LACIS is pleased to announce its Tinker-Nave Summer 2026 Field Research Awardees. Tinker-Nave Awardees are graduate students attending U.S. universities conducting pre-dissertation or masters thesis research in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. Congratulations to them all!
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Adriene Lane is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. The funds Adriene has received as a Tinker-Nave Summer 2026 Field Research Awardee will fund her research in Ecuador for her project titled: Examining the Linguistic Landscape of Intercultural Bilingual Education in Ecuador: Could English Support the Learning of Kichwa?
Alan Andrade Camacho is currently pursuing a PhD in Latin American literature, cultures, and politics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The funds Alan has received as a Tinker-Nave Summer 2026 Field Research Awardee will fund his research in San Salvador, El Salvador, for his project titled: The Spectacle of Knowledge: BINAES and the Cultural Politics of Authoritarianism.
Mario Pino Flores is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Political Science as a specialist in Comparative Politics and Methodology. The funds Mario has received as a Tinker-Nave Summer 2026 Field Research Awardee will fund his research in Brazil for his project titled: Unpacking Fragmentation: Casual Pathways Linking Party Systems to Democratic Erosion in Brazil.
Alexandre Espreafico Guelerman Ramos is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of Sociology. The funds Alexandre has received as a Tinker-Nave Summer 2026 Field Research Awardee will fund his research in Brazil for his project titled: The Political Economy of Agro-Developmentalism: Labor, Power, and Change in Brazil’s Agro-Industrial Complex.
Leonor Hidalgo is currently pursuing a PhD in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The funds Leonor has received as a Tinker-Nave Summer 2026 Field Research Awardee will fund her research in Medellin, Colombia, for her project titled: Psychological and Contextual Factors of Vaccine Hesitancy in Medellin, Colombia.
Elizabeth Rendon Betancur is currently pursuing a PhD on the Environmental Design track within Design Studies in the School of Human Ecology. The funds Elizabeth has received as a Tinker-Nave Summer 2026 Field Research Awardee will fund her research in Colombia for her project titled: Living Environments of Care: Continuity of Ancient Therapeutical Practices in Colombia.