Additional Information
For questions regarding the application process, or for more information on projects in a previous cycle, please contact Alianza MX.
Interested in submitting an application for a Short-Term Research Stay in Mexico?
Eligibility
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a master’s or doctoral-level program at a UC campus, and they must be hosted by a faculty member or researcher at a host institution in Mexico. The student’s research project plan must be approved by both a UC faculty advisor and Mexican host.
Funding
Funds may be used to supplement existing fellowship support, including up to $1,500 per month toward local living expenses, up to $800 total for one round trip to and from the research site, and up to $150 monthly toward short-term health insurance if not enrolled in UC SHIP during the term of the stay.
Applicants must complete an online application form and submit all supporting materials using the link below. Required supporting materials are listed in the call for applications. Applicants are responsible for securing all appropriate approvals and signatures prior to the submission of their application.
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Timeline of the Call: 2025-26 Project Cycle
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Date
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Submission deadline / Application period closes
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April 2026 (to be confirmed)
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Announcement of projects selected for funding
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July 2026 (to be confirmed)
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Start date for supported activities
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September 1, 2026
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End date for supported activities
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August 31, 2027
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CURRENT STAYS
Short-Term Research Stays in 2025-26
Alianza MX launched a call for applications in Winter 2025 for funding support for UC graduate students to conduct short-term research stays in Mexico between September 2025 and August 2026. Eighteen (18) students from eight UC campuses were selected for funding support. Please see below for details.
Students
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Project
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Alejandra Cano
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Native American Studies
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Davis
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Socio-Ecological Stewardship of Stingless Honey Bees: Transnational Conservation with Maya and Nahuatl Communities
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Brenda Alejandra Gonzalez Guerrero
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Goldman School of Public Policy
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Berkeley
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Gender Parity in Governance: Policy Lessons from Women’s Political Representation in Mexico and California
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Carlos Alberto Fitch
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Education
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Santa Barbara
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Embodying Fronteras: Body-Mapping Testimonios of Queer Transfronterizxs at the Mexicali-Imperial Borderlands
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Cole Shanks
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Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics
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Santa Cruz
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Sequencing of B-cell and T-cell Repertoires in the Mexico Biobank
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Crystal Raquel Barajas Rivera
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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Los Angeles
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Evaluating the efficacy of passive eDNA using a community science approach
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Emanuel Suarez Jimenez
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Education
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Santa Cruz
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Sustaining US-MX Community Pathways for Digital Justice in Education
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Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki
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Classics
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Santa Barbara
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Migration Governance and Media Discourses in Mexico
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Grecia Perez
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Anthropology
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Riverside
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Surveillance, Blackness, and the Black Mexican Experience in Conservation and Climate Change Discourses
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Hugo Daniel Peralta-Ramírez
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History
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Los Angeles
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The Indigenous Towns of Colonial Oaxaca, 1500-1810
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Jasmin Hernandez Santacruz
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School of Education
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Irvine
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Bilingualism Across Borders: Adaptation in Perception of Code-Switched Speech
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Jenica Moore
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Politics
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Santa Cruz
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Art as Activism
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Jesse (Jesús) Nazario
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Ethnic Studies
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Berkeley
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Analyzing the Consejo de Pueblo Nahuas in the Alto Balsas (CPNAB) and Nahuas in Guerrero
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Leonardo Ociel Espinoza Zepeda
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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
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San Diego
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“Modeling of Enceladus’ Water Plumes: A Binational Initiative for Future Astrobiological Missions.”
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Marissa Sandoval
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Evolution & Ecology
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Davis
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Exploring the chemical ecology of the orchid bee Euglossa obrima when its obligate orchid is in bloom
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Paulina Andrea Rojas Rojas
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Land, Air & Water Resources
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Davis
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Tribal Water Experiences Between California and Mexico
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Petria Russell
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Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics
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Santa Cruz
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Pathogen-Driven Selection and HLA Diversity in the Mexican BioBank
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Reinaldo Cabrera Perez
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School of Education
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Irvine
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Desarrollo del Lenguaje: Examining Developmental Language Disorder and Social Environments in Monolingual and Bilingual Children in the United States and Mexico
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Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez
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School of Education
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Irvine
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Latinx Youth as AI Designers: Building Their Communities’ Present and Future
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PREVIOUS STAYS
Short-Term Research Stays in 2024-25
Alianza MX launched a call for applications in February 2024 for funding support for UC graduate students to conduct short-term research stays in Mexico June 2024 and May 2025. Twenty-five (25) students from eight UC campuses were selected for funding support. Please see below for details.
Students
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Project
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Amanda Sadri
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Psychology
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Riverside
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Childhood Aggression in Mexico: Beliefs, Expectations, and Expressions in Residential and Familial Childcare Contexts
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Angie Belen Monreal
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Sociology
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Irvine
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The Cholo Jacket: Analyzing Performance and Behaviors While Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Caison Packard Warner
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Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology
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Santa Cruz
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Methodological Development for the Identification and Sequencing of Plasmids in Food Isolates of E. coli
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Christella Maldonado
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History
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Riverside
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Transnational Chicanx Iconographies in Public Memory: 1920s-1970s
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Dario Trujano-Ochoa
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Economics
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Santa Barbara
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New Approaches to Handling Misinformation: Lessons from the Mexican and American Infospheres
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Elena Losada
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Sociology
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Santa Cruz
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The Specter of Zapata in the Mexican Metropolis: Zapatismo and Urban Political Desires amidst planetary urbanization
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Elena Ojeda
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Economics
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Berkeley
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Left Behind: The Bracero Program and Mexican Women
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Emanuel Suarez Jimenez
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Education
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Santa Cruz
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US-MX Community Pathways for Digital Justice in Education
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Guadalupe Aileen Mendoza
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Education
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Irvine
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Bilingüismo a Través de la Frontera: The Spanish-English Bilingual Experience in California & Mexico
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Jennifer Martinez
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Ethnic Studies
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Riverside
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Re-creating and Re-membering: Deported Recipes for Ontological Resurrection
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Jordan Mosqueda Juarez
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Economics
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San Diego
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Private Transportation Markets and Endogenous Commuting Costs / Domestic Trade Frictions
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Jose Alexander Suazon Gloria
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Political Science
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Los Angeles
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New Approaches to Handling Misinformation: Lessons from the Mexican and American Infospheres
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Kristina Brandveen
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Public Health
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San Diego
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Gluing is Safer than Cutting Leather: A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Using Carcinogenic Products in Shoemaking Workshops of Ticul, Yucatán
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Marissa Sandoval
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Evolution & Ecology
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Davis
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What Gives Perfumed Bees a Leg-Up: Exploring the Chemical Ecology of an Orchid Bee Signaling System
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Nathaly Ortiz
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Ethnic Studies
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Riverside
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Landscapes of Grief: An Ethnography of Memory-Making from Zacatecas
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Nicole A. Vargas Fuentes
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Education
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Irvine
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Language and Emotions in Context: A cross cultural approach to emotion and bilingual language regulation
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Paulina Rojas
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Land, Air & Water Resources
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Davis
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Assessment of Basin Council Implementation
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Ricardo Delgado Solis
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Chicana & Chicano Studies
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Santa Barbara
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Deportation of Queer Latinx Men from the United States to Mexico
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Salvador Gutierrez Peraza
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Ethnic Studies
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Berkeley
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Tapachula: A Migrant City
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Santiago Cantillo-Cleves
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Economics
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San Diego
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The Where, When and Why of Rallies
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Sara Moya
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Geography
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Los Angeles
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Archiving Family Separation: Mending Distance and Indefinite Separation through Transnational Sending and Receiving of Objects
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PREVIOUS STAYS
Short-Term Research Stays in 2023-24
Alianza MX launched a call for applications in Spring 2023 to fund UC graduate students’ short-term research stays in Mexico between September 2023 and August 2024. Twenty-one (21) students from eight UC campuses were selected for funding support. Please see below for details.
Students
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Project
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Abraham Hawley Suarez
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Religious Studies
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Berkeley
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Imaginaries of religion and the secular in Mexican interreligious organizations
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Adriana Ramirez
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Sociology
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Berkeley
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“De Aquí y De Allá”: Young Return Migrants’ (Re)Integration in Mexico
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Aharon E. Arvizu Ramirez
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Santa Barbara
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El Expediente del atentado y el Asunto Arroyo: Towards an Inquiry into Historical Truth
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Alisher Batmanov
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Economics
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San Diego
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Stigma, Beliefs & Demand for Mental Health Services Among University Students
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Ana Zepeda
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Plant Science
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Davis
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Food Security and Compounded Disaster Resiliency in a Community Kitchen in Merida, Mexico
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Andrea Paz-Lacavex
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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Santa Cruz
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Extension of UC Alianza Mexico project "UC-UABC collaborative kelp forest restoration studies"
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Cheyenne McKinley
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Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
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Santa Barbara
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Identifying the effect of light on lunar rhythm in bioluminescent ostracods
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Christine Theunissen (Delia)
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History of Art
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Berkeley
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Mirror Effects: Figuration, Fragmentation, and Globality in Mexican, Moroccan, and US modern art
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Cristina Mendez
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Education
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Berkeley
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Revitalizing Mam Language and Culture: Politics, Activism and development of identities in the US, Mexico, and Guatemala
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Emily Jorgenson
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Anthropology
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Irvine
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Circuits of Citizenship: Transnational Digital Nomads in Mexico
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Fernando David Márquez Duarte
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Political Science
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Riverside
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Jawil: The Cucapáh Indigenous group’s thought and struggle to survive
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Francisco Ulloa
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History
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Davis
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Vivos los llevaron Vivos los queremos: Rosario Ibarra, and the Raise of Human Rights Movements in the Mexican Public Realm, 1974-1990
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Gwendolen Pare
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Irvine
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Feminist Virality
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Idaliya Grigoryeva
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Economics
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San Diego
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Stigma, Beliefs & Demand for Mental Health Services Among University Students
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Jesus Nazario
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Ethnic Studies
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Berkeley
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Articulating Cintli Sovereignty: Nahua Farmers and Contemporary Maize Relations in The Land of Fresh Water
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Juan Campos
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Political Science
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Berkeley
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The Politics of Police Reform and Organized Crime
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Lucas Ruppel
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Davis
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Conceptualizations, Strategies, and Futurieites of Queer Care at the Border
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María Villalpando Páez
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Energy Resources Group
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Berkeley
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Backyard agriculture and peasant women’s knowledge in the Mixtec Region, Oaxaca. A participatory approach towards strengthening food sovereignty
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Rachel Kaufman
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History
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Los Angeles
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Quería Enseñar: Conversa Transmission, Memory, and Adaptation in Mexico and New Mexico
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Silvana Larrea Schiavon
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Public Health
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Berkeley
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Access to sexual and reproductive health services among in-transit migrant women in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities from a systems perspective
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Wendy Liz Arbey López Márquez
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Linguistics
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Berkeley
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Completion of a Grammar of Nuntajɨɨyi
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