This LACS summer research grant provides funding for in-country research costs for graduate pre-dissertation work in Latin America or the Caribbean. (The grant does not cover international airfare; students should also apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant for airfare.) LACS will offer up to three research grants to qualified graduate students who need to conduct field research over the summer of 2021. Grant amounts may vary from $500 to $1,500.

The graduate minor in Latin American (and Caribbean) studies allows you to acquire in-depth knowledge of the region, which will enhance your expertise for future research and professional advancement. The main requirement is to have a Latin American studies field faculty member as a member of your committee.

Contact: lacs@cornell.edu

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching English in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu

Learn about the Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program. Open to first- and second-year students, this 2-year program provides generous support to carry out internationally-focused research, develop leadership skills, engage with community projects overseas, and join a global network of like-minded scholars from more than a dozen universities. Join us to learn more about the program, its benefits, and the application process, as well as tips for approaching potential faculty research mentors and writing a successful application

For many Cubans, Fidel Castro’s Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba’s turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans’ contested memories of the Revolution’s roots and results over its first twenty years. Cubans’ battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. Hybrid event, join us in person in Stimson Hall G01 or through zoom.

In 1821, as insurgent forces battled Spanish royalists in what would become the last throes of the Wars of Independence in the northern Andes, representatives of the newly constituted republic of Gran Colombia (present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama) passed a gradual emancipation law to address the problem of slavery. At the center of this law was a Free Womb law that declared legally free the children of enslaved women born after the law's promulgation while bonding these children to their mothers' masters until the age of eighteen. This presentation explores the emergence of Colombia's gradual emancipation law, in addition to the violent financial lives of Free Womb children in the autonomous rainforests and gold mines of the Colombian Black Pacific. Although gradual emancipation was ostensibly designed to destroy slavery, Barragan shows how slaveholders in Colombia came to have even greater stake in it.

Come meet students, faculty, and staff and learn about the organizations that are part of the Latinx community at Cornell.

OPEN TO THE CORNELL COMMUNITY!

Register via Campus groups: https://cglink.me/2ee/r1182710

Hosted by the Latino Living Center, Latina/o Studies Program, Latinx Student Success Office.

This session will provide PhD students with information on the Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program. The program offers seminars, workshops, and faculty mentoring to PhD students in the social sciences and humanities who are developing research projects abroad or domestic research projects on topics that connect to global issues. Students receive up to $5,000 for summer research. Workshop and seminar costs are also covered.

Contact: programming@einaudi.cornell.edu

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program supports doctoral students conducting research in modern languages or area studies for six to 12 months. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Travel to Western European countries is not eligible.

Contact: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Contact: irm@einaudi.cornell.edu

Join us to learn about our interdisciplinary minor, summer 2022 internships, and other funding opportunities.

The Latin American Studies minor is an undergraduate minor across disciplines that will allow students to explore the history, culture, government, politics, economy and languages of Latin America and the Caribbean. Qualifying courses can be found in almost every college.

Contact: lacs@cornell.edu