Graduate Research Grants

Fall 2011

Kathleen Kole
(History)
“Urbanization of Early Colonial Lima From an Environmental Vantage Point”

Anne B. McGinness
(History)
“Atlantic Reformation: A Cross-confessional Study of Martyrs in the Christianization of Brazil, 1554-1654”

Nara Pavao
(Political Science)
“Source of Corruption Accusations and Candidate Evaluations”

Meredith Whitnah
(Sociology)
“Legacies of Inequality: Combating Gender-Based Violence in South Africa”

Spring 2011

Max Deardorff
(History)
“Tridentine Pedagogy in the New Kingdom of Granada, 1550-1622”

Alex Dukalskis
(Political Science)
“Understanding Transformationist States: The Role of Ideas in Liberation and Oppression”

Chad Kiewiet de Jonge
(Political Science)
“Political Learning and Democratic Commitment in Latin America”

Krystin Krause
(Political Science)
“The Politics of Crime: News Media, Public Opinion, and Political Rhetoric in Latin America”

Fall 2010

David Lantigua
(Theology)
“Idolatry and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of  Religious Toleration in Bartolomé de la Casas”

Javier Osorio
(Political Science)
“Geo-Referenced Database of Daily Events of Drug-Violence in Mexico”

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