Grassroots Development Fellows

The Inter-American Foundation is the only institution that specifically funds academic research on grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2012, the IAF awarded 16 Grassroots Development Fellowships to Ph.D. students who have advanced to candidacy in U.S. universities and are undertaking dissertation research throughout the hemisphere. Fellows were selected on the strength of their academic records, their proposals and their potential contributions to grassroots development. All are U.S. citizens except as noted.

 Fellow            

 Institution

 Research Focus

Carolina Arango-Vargas
(Colombia)
Syracuse University Autonomy, resistance and development among women farmers' organizations in rural Antioquia, Colombia
Kelly Bauer George Washington University  Indigenous mobilization in Chile
Paula Dias Brown University Oil, environmental education and governance in Brazil
Maria dos Santos Soares
(Brazil)
University of Texas Theatrical performances by Companhia dos Comuns and the challenge of racial equality in Brazil 
 Jael Goldsmith Weil Northwestern University Citizens’ strategies for changing economic, political and welfare regimes in Chile between 1954 and 2010 
Summer Harlow  University of Texas  The digital transition of grassroots and activist media in El Salvador 
Brett Hartman University of California-Santa Barbara  Gully rehabilitation and the restoration of wet meadows in the Bolivian Andes 
Sandra Ley-Gutiérrez
(Mexico)
Duke University  Political participation and voting behavior in the midst of violence in Mexico 
Katherine Maich University of California-Berkeley  Post-civil war violence and domestic-worker movements in Peru and Guatemala 
Elizabeth Mason-Deese  University of North Carolina  Movements of unemployed workers in Buenos Aires 
Brian Palmer Rubin University of California-Berkeley  Interest organizations and development policy in Mexico 
Paula Pinheiro
(Brazil),
University of Florida Co-management of natural resources in the Lower Juruá Extractive Reserve, Brazil 
Manuel Prieto Montt
(Chile),
University of Arizona Water reforms and the indigenous people of the Atacama Desert 
Rodrigo Renteria-Valencia
(Mexico),
University of Arizona Environmental conservation and the transformation of indigenous expertise in Mexico 
Czarina Thelen  University of Texas  Maya youth theater, social justice and armed violence in Guatemala 
Mary Wilhoit  Northwestern University Rural Peruvian women and the privatization of communal farmland.
 

 

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