Former Award Winners

2009 Graduate Research Grant

Jacqueline Kent, Department of History
Public Performance: Free Blacks Negotiating Equality in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, 1884-1895

Mary E. Gibbs, School of Music
A Study of Cuban Choral Music through the Arrangements of Electo Silva

Ariel Gutierrez, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Theater in the global city: Buenos Aires 1998-2008

Melva Persico, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Writing from the Peripheries: Afro-Hispanic and Belizean Garifuna Women Writers

Michelle Ramlagan, Department of English
Public Spaces; Private Bodies: Policing Women and the Environment in Post-Independent Trinidad

Esneider Valencia, School of Music
An Instrument at the Crossroads: Contemporary Columbian Saxophone Music

2009 Barret Prize

Sheri Harrison
Dissertation: “Nationalism and Self Representation: negotiating sovereignty in Jamaican cultured landscapes"

Myriam Mompoint
Dissertation: “Symbolic Exchanges: Haiti, Brazi and the ethnopolitics of identity"

2008 Graduate Research Grant

Ana Salazar Parra
Heat-shock and seed germination of woody savanna species: a new approach to understanding the effect of fire on plant communities of central Brazil

Edwin Murillo
Uncanny Periphery: Existential(ist) Latin American narrative of the 1930s and 1940s

Elizabeth Cerejido
Photography and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba

Lara Barrett Cahill
Islands: The Body as Text and Choreography as Cross-Cultural Poetics

John Twichell
How do Democratic Institutions and Economic Interests Impact the Risk for Resource Curse? The Cases of Latin America and the Caribbean

Kacey Link
Culturally Identifying the Performance Practice of Astor Piazzolla

Kellie Montoya
Modern Day Multinational: Friends of Foe? A case study of Chile

Paola Prado
ICT Adoption in Community Technology Centers in the Dominican Republic

2008 Barret Prize

Lina del Castilio
Dissertation: “The Science of Nation Building: A history of geographic sciences in Columbia, 1821-1921"

2007 Barret Prize