Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley

2005 Tinker Summer Research Reports

The following are reports filed by 2005 CLAS Summer Research Grant Recipients.

	Nicole Altamirano Spanish and Portuguese "Revisionist Mythmaking in the Poetry of Spanish Women Writers from the 1920s-1940s"
Bridget Arce Spanish and Portuguese "Troping the Body, Re-Textualizing the Nation"
	Sonia Barrios Spanish and Portuguese "Tracing the Figure of the 'Cangaceiro' in Brazilian Literature and Film"
Sara J. Brenneis Spanish and Portuguese "The Interweaving of Fiction and History: Post-Franco Spanish Narrative from the Margins"
	José Wellington Alves dos Santos Integrative Biology "Patterns of seed consumption and dispersal by the Neotropical rodent, Trinomys yonenagae: implications for behavioral ecology and conservation"
Maria Jose Fernandez Integrative Biology "Metabolic cost of hovering in the giant hummingbird"
	Catalina Garzón Environmental Science, Policy, and Management "Indigenous Environmental Planning and Participatory Conservation in Colombia: Challenges in the Management of Overlap Zones between Reservations and Protected Areas"
Victor Goldgel Carballo Spanish and Portuguese "Fashion and Nation-Building"
	Mónica González Spanish and Portuguese "Cuban Cartographies of José Martí: Crossing the Borders of the (Other) National Discourse"
Carl Gustafson Boalt Hall School of Law "Brazilian Indigent and Political Violence Prosecution"
	Monica Hahn School of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health "Adolescent Reproductive Health Needs Assessment and Health Education Project"
Paul Hathazy Sociology "In the Frontiers of Decency: police practices and perceptions in the city of Cordoba, Argentina"
	Forest Kaser Energy and Resources Group "Assessing the Sustainability of a Household UV Disinfection Technology in Rural Baja California Sur, Mexico"
Kathryn Killackey Anthropology "Human-Ecology Interaction on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia"
	Micah Lang Energy and Resources Group "The Socio-Cultural Aspects of Water Use and the UV Tube in Rural Baja California Sur, Mexico"
Tovin Lapan Graduate School of Journalism / Latin American Studies "Killer Cola?"
	Daniel Lavelle Latin American Studies "Land Reform in Venezuela"
Doris Maldonado Anthropology "Caminos de Michoacán: Routes Toward an Understanding of West Mexican Archaeology"
	Sarah Moody Spanish and Portuguese “Locating Brazil: Notions of Place and Nation in Bernardo Carvalho’s Nove Noites and Mongólia”
Raquel Moreno-Peñaranda Energy and Resources Group “The Commons’ Sense: Social Forest Management Provisions for Tragic Dispossessions in Herrera de Soria, Spain”
	Daniel Nemser Latin American Studies “Pan o palo: Food and Rebellion in Mexico”
Juan Thomas Ordóñez Anthropology “Internal Displacement in Colombia: Preliminary Research on the Interface between Community Associations and National and International Aid and Development Programs”
	Camila H. Piñeiro Latin American Studies “Participatory Democracy in Venezuela”
Greg Rafert Agricultural and Resource Economics “Microfinance: Do borrowers benefit from small-scale agricultural loans?”
	Alejandro Reyes-Arias Latin American Studies “Social Images of 'Street Children' in Brazil”
Fermin Reygadas Energy and Resources Group “UV Tube: a socioeconomic investigation of the use of a household water disinfection system in rural Baja California Sur, Mexico”
	Zelideth María Rivas East Asian Languages and Cultures “Jun-nissei Literature and Culture in Brazil: Conceptions of Memory, Adaptation and Victimization”
Petra Raquel Rivera African Diaspora Studies “Cultural Representations of Race and National Identity in Puerto Rico”
	Andrew P. Roddick Anthropology “Pottery Analysis of the Late Formative (200 BC-400 AD), Lake Titicaca, Bolivia”
Carmen Rojas City & Regional Planning “Defining a City Through Public Infrastructure: The Case of Bogota, Colombia”
	Maki Tanaka Anthropology “Tourism development in socialist Cuba: Old Havana and its residents”
Adriana M. Valencia Energy and Resources Group “Renewable Energy Opportunities: The Potential of Windpower in Colombia”
	Sarah Wells Comparative Literature “Facundo and its Readers: Mapping Fiction and History in Argentina”