The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS) is delighted to announce the Graduate Student Research Grantees for the Summer of 2025.

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 2025 semester.

Congratulations to this year’s cohort!

Alicia Piñar Díaz (MLL, Spanish and Portuguese): Rethinking Colonial Memory in Manila

Alonso Burgos (Sociology): “Self-Identify with Pride”: Neoliberalism, Recognition, and Population Politics in Peru

Ignacio Veraguas Caripan (MLL Spanish and Portuguese): Portentous Nature of Volcanoes: Image and Catastrophe in the Histórica relación del reino de Chile (1646) by Alonso de Ovalle

Julia Alves da Costa (Anthropology): Freezing the ocean: cryopreservation of Brazilian corals in a climate change reality

Mateus Mendoça (Sociology): The Brazilian community of food delivery workers in the UK and their fight against the platforms

Megan Niclay (School of Nursing): Biological citizenship and therapeutic markets: Chileans with rare diseases and their journeys towards claiming their right to health

Noah Nelson (School of Education): To the Left: The Makings of a Black Radical Pedagogy

Verónica Ríos Saavedra (MLL, Spanish and Portuguese): Production of “La hermana Mariana” when they film in Pucallpa (Peru)