{"id":11129,"date":"2025-05-29T16:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/?p=11129"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:10:46","slug":"clacs-2024-25-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/clacs-2024-25-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"CLACS 2024-25 Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re pleased to announce that during academic year 2024-25 we supported 30 UWM faculty, UWM students, and regional faculty with <strong>over $65,500\u00a0in funding<\/strong>. These funds supported conference presentations, field research, and less-commonly taught language studies.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all our faculty and student awardees!<\/p>\n<p>We are able to offer this funding thanks to a grant program at the U.S. Department of Education: jointly with <a href=\"https:\/\/lacis.wisc.edu\/\">our colleagues at UW-Madison<\/a>, CLACS is a proud <strong>National Resource Center (NRC) for Latin America<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/grants-and-programs\/grants-higher-education\/ifle\/national-resource-centers\">NRC program<\/a> reflects a United States commitment to building domestic expertise in foreign language and world area studies, thereby advancing knowledge about all major world areas at universities and in the broader national community.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><u>Student Awards<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This academic year we awarded over<strong> $57,000<\/strong> in funding to 16 undergraduate and graduate students:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Graduate Research-Conference Award<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Boluwaduro (African &amp; African Diaspora Studies)<\/li>\n<li>Marissa Cudworth (Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding)<\/li>\n<li>Amy Klemmer (Anthropology)<\/li>\n<li>Allison Kusick (Geosciences)<\/li>\n<li>Cole Schmidt (Geosciences)<\/li>\n<li>Alma Vazquez-Smith (Clinical Psychology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Ruggiero-Handelman Field Research Award<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Edwin Guevara (Public Health)<\/li>\n<li>Billie Harrison (Biological Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>Kaitlyn Lund (Conservation Science\/Geography)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Donald Shea Study Abroad Scholarship<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Gonzalez (Political Science)<\/li>\n<li>Eliana Monfre (Business)<\/li>\n<li>Kristian Zenz (English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Foreign Language &amp; Area Studies Summer 2025 Graduate Students<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Grace Files (Women\u2019s and Gender Studies) \u2013 Florida International University\u2019s Haitian Summer Institute, <em>Haitian Creole<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Eric Schmitt (Engineering) \u2013 Tulane University\u2019s Summer in Brazil Program, <em>Portuguese<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Foreign Language &amp; Area Studies AY 2024-25 Undergraduate Students for the study of Brazilian Portuguese<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Gonzalez (Political Science)<\/li>\n<li>Lucca Marcello (Film Production)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><u>UWM Faculty Research-Conference Awards<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>9 UWM faculty and teaching academic staff received support for their field research\/presentations, totaling <strong>$6,000<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susana Antunes (Spanish &amp; Portuguese)<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Davies Cordova (Global Studies, French &amp; Francophone Studies)<\/li>\n<li>C\u00e9sar Ferreira (Spanish &amp; Portuguese)<\/li>\n<li>Pamela Harris (Mathematics)<\/li>\n<li>Brian Mueller (History)<\/li>\n<li>Gabriela Nagy (Clinical Psychology)<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Nelson (History)<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Rei-Doval (Spanish &amp; Portuguese)<\/li>\n<li>Alex Wier (Music, Percussion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><u>Regional Faculty Research-Conference Awards<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>5 Regional Faculty from both public and private institutions received support for their field research and conference presentations, totaling <strong>$2,500<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Coon (Spanish, University of Minnesota Morris)<\/li>\n<li>Gustavo Fares (Spanish, Lawrence University)<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Medeiros (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Marquette University)<\/li>\n<li>Astrid Ochoa Campo (Global Cultures &amp; Languages, UW-La Crosse)<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Pinzl (English &amp; World Languages, Viterbo University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re pleased to announce that during academic year 2024-25 we supported 30 UWM faculty, UWM students, and regional faculty with over $65,500\u00a0in funding. 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Congratulations to all our faculty &hellip; <span class=\"ls-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/clacs-2024-25-award-recipients\/\"><em>Continue Reading<\/em> &raquo;<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"author":1108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[73,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CLACS 2024-25 Award Recipients - Center for Latin American &amp; Caribbean Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/clacs-2024-25-award-recipients\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CLACS 2024-25 Award Recipients\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019re pleased to announce that during academic year 2024-25 we supported 30 UWM faculty, UWM students, and regional faculty with over $65,500\u00a0in funding. 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