Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley

2002 CLAS Summer Research
Tinker Reports

The following are reports filed by 2002 Tinker Summer Research Grant Recipients.

Adebiyi Adesina
School of Public Health
Sustainable Rural Health Development
through Civil Society in Nicaragua

Jennifer Alix
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics
Deforestation in the Commons:
A Village-Level Approach

Debra Berliner
School of Public Health
Nicaraguan Youth Empowerment through Mass Media

Tanya Bobo
School of Public Health
Salmonella and Shigella: Serotypes and Resistance patterns in the Caribbean

Joe Bryan
Department of Geography

Protecting Indigenous Land Rights on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

Jennifer Casolo
Department of Geography
A Wo/Man You Can Trust?: Gendered Reworkings of Civil Society in Post-Hurricane Mitch Colón, Honduras

Ryan Centner
Department of Sociology
Spaces of Boom, Bust, and Blur
in Buenos Aires:
Three Porteño Neighborhoods
in the Neoliberal Moment

Rachel Anne Chico
Department of History
Print Culture and the Circulation of Information in 19th-century Mexico

Allison Davenport
Boalt Hall School of Law
Cross-Border Migrant Advocacy

Chloe Dillon
Department of Comparative Literature
Brazilian Modernism and Ethnography

Maisha Tulivu Fisher
Graduate School of Education
Choosing Literacy: African Diaspora Participatory Literacy Communities

Timothy Seth Griffiths
Boalt Hall School of Law
Defending Access to Education in the Dominican Republic

Gustavo Alonzo Guerra Vásquez
Comparative Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Guatemalan Textiles in the Global Market

Gisele Henriques
Goldman School of Public Policy

Organizing to Revitalize the São Francisco River: The Truká people, local fishermen, the church and NGOs

Maiah Jaskoski
Department of Political Science
Civil-Military Relations in Chile: An Assessment of the
Military’s Involvement in Non-Defense Projects

	Veronique Laughlin Boalt Hall School of Law The Effects of 'Zero Deficit' on Social, Cultural and Economic Rights in Argentina
Kristin J. Madigan Boalt Hall School of Law How Argentine Legal Institutions are Responding to Current Political and Economic Change
	Karen Melvin Department of History Urban Religions: Mendicant Orders in the Cities of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century New Spain
Margaret Metz Department of Integrative Biology Seedling Dynamics in Amazonian Ecuador
Samuel Monder Department of Spanish and Portuguese Thinking Fiction: Philosophical Narratives in XX Century Argentina
Luis Carlos Monterrosa Latin American Studies The Displaced People of Colombia
	Raquel Moreno-Peñaranda Energy and Resources Group The Brazilian Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) and the Environment
Tracey Osborne Energy and Resources Group Economic feasibility of bioenergy from sugarcane waste
Marcelo Pellegrini Department of Spanish and Portuguese Poetry and Essay in Latin America: Two Genres, One Way
Rachel Post Graduate School of Journalism The role of collective memory in Mexico today: a closer look at human rights abuses unveiled by the Fox Administration
Elena Shever Ripps Department of Anthropology Producing Petroleum, Naturalizing the Nation
Pete Smith Latin American Studies Myrna Mack Case in Historical Perspective
Joseph Sutton Latin American Studies Grassroots Community Development in Candeal Pequeno, Brazil
Annelise Wunderlich Graduate School of Journalism Community Media in Brazil’s Favelas
	Daniel Eric Zinsmeister Boalt Hall School of Law Promotion of Defense of Human Rights in Brazil Through International Legal Mechanisms