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The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center is pleased to announce The Tinker Field Research Grant. This travel grant is open to MA and Doctoral Students attending Stony Brook University in any field of Latin American and Iberian Studies. The Tinker program encourages preliminary travel and exploratory fieldwork by graduate students who are in the process of defining their future research and/or Ph.D. proposals. Supported by a grant from the Tinker Foundation (New York), it is being matched by Stony Brook University contributions from a range of programs and departments interested in the advancement of new global scholarship. LACS expects to award 15-20 travel awards, each worth in the range of $1,000-1,750 each, depending on the destination.

ELIGIBILITY AND REQUIREMENTS:

The Tinker Grant covers primarily TRAVEL COSTS (*airfare and associated travel costs with some per diem expenses are covered based on merit of request) for the preliminary fieldwork experience, including the possibility of in-country travel for multi-sited research. Graduate students in good standing from any discipline or program are welcome to apply--be they social scientists or humanists, natural scientists or professional MA students with an international dimension to their work. “Field-work” is broadly defined: it can be traditional archival or data-collection, or it can involve interviews, surveys, textual analysis or it may involve immersion with the subject, groups, prospective colleagues, cultural institution, site or environment of future research and writing. Tinker funding is available only for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (excluding Puerto Rico) and Spain or Portugal. (*Students working on Puerto Rico, Belize, Indigenous languages, Latinos in the U.S., or Anglophone or Francophone Caribbean are unfortunately not eligible. )

Priority will be given to students at the defining moment of their research, prior to proposal writing, major grant funding, previous fieldwork and actual dissertation writing. LACS will favor students who have not had prior opportunities to travel to their prospective research sites, but funding is possible for students to travel to their home countries. (* Students are eligible for only one Tinker grant per graduate career.) Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. There are no nationality restrictions.

2010 Tinker Grantee Narratives

2009 Tinker Grantee Narratives

2008 Tinker Grantee Narratives

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