Meet LACIS’ Summer 2025 Tinker-Nave Field Research Award Recipients!

Liz Birkhauser is a Dual PhD student in Health Services Research in Pharmacy/Environment and Resources

Project: “Plant Knowlege Networks in Altered States and the Ecological Self”

Location: Napo Province, Ecuador

Tomas Ignacio Pino Flores is a PhD student in History

Project: “Solidary, Mutual Aid, and Horizontality in the Anthropocene: Genealogy of Anarchist Thought and Environmental Crisis in Latin America”

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Tara Mittelberg is a PhD student in Agricultural and Applied Economics

Project: “Rancher Perspectives on the Drivers, Opportunities, and Risks of Cattle Intensification in the Brazilian Amazon”

Location: Pará and Mato Grosso, Brazil

Anhele Sanchez Delgado is a PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese

Project: “Reclaiming Stories: Narratives of Memory and Identity”

Location: Lima, Peru

Micaela Wensjoe is a PhD student in Educational Policy Studies

Project: “Teacher Development Policy Appropriation in Rural Peru”

Location: Ucalayli, Peru

Hanna Schuricht is an MSW student in Social Work

Project: “Internalized Racism within Mestizo Populations and the Revitalization of Kichwa in Popular Music in Ecuador”

Location: Otavalo, Ecuador

Lukas Matthews is an M.S. student in the Information School

Project: “Geospatial Analysis of the Infrastructure and Demographics of the City of Goya, Argentina”

Location: Goya, Argentina

Rachel Wei Fen Tan is a PhD student in Political Science

Project: “Bots at the Border: The Political Economy of Border Safety”

Location: Mexico

Logan Krishka is a PhD student in Anthropology

Project: “Between Benchwork and the Bay, Science, Fishing, and Environmental Restoration in Brazil”

Location: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil