2001 CLAS Summer Research Tinker Reports

The following are reports filed by 2001 Tinker Summer Research Grant Recipients.

Deolinda Adão Department of Spanish and Portuguese Theatrical Production in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon, 1900-1920

Andres Alvarado Program in Latin American Studies Government Policy & Regulation on Microfinance in Colombia

Renata Andrade Energy and Resources Group Water for Life: Voices from the São Francisco River Valley

Maria Caridad Araujo Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Off-farm Employment: An Opportunity for the Rural Poor

Juliana Barbassa Program in Latin American Studies The Role of Immigrant Remittances in Cuba Today

Kira Blaisdell-Sloan Department of Anthropology The Rancho Ires Archaeological Project: Contact & Colonialism in Northeastern Honduras

Jose R. De la Torre Curiel Department of History Indians, Missionaries, and Spanish Settlers in Northern Mexico, 1767-1835

Lisa Goldman Graduate School of Public Health La Casa de La Mujer, Reproductive Health of Migrant Women Project

Aaron Golub Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Welfare Analysis of Informal Transit Services in Brazil and the Effects of Regulation

Laurel Imhoff Graduate School of Public Health A Prospective Study of Dengue Infection in Schoolchildren in Nicaragua

Andrea Jeftanovic Department of Spanish and Portuguese Chilean & Brazilian Female Writers of the 20th Century: A Comparison Study

Mary Beth Kaufman School of Law Holding Multinational Corporations Accountable for Environmental & Cultural Harms: The Texaco in Ecuador

Claudia Leal Department of Geography The Pacific Lowlands of Colombia at the turn of the 19th Century

Karen Levy Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management An Analysis of Small-Scale Fisheries in Southern Sonora, Mexico

Jelani Mahiri Department of Anthropology Investigating the Role of Education in the Lives of Street Children in São Paulo, Brazil

Alexis Martin Graduate School of Education Liberation of Hegemony? The Educational Experience in Cuba

Krisjon Rae Olson Department of Anthropology Xo'leb'al Chelem: Between Children in the Ixil Town of Santa Maria Nebaj

Andrew Paxman Program in Latin American Studies William Jenkins, The Private Sector and the Mexican State, 1910-1946

David Pohl Program in Latin American Studies Sustainable Forest Management in Chile

David Quist Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Mapa de Otros: Tools for an indigenous-community based monitoring and evaluation of the introduction of transgenic maize in Oaxaca, Mexico

Zelideth M. Rivas Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Conceptions of 'Furusato': Nikkei Literature in Brazil

Sally Roever Department of Political Science Popular Representation in a Context of Institutional Collapse: The Case of Peru

Hillary Ronen School of Law Fact Finding Mission in Support of Human Rights Litigation Before the Inter-American System

Patricia Sánchez Graduate School of Education Transnational Latina Youth: A Participatory Research Project

Sarah Schoellkopf Department of Spanish and Portuguese Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo: Two groups, two paths. Are both still viable in 21st century Argentina?

Carl Somers Department of Sociology Workers, Doctors, Bureaucrats & the Politics of Staying Well in Argentina: A Case Study of the Argentine Health Industry, 1940-2000

Anna Jessica Theissen Department of Anthropology Spirits Narratives: Collective Memory at the Intersection of Trauma & Social Suffering

Alejandra Torres Program in Latin American Studies Coping Strategies Employed by Bogota's Internally Displaced

Camilo Trumper Department of History A Visual History at the Intersection of "Public" and "Private": The Chilean Coup and the Estadio Nacional

Paula Worby Graduate School of Public Health Guatemala's Land Acquisition Programs and Community Well-Being