The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS) is delighted to announce the Graduate Student Research Grantees for the Summer of 2024.

LACLxS grants support summer research and travel in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grants are awarded competitively, and the competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines at Johns Hopkins University. This year’s winners will present their research at a colloquium during the Fall 2024 semester.

Congratulations to this year’s cohort!

Rhiannon Clarke, Spanish & Portuguese, Mexico: “Poet in [Mexico]: Spanish Networks of Exile and the Reception of Lorca in Mexico”

Jaclyn Dyson, International Health, Guatemala: “Process Evaluation of Maternal-Child Health Interventions in Guatemala”

Elena Garcia Fariña, Public Health, Bolivia: “Exemplars in Global Health: Bolivia – Exemplar in Family Planning”

Maria Haro, Sociology, Argentina and Brazil: “The Political Economy of Chinese Investments in Argentina and Brazil: The Energy Sector”

Leana Mason, Sociology, Grenada: “Jab Jab in Grenada: A Cultural Production of Anti-Colonial Resistance”

Alicia Piñar Díaz, Spanish & Portuguese, Spain: “Representing Caribbean Alterity in Contemporary Spain”

Isabel Plakas, School of Nursing, Mexico: “La Sala: Mexicali, Mexico. Experience with a Safe Consumption Site among Women Who Use Drugs”

Marco Pomini, History of Art, Peru: “Imagining Mediterranean Conflicts from the Colonial Andes”

Grant Tore, Environmental Health and Engineering, Chile: “The METALES Study: Measuring Exposures To Agrochemicals and their Link to Renal Disease: Fostering Informed Decision-Making through the Report Back of Environmental Exposures”

Alfredo Walls, Spanish & Portuguese, Mexico: “Queering the Archive: Neobaroque and Queer Mexican Literature”