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
Douglas Kraft
Dissertation: “Making West Indian Unwelcome: Bananas, Race and the Immigrant Question in Izabal, Guatemala, 1900-1929"