Travel & Research Awards

 *New!*   LATIN AMERICAN VISITING RESOURCE PROFESSORSHIP

CLAS is pleased to announce a new program of LATIN AMERICAN VISITING RESOURCE PROFESSORS funded by a Vanderbilt Enhancing Graduate Education grant. This program will fund two distinguished Latin American scholars, politicians, or writers per year to come to Vanderbilt for approximately four weeks to participate in a graduate seminar, offer a non-credit special topic seminar, and to interact more widely with graduate students.  Application deadline is April 10, 2008.
Visiting Resource Professorship Application 2008.doc

 K'iche' Immersion Program

The University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies, in partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American Studies, will offer a new summer intensive immersion language program in K'iche' Maya on site in Nahualá, Guatemala. The program will be offered from June 23-August 1, 2008. This is a FLAS-approved summer language program. Full program details and application instructions may be found at http://clas.uchicago.edu/kiche_summer.shtml. A poster with details is attached. Please direct all inquiries to Josh Beck, Associate Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago, jpbeck@uchicago.edu or (773) 702-8420.
 

 FLAS Awards
2008 Recipients-
    K'iche' Maya: Doc Billingsley, Andrew Larason, Jamie Zuehl
    Portuguese: Joanna Elrick, Jack Willey

 The CLAS-CFA Latin American Summer Travel Award
2008 Recipients-
    Juri Bottura, LaKisha Grant, Katie Caljean, Lauren Kohut, Pablo Martinez, Amy McLachlan, Vanesa Miseres, Jennifer Zovar

 The Simon Collier Travel Award
Simon Collier Travel Award Application
2008 Recipients-
    Charlton Yingling, Kasia Szremski
      
 CLAS Faculty Curriculum Development Awards
deadline: 31 March 2008
      2007 Recipient Report:  Eakin, Fowler

     

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the Center five Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for Portuguese or a Latin American Indigenous Language in the amount of $670,000 for 2006-2010.  These fellowships offer an academic year stipend of $15,000 and a tuition award of $12,000.