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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2023-24 PROJECT CYCLE
Short-Term Research Stays in 2023-24
Alianza MX launched a call for applications from May to June 2023 for funding support for UC graduate students to conduct short-term research stays in Mexico between Fall 2023 and Summer 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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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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