The Conference of Latin American Geographers provides CLAG Travel Grants to support student travel to our conference events. All people below received this award in the year indicated.
2024
PhD
Anika Rice, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Migration, Land Access and Gender at the Family Level in Guatemala”
Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo, Queens University
“Learning from Indigenous Shuar Ways of Knowing in the Cordillera De Transkutukú: Cultivating Relations with the More Than Human World Through Singing Shuar Ánents”
Jamie Gagliano, Rutgers University
“Greening the Paramilitary Zone: The Pursuit of “Sustainable Development” in Concepción, Paraguay”
Silvia Sánchez Díaz, University of Kansas
“Placing Ethnic Difference: The Economy of Handmade Production in the Ch’orti’ Maya Area”
Ana Lucía Araujo Raurau, McGill University
“What Are the Causes and Consequences of Growing Land Scarcity in Indigenous Territories in Amazonia?”
Meghan Albritton, Virginia Tech
“Mapping Syndemics and Extractivism in Guatemala”
Ingrid Diaz Moreno, UNC Chapel Hill
“Spatializing Life Stories: Plantation Geographies and Women Workers in the Oil Palm Industry in Colombia”
Mirella Pretell Gomero, Syracuse University
“The Maitsangara Tsuni (Tunchi Negro/Black Evil) in the Lives of Kukama Indigenous Women – 50 Years of Oil Extraction Impacting Their Livelihoods, Homes, and Bodies”
Masters
Carola Oliveras Rodríguez, Utrecht University
“Small Island Urbanization in the Caribbean: Balancing Urban Growth with Land Constraints in Aruba and Barbados”
Celeste Gunderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Oil Palm, Deforestation and Land Formalization in Ucayali, Perú”
Kaitlyn Anderson, University of Florida
“Resource Use, Household Economy, and Ecological Isolation in Indigenous Eastern Ecuador”
2023
PhD
William Baynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Rural and Indigenous Communities Evolving at the Frontiers: Tohono O’odham Mobility in the Sonoran Desert.”
Hernán Bianchi Benguria, University of Toronto
“Demystifying Electromobility: The Lithium Hinterland and Socioenvironmental Transformation in the Atacama Desert.”
Claudia Díaz-Combs, Syracuse University
“Initial Results from the Field: Urban Water Governance, Social Movements, and Working-Class Environmentalism in San Salvador”
Alisa Hartsell, Texas State University
“Racialized Asylum and the Violence of Temporary Legal Status for Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers”
Clayton Lucas, Oklahoma State University
Contested territories around Lake Texcoco, Mexico: Local original peoples, their land, and protected ecological territories”
Parisa Rinaldi, Universidad de los Andes
“Like harvesting tarulla: the decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp”
Masters
Lidiya Beida, University of Toronto
Urban entrepreneurs, rural conservationists: Shipibo-Konibo artisan livelihoods across the changing landscape in the Ucayali river basin, Peruvian Amazon”
2020
PhD
Laura Blume, Boston University
“Narco Robin Hoods: Community Support for Illicit Economies and Violence in Rural Spaces”.
Supervisor: Taylor Boas.
Jordan Cissell, University of Alabama
“Human Landscape Modification in Belize: Possible Implications for Crocodile Hybridization”.
Supervisor: Michael K. Steinberg.
Hannah Legatzke, University of Minnesota
“The Social Equity of Community-based Ecotourism and its Impacts on Livelihood Strategy and Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study in the Maya Biosphere”.
Supervisor: Dean A. Current.
Anais Zimmer, University of Texas at Austin
“Future of Proglacial Landscape: Alpine Ecosystems and Deglaciation in the Tropical Andes and French Alps”.
Supervisor: Timothy Beach.
Masters
Mckenzie Allan , George Washinton University
“Occupying Porteño Public Space Through Art and Protest: Identifying Narratives of Gender in Buenos Aires’ Street Art and Feminist Movement”
Supervisor: Declan Cullen and Marie Price.
Talia Anderson , University of Arizona
“Multiscale Trends and Precipitation Extremes in the Central American Midsummer Drought”.
Supervisor: Kevin Anchukaitis.
David Poissant , McGill
“Regulating Access to Floodplain Lakes in the Peruvian Amazon”.
Supervisor: Oliver T. Coomes.
Nathan Treacy , University of Arizona
“Counter-Geographies of Displacement and Resettlement in the Era of Neoliberal Multiculturalism”.
Supervisor: Elizabeth Oglesby.
2018
Beth Tellman, Arizona State University
“An empirical approach to quantify the effects of narcotrafficking on deforestation in Central America”
Megan Mills-Novoa, University of Arizona
“Making Agricultural Entrepreneurs out of Campesinos: How water policy reform is reshaping agricultural systems under climate change in Piura, Peru”
Cristina Gauthier, Michigan State University
“Hydroelectric Infrastructure and Potential Groundwater Contamination in the Brazilian Amazon: Altamira and The Belo Monte Dam”
Sophie Fuchs, University of Texas at Austin
“Exploitation or Empowerment?: A Case Study of Women’s Experiences in the Cut-Flower Industry in Cayambe, Ecuador”
Dayna Cueva Alegria, University Kentucky,
“Is Cafe Femenino Fair Trade coffee enough for development?”
Katherine Cann, George Washington University
“Understanding and Uniting Diverse Stakeholder Interests Towards Successful Co-Management of a Coastal/Marine Protected Area in Panama”
Jennifer Langill, University of Toronto
“Coping with the Variability of Environmental Shock: The Implications of Four Flood Types for Local Livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon”
2014
Alexandra Pederson, Queen’s University
“Landscapes of Resistance: Community Opposition to Canadian Mining Operations in Guatemala”
Natasha Sadoff, The Ohio State University
“Hyper-development and Environmental Injustice in Panama City”
2012
Anne-Marie Hanson, University of Arizona
“Unclean and Unnatural: garbage networks, conservation space, and sanitary subjects in coastal Yucatán.”
Advisor: Sarah Moore
Rebecca Clouser, Indiana University
“Facing Fear: Explicit Connections between Fear and Development in Guatemala”
Advisor: James Biles
2010
Karina Benessaiah, Arizona State University
“We are all into shrimp”: Small-scale aquaculture and coastal livelihoods in Puerto Morazán, Estero Real, Nicaragua”
Advisor: B. L. Turner II
Christopher Hartmann, Ohio State University
“Uneven Urban Spaces: The Metabolism of Managua’s Solid Waste”
Advisor: Kendra McSweeney
2008
Jason Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara.
“How does migration to the U.S. and the resultant remittances influence fertility in migrant-sending Central American households?”
Advisor: David Carr
Richard Hunter, Louisiana State University
“Positionality, Perception, and Possibility in Mexico’s Valle de Mezquital”
Advisor: Andrew Sluyter
