Call for Applications 2023–2024

Short-Term Research in Mexico for Graduate Students

In May 2023, Alianza MX launched a a call for applications for funding support for UC graduate students to conduct short-term research stays in Mexico. The purpose of this new initiative is to help young scholars accomplish specific laboratory, library, or field research tasks while hosted by a partner institution in Mexico.

Following evaluation of applications by a UC faculty review committee, 21 students were selected for funding support. Please see below for details and check back here soon for updates on these research projects.

Students
Abraham Hawley Suarez
Religious Studies
UC Berkeley
Imaginaries of religion and the secular in Mexican interreligious organizations
Adriana Ramirez
Sociology
UC Berkeley
“De Aquí y De Allá”: Young Return Migrants’ (Re)Integration in Mexico
Aharon E. Arvizu Ramirez
Spanish & Portuguese
UC Santa Barbara
El Expediente del atentado y el Asunto Arroyo: Towards an Inquiry into Historical Truth
Alisher Batmanov
Economics
UC San Diego
Stigma, Beliefs & Demand for Mental Health Services Among University Students
Ana Zepeda
Plant Science
UC Davis
Food Security and Compounded Disaster Resiliency in a Community Kitchen in Merida, Mexico
Andrea Paz-Lacavex
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
UC Santa Cruz
Extension of UC Alianza Mexico project "UC-UABC collaborative kelp forest restoration studies"
Cheyenne McKinley
Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
UC Santa Barbara
Identifying the effect of light on lunar rhythm in bioluminescent ostracods
Christine Theunissen (Delia)
History of Art
UC Berkeley
Mirror Effects: Figuration, Fragmentation, and Globality in Mexican, Moroccan, and US modern art
Cristina Mendez
Education
UC Berkeley
Revitalizing Mam Language and Culture: Politics, Activism and development of identities in the US, Mexico, and Guatemala
Emily Jorgenson
Anthropology
UC Irvine
Circuits of Citizenship: Transnational Digital Nomads in Mexico
Fernando David Márquez Duarte
Political Science
UC Riverside
Jawil: The Cucapáh Indigenous group’s thought and struggle to survive
Francisco Ulloa
History
UC Davis
Vivos los llevaron Vivos los queremos: Rosario Ibarra, and the Raise of Human Rights Movements in the Mexican Public Realm, 1974-1990
Gwendolen Pare
Spanish & Portuguese
UC Irvine
Feminist Virality
Idaliya Grigoryeva
Economics
UC San Diego
Stigma, Beliefs & Demand for Mental Health Services Among University Students
Jesus Nazario
Ethnic Studies
UC Berkeley
Articulating Cintli Sovereignty: Nahua Farmers and Contemporary Maize Relations in The Land of Fresh Water
Juan Campos
Political Science
UC Berkeley
The Politics of Police Reform and Organized Crime
Lucas Ruppel
Spanish & Portuguese
UC Davis
Conceptualizations, Strategies, and Futurieites of Queer Care at the Border
María Villalpando Páez
Energy Resources Group
UC Berkeley
Backyard agriculture and peasant women’s knowledge in the Mixtec Region, Oaxaca. A participatory approach towards strengthening food sovereignty
Rachel Kaufman
History
UC Los Angeles
Quería Enseñar: Conversa Transmission, Memory, and Adaptation in Mexico and New Mexico
Silvana Larrea Schiavon
Public Health
UC Berkeley
Access to sexual and reproductive health services among in-transit migrant women in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities from a systems perspective
Wendy Liz Arbey López Márquez
Linguistics
UC Berkeley
Completion of a Grammar of Nuntajɨɨyi