Additional Information
For questions regarding new proposal applications in the 2024-25 cycle, or for more information on projects in a previous cycle, please
contact AlianzaMXResearch@ucr.edu.
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.
A complete application submitted to UC Alianza MX must include the items listed below. These must be submitted electronically in PDF format via this Google form prior to the application deadline in order for the application to be considered complete.
Call goes live in February
Application deadline in March
Funding awards announced in May
Research stays between June of application year and May of following year
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Timeline of the Call: 2024-25 Project Cycle
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Date
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Submission deadline / Application period closes
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March 22, 2024
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Announcement of projects selected for funding
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May 20, 2024
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Start date for supported activities
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June 2024
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End date for supported activities
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May 2025
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2024-25 PROJECT CYCLE
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 between the Summer of 2024 and Spring of 2025. Twenty-five (25) students from eight UC campuses were selected for funding support. Please see below for details and check back here soon for updates on these research projects.
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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Elena Ojeda
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Berkeley, Economics
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Berkeley
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Left Behind: The Bracero Program and Mexican Women
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Yuri Fraccaroli
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Feminist Studies - UC Santa Barbara
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Santa Barbara
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Usos del pasado: Archivo Memoria Trans México
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Sara Moya
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Geography Department, UCLA
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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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Jordan Mosqueda Juarez
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San Diego, Economics Dpt.
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San Diego
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1. Private Transportation Markets and Endogenous Commuting Costs/ 2. Domestic Trade Frictions
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Marissa Sandoval
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UC Davis Department of Evolution and 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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Amanda Sadri
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UC Riverside, Department of 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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Christella Maldonado
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UC Riverside/ History
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Riverside
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Transnational Chicanx Iconographies in Public Memory: 1920-1970's
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Ricardo Delgado Solis
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UC Santa Barbara Department of Chicana and 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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Emanuel Suarez Jimenez
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UC Santa Cruz, Education Department
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Santa Cruz
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US-MX Community Pathways for Digital Justice in Education
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Sienna Ruiz
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UCLA, Department of Anthropology
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Los Angeles
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Externalizing the Borderlands: Rethinking U.S. immigration policy, migrant health, and the politics of care at the Mexico-Guatemala border
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Kristina R. Brandveen
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UCSD-SDSU Joint Doctoral Faculty, SDSU School of Public Health, Department of Environmental 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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Santiago Cantillo Cleves
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San Diego, Economics and GPS
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San Diego
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The Where, When and Why of Rallies
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Caison Packard Warner
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Santa Cruz 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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Guadalupe Aileen Mendoza
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University of California, Irvine. School of 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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Nathaly Ortiz
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Riverside, 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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Sophia Rodriguez
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UC Riverside, Anthropology
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Riverside
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Transnational Knowledge: Purépecha Health Beliefs and Practices in a Western Medicine Environment
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Nicole Annette Vargas Fuentes
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UC Irvine, School of 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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Elena Losada
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Sociology Department, University of California Santa Cruz
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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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Dario Trujano Ochoa
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UCSB, Department of 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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Angie Belen Monreal
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UC Irvine 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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Jennifer Martinez
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UC Riverside, Department of 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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Jose Alexander Suazon Gloria
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UCLA, Department of 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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Stephanie Valadez
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Santa Cruz - Music Department
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Santa Cruz
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Nahua Resilience in the Reverberation of Colonialism
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Paulina Andrea Rojas Rojas
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UC Davis, Land, Air and water resources department
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Davis
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Assessment of Basin Council Implementation
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Salvador Gutierrez Peraza
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UC Berkeley, Ethnic Studies Department
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Berkeley
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Tapachula: A Migrant City
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2023-24 PROJECT CYCLE
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, and check back here soon for updates on these research projects.
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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Adriana Ramirez
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Sociology
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UCB
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“De Aquí y De Allá”: Young Return Migrants’ (Re)Integration in Mexico
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Christine Theunissen (Delia)
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History of Art
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UCB
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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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UCB
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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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Jesus Nazario
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Ethnic Studies
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UCB
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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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UCB
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The Politics of Police Reform and Organized Crime
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María Villalpando Páez
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Energy Resources Group
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UCB
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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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Silvana Larrea Schiavon
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Public Health
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UCB
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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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UCB
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Completion of a Grammar of Nuntajɨɨyi
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Ana Zepeda
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Plant Science
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UCD
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Food Security and Compounded Disaster Resiliency in a Community Kitchen in Merida, Mexico
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Francisco Ulloa
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History
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UCD
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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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Lucas Ruppel
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Spanish & Portuguese
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UCD
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Conceptualizations, Strategies, and Futurieites of Queer Care at the Border
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Emily Jorgenson
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Anthropology
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UCI
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Circuits of Citizenship: Transnational Digital Nomads in Mexico
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Gwendolen Pare
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Spanish & Portuguese
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UCI
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Feminist Virality
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Rachel Kaufman
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History
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UCLA
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Quería Enseñar: Conversa Transmission, Memory, and Adaptation in Mexico and New Mexico
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Fernando David Márquez Duarte
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Political Science
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UCR
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Jawil: The Cucapáh Indigenous group’s thought and struggle to survive
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Abraham Hawley Suarez
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Religious Studies
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UCSB
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Imaginaries of religion and the secular in Mexican interreligious organizations
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Aharon E. Arvizu Ramirez
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Spanish & Portuguese
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UCSB
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El Expediente del atentado y el Asunto Arroyo: Towards an Inquiry into Historical Truth
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Cheyenne McKinley
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Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
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UCSB
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Identifying the effect of light on lunar rhythm in bioluminescent ostracods
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Andrea Paz-Lacavex
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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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UCSC
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Extension of UC Alianza Mexico project "UC-UABC collaborative kelp forest restoration studies"
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Alisher Batmanov
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Economics
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UCSD
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Stigma, Beliefs & Demand for Mental Health Services Among University Students
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Idaliya Grigoryeva
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Economics
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UCSD
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Stigma, Beliefs & Demand for Mental Health Services Among University Students
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