2006 Award Winners


Barrett Prize - Best Dissertation on a Latin American Topic

Lee Williams
Dissertation:  “The Metafiction (and Modernism) of Quiroga, Arlt and Onetti: Debunking the Pre-Boom Lacuna
Ph.D. Foreign Languages and Literatures

Ericka Suzette López Godoy
Dissertation:  Explaining Political Adaptation of Former Hegemonic Parties:  Is Eastern Europe the Future of Mexico?
Ph.D. International Studies

Doctoral Travel Grants

Ana Ibarra
Biology, Ph.D. program
“Effects of Forest Fragmentation on the Distribution and Movement of Terrestrial Insectivore Birds of the Rain Forest”

Sherri-Marie Harrison
English, Ph.D. program
“Boom Tune a Blow Dem Mind:  Perspectives on a Jamaican Cultural Nationalism”

Nadia Indra Johnson
English, Ph.D. program
“Performing Masculinities:  The Rise of Cultural Nationalism in the Caribbean”

Lara Barrett Cahill
English, Ph.D. program
“Soy mestiza y no lo soy?  The Riddle of Race and the Face of the Nation in Gonzalo Roig’s Cecilia Valdes”

Teresa Frontado
History, Ph.D. program
“The Emasculated Barbarian: Gendered Discourse on Civilization and Power in Nineteenth Century Venezuela”

John Twichell
International Studies, Ph.D. program
“The Effects of Social Capital and Cooperación in Mexico:  A Comparative Study of Two Oaxacan Villages

William Ryan Hamlet
Latin American Studies, M.A. program
“Women with Guns”

Lindsey Howe
Latin American Studies, M.A. program
“What does it mean to be a Quepeño? A case study of community dynamics in Quepos, Costa Rica”

Undergraduate Awards

Jennifer Alvarez
“The Face of Invisibility within the Cycle of Poverty in Brazil”

Mikaela Jayashekaramurthy
“An Investigation of the Impact of Multinational Oil Corporations and Neoliberalism on the Indigenous Identity in the Ecuadorian Amazon”

Victoria Quintana
“Donde florece el framboyán” (Colección de poemas sobre Cuba)