequality in Copan, Honduras; Oliver Dinius, History (Brazil), Industrial Relations in Brazil's 'Steel City', Volta Redonda; Naama Ende, School of Public Health, (Colombia), Health Care Reform; Brodwyn Fischer, History, (Brazil), The Legality of Poverty: A History of Citizenship and Criminal Justice in Rio de Janeiro 1930-64;

Nathaniel Fuster-Felix, GSD, (Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Haiti), The Tropicization of the International Style; Karina Galperin, Romance Language and Literature, (Spain/Portugal), The Origins of the Novel in Spanish Golden Age; Sandra Garcia, School of Public Health, (Mexico), Women's Perceptions of Power and Contraceptive Concordance: Interpersonal Relational Power and Self-Empowerment Among Women in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico; Jeanne Giraldo, Government (Chile), Impact of "Neoliberal" Economic Reform on Political Parties; Bret Gustafson, Anthropology, (Bolivia), Guarani Movements, NGOs and Decentralization in Bolivia; Geronimo Gutierrez, Kennedy School of Government, (Mexico), Political Economy of Federalism; Mala Htun, Government, (Brazil, Argentina, Chile), Legal Reforms Related to Women's Rights;

Annie Joseph, School of Public Health, (Brazil), Mannose-binding Lectin -- A potential probe for predicting susceptibility to HTLV-I and Dengue infections among Northeast Brazilians; Monica Maher, Divinity School, (Mexico, Chile), Women, Human Rights and the Catholic Church in Latin America; Graciela Márquez, History, (Mexico), The Political Economy of Mexican Protection, 1872-1910; Veronica Nyhan, Government, (Ecuador), Partnerships around poverty and politics in Ecuador; Kathleen O'Neill, Government, (Colombia, Bolivia), Decentralization in Latin America;

Katrina Olds, Divinity School, (Spain), The Spiritual Pestilence of beatas revelanderas: Gender, Heresy and the Inquisition in Spain 1545-1590; Richard Penglase, Anthropology, (Brazil), Urban politics, popular culture and violence in Rio de Janeiro; Jalane Schmidt, Religion, (Cuba), Syncretism in Afro-Atlantic religions; Jonathan Schrag, History, (Mexico), Public Works and Industrial Enterprise; Ana Cristina Terra de Souza, School of Public Health, (Brazil), Malnutrition among infants, children and pregnant women in Ceara, NE Brazil; Matthew Thompson, Biology, (Chile), Water uptake by a coastal desert shrub in the Chilean Atacama.

Faculty Research Grants

Twelve scholars have received 1997 Faculty Research Grants from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. The grants support research by Harvard faculty in all fields related to Latin America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Latin American "diaspora" in the United States.

The recipients, along with their fields of study and topics, are:

Ana María Amar Sánchez, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Mexico), Literature without Borders; Ana María Amar Sánchez, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Mexico), Crossroads in Contemporary Latin American Narrative; Luis Cifuentes, Romance Languages and Literature, (Spain), The Relationship of Latin American writers living in Europe and Spanish writers working in Spain; Martha Field, Harvard Law School, (Central America) Civil Justice Systems in Latin America; William Fisher, Harvard Law School, (Central America), Legal Systems in Central America Governing Real Property and Intellectual Property; Philip Heymann, Harvard Law School, (Latin America), Development of Prosecution Offices in Latin America; Richard Levins and Tamara Awerbuch, School of Public Health, (Cuba), Regulation of Population and International Health; Johanna Liander, Romance Languages and Literatures, (Portugal), Curriculum Development for Portuguese Courses at Harvard; Mónica Ponce de León, Graduate School of Design, (Venezuela), The Complete Works of Carlos Raul Villanueva; Doris Sommer, Romance Langauges and Literatures, (United States), Development of Courses in the Direction of Film Studies; Aaron Tornell, Economics, (Peru, Brazil, Argentina), Reform from within: Theory and Evidence; Rossana Vaccarino, Graduate School of Design, (Brazil), Roberto Burle Marx's Legacy at Risk: A Contextual and Temporal Study in Southeast Brazil.