{"id":4328,"date":"2026-03-31T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:50:11","slug":"laclxs-summer-research-grantees-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/2026\/03\/31\/laclxs-summer-research-grantees-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LACLxS Summer Research Grantees 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS) is delighted\u00a0to announce the Graduate Student Research Grantees for the Summer of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s winners will present their research at a colloquium during the Fall 2026 semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to this year\u2019s cohort!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leana Mason, Sociology.&nbsp;\u201cEmbodied Resistance in the Wake of Commodified Blackness: Jab&nbsp;Jab&nbsp;in Grenada.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Leana Mason<\/strong>\u00a0(Sociology):\u00a0\u201c<em>Embodied Resistance in the Wake of Commodified Blackness: Jab\u00a0Jab\u00a0in Grenada.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Christian\u00a0Giussepe\u00a0Ram\u00edrez<\/strong>\u00a0(MLL Spanish &amp; Portuguese):\u00a0<em>\u201cLengua muerta: Po\u00e9ticas sobre Guaquer\u00eda, Arqueolog\u00eda y Arte Precolombino en el siglo XX en Colombia.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Laura Henao<\/strong>\u00a0(Political Science):\u00a0\u201c<em>Criminalized Politics: Ideology, Armed Coalitions, and the Varieties of State Repression.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hans Frex<\/strong>\u00a0(MLL Spanish &amp; Portuguese):\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Fight for Human Rights in the Black Pacific: Mery Cortez\u2019s Struggle for Justice in Chile.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Andrea Rodriguez Villafane<\/strong>\u00a0(Population, Family and Reproductive Health):\u00a0<em>\u201cAnalysis of the Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare Model in the Bolivian Amazon.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sophie D\u2019Anieri<\/strong>\u00a0(Anthropology)\u00a0<em>\u201cLanguage &amp;Crisis: Giving Voice to Violence in\u00a0JaliscanLiterature and Everyday Life.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Keely Kriho<\/strong>\u00a0(Political Science):\u00a0<em>\u201c(Re) conceptualizing Imperialism: Marxist\u00a0Dependentistas\u2019 Contributions to Theories of Imperialism in the late 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Century.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Valeria S. Acevedo Arguelles<\/strong>\u00a0(History of Medicine):\u00a0<em>\u201cSmallpox, Great Violence: An Afrocentric Reevaluation of the\u00a0Expedici\u00f3n\u00a0Filantr\u00f3pica\u00a0in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS) is delighted\u00a0to announce the Graduate Student Research Grantees for the Summer of 2026. 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