For questions on the Call for Latino Studies Project Proposals or for assistance identifying potential collaborators, please contact AlianzaMXResearch@ucr.edu.
Interested in submitting a Latino Studies Project proposal?
Eligibility
Proposals must be led by a UC principal investigator (PI) and include collaborators from at least one other UC campus. Collaborators from partner institutions in Mexico are not required but are encouraged. Alianza MX can assist with identifying collaborators.
Funding
Proposal submissions can request up to $150,000 USD in seed funding over a period of up to 24 months. Funds can support field research, conferences and workshops, and project staff salaries and benefits, but may not be used for student tuition and fees or to cover department overhead or indirect costs.
Application
Alianza MX opens a call for proposals in the late Spring and the application period remains open until late Summer. Funding awards are announced in Fall and research projects begin during the Winter.
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Timeline of the Call
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Launch of the call / Application period opens
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June 16, 2025
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Submission deadline / Application period closes
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August 29, 2025
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Announcement of projects selected for funding
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November 2025 (to be confirmed)
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Start date for selected research projects
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February 1, 2026
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2025-2027 Project Cycle
Cauces Sónicos: Creative Music Making Across the Borderlands
This project explores nodes of cross-border interaction of musical communities, musical migration, intergenerational musical creativity, and horizontal processes of teaching and learning in music. Building on imaginative urban interventions through the UCSD Community stations, this project adds a further layer of artistic exploration and community engagement that emphasizes validating local and community knowledge while using music workshops and performances to serve diverse populations of youth, seniors, migrants, and local neighborhoods.
Principal Investigator: Wilfrido Terrazas, UC San Diego
UC Collaborators: UC Irvine
MX Collaborators: Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Semana Internacional de Improvisación
2025-27 Project Cycle
Logistics Corridors and Culture in the Mexican American and Mexican Periphery
This project studies the ways that the emergence of logistical capitalism has reshaped the cultural, economic, and political connections of Mexican-Americans with Mexico on both sides of the border. It highlights the ways that logistics capital has reshaped local landscapes, working conditions, and connections of the peripheries of Mexico City, Tijuana, and the Inland Empire of Southern California, including the rezoning of ranching communities and impacts on the environment and health.
Principal Investigator: Alfonso Gonzales Toribio, UC Riverside
UC Collaborators: UC Berkeley
MX Collaborators: Center for Technical and Higher Education (CETYS), Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM)
2023-2025 Project Cycle
MEX Clásicos: Diversifying the Classics
This project produces Spanish-language adaptations of theater classics, transformed by the unique perspectives of Mexican playwrights, as well as picture-book adaptations for children, based on the robust Mexican tradition of children’s literature. It expands on UCLA’s Diversifying the Classics project, which introduces Hispanic classical theater to new audiences and helps the stage reflect the multilingual reality of communities in Los Angeles and across the United States, and the Golden Tongues initiative, which commissions English adaptations of Hispanic classics by LA-based playwrights.
Principal Investigator: Barbara Fuchs, UC Los Angeles
MX Collaborators: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL)
Performances
UNAM International Theater Festival (FITU): – Barbara Fuchs, Nuevas dramaturgias sobre el teatro clásico Novohispano (2023) – Juan Carrillo, Historia de un amor (2024) – Paola Izquierdo and Fernando Villa, Posibilidades de diálogo con textos áureos (2024) UCLA LA Escena Festival: – David Gaitán, La tinta de mi honra (2024) – Ismael Rojas, La última gran aventura de la Monja Alférez (2024) – Los Colochos, Historia de un amor (2024) |
Children’s Books
In press with UANL: – Fuenteovejuna, Lope de Vega – La vida es sueño, Calderón de la Barca Forthcoming with UANL: – El animal de Hungría, Lope de Vega – El rey naciendo mujer, Vélez de Guevara – La fuerza de la costumbre, Guillén de Castro – Valor, agravio y mujer, Ana Caro |
2023-2025 Project Cycle
Breaking Barriers: Gender and Transnationalism in the Mexican Revolution
This project examines the transformative nature of the Mexican Revolution and its impact on women and gender. A binational group of leading historians, students, and community members will also explore the participation of Mexican American women and men, which is rarely discussed in the historical record, to help better understand how this experience shaped Mexican American lives and struggles for civil rights.
Principal Investigator: Verónica Castillo, UC Santa Barbara
UC Collaborators: UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles
MX Collaborators: College of Mexico (COLMEX), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Casasola Foundation (Fundación Casasola), Mora Institute (Instituto Mora), National Museum of the Mexican Revolution
2022-2024 Project Cycle
Labor + a(r)t + orio: Latinx Art as Research
This project expands the study of US Latinx art, particularly mid-career and new artists, through collaborative production of podcast interviews by UC students with visual artists organized through the UC Berkeley Latinx Research Center. It also supports research and curatorial collaboration with The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside.
Principal Investigator: Laura Pérez, UC Berkeley
UC Collaborators: UC Davis
Latino Studies
Latinos in a Changing California
In 1987, the California Legislature (via Senate Concurrent Resolution 43) charged the University of California with examining important policy relevant issues concerning the state’s growing Latino population. The UC Office of the President created a task force comprised of scholars, professionals, and community leaders to study these issues and produce a report. The Challenge: Latinos in a Changing California (1989) recommended focusing research on a core set of issues—including immigration, rural communities, labor, bilingual education, criminal justice, and women’s issues—as well as establishing new research centers on each UC campus.
The UC Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) at UC Riverside subsequently committed to funding research and creative activity in the area of Latino Studies, and Alianza MX continues to support the examination of Latino identity and culture in the context of contemporary U.S.-Mexico relations.
Additional Information
For questions regarding project proposals, or for more information on projects in a previous cycle, please contact Alianza MX.