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CLAS
Tinker & Bridges Field Research Grants
Summer 2008
UPDATED March
7, 2008
The
Tinker & Bridges Field Research Grants
provide travel support for summer field research in Latin
America and on the Iberian peninsula. All currently registered
UC Berkeley graduate students who will be enrolled in courses
during fall 2008 are eligible to apply. Awards are determined
by a faculty selection committee and are limited to round-trip
economy airfare.
Application Deadline: Monday, March 24, by 4:00 pm.
For more information, contact Jean Spencer at jean_s
(at) berkeley.edu.
The
archive linked to the right contains reports from past grant
recipients.
Download
application materials:
-
Grant
guidelines (.pdf) UPDATED MARCH 21 - Wrong date for meeting
- Application
form (.doc) UPDATED MARCH 20
- Faculty
Evaluation form (.doc)
Tinker Field Research Grants
Summer 2007
Research
Updates
The
Tinker Grant provides travel support for summer field research
in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. All currently registered
UC Berkeley graduate students who will be enrolled in courses
during fall 2007 are eligible to apply. Awards are determined
by a faculty selection committee and are limited to round-trip
economy airfare.
Tinker Field Research Grants
Summer 2006
Archive
of 2006 Student Research Reports
The
Tinker Grant provides travel support for predissertation
summer field research in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
All currently registered UC Berkeley graduate students who
will be enrolled in courses during fall 2006 are eligible to
apply. However, preference will be given to those whose research
reflects the major interests of the Tinker Foundation which
include: economic policy and governance, public policy and
environmental studies.
Center
for Latin American Studies
Tinker
Field Research Grant Reports
Summer 2005
This
past summer CLAS, along with the Tinker Foundation, provided
travel funds to 33 graduate students conducting research
in Latin America. Grants were awarded to students from several
departments and professional schools for research on topics
ranging from pottery
analysis in Bolivia to the growth
of cooperatives in Venezuela to the work
of Brazilian author Bernardo Carvalho.
Archive
of 2005 Summer Research Reports-->
CLAS
promotes student research through several grant programs:
• Summer
Field Research grants cover
travel expenses so that graduate students can conduct pre-dissertation
investigations
abroad.
• Small travel grants are awarded to graduate students so that
they can present papers and gain exposure to a network of researchers
in their field at the Latin American
Studies Association International Congresses.
• Working groups that CLAS funds bring together graduate
students and faculty on issues related to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Working
Groups
CLAS
funds Working Groups on
issues related to Latin America and the Caribbean. A Working
Group brings together groups of faculty and graduate students
to discuss a common set of questions from a variety of
disciplinary, theoretical and/or methodological perspectives.
CLAS will provide up to $500 per year which may be used
for photocopying materials, transcription and printing,
costs related to meetings, or visiting speakers (other
budget categories specific to the
program may be proposed). Proposals should include a
one-page description of the project, activities planned,
and background of the participants, as well as the name
of a faculty advisor. A separate page should include the
amount of funding requested and the categories of expense.
Existing working groups applying to continue their projects
should include a final report
of activities previously funded by CLAS. Please submit
proposals to Sara Lamson, Vice Chair of CLAS.
LASA
Travel Awards
CLAS is pleased to provide a modest travel grant to a limited number of graduate
students in order to help defray the cost of attending the Latin American Studies
Association International Congress in Montral, Canada. Preference will be given
to students presenting a paper at the conference. Please note that funding is
limited, and requests will be processed in the order received.
To apply, please submit the date, time and title of your talk along with a 150
word abstract to Dionicia Ramos at diony [at] berkeley.edu
DEADLINE: Monday, August 20, 2007
