LASA announces the winners of the grant FORD-LASA Special Projects 2026

December 1, 2025

LASA is pleased to announce the winners of the twentieth cycle of the FORD-LASA Special Projects, a grant possible thanks to the contribution of the Ford Foundation to benefit the LASA Endowment Fund.  

Selected Projects

Colonial Resonances: Approaching the Musical (Mis)encounters of the Early Modern Atlantic through Performance and Research

Kittiya Lee
California State University-LA

Anna More

Universidade de Brasília

Miguel Valerio

University of Maryland

Lisa Voigt
Yale University

Itinerant School of Ocean Justice: Participatory Methodologies for Collaborative Work between Academia and Fishing Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Catalina Garcia Chaves
Universidad de Amsterdam

Rogelio Ramos Torres
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

Celia Ruiz De Oña Plaza
CIMSUR-UNAM

Víctor Manuel Velázquez Durán
The Southern Border College (ECOSUR) 

Medellín Workshop on Things that Work

María José Alvarez Rivadulla
Universidad de Los Andes

Javier Auyero
University of Texas at Austin

Reproductive Justice in Latin America

Julieta Chaparro Buitrago
University of Amsterdam

María Ximena Dávila
University of Texas at Austin

Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda
University College London

Martina Yopo Díaz
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Selection Committee

The project selection committee in this cycle was presided over by Gisela Zaremberg, Vice President of LASA and President-elect, FLACSO México, and had the participation of Yanina Welp, Geneva Graduate Institute; Ernesto Isunza, CIESAS; Mariana Aparicio, UNAM; Cecilia Bobes, FLACSO México; Nathalie Bouzaglo, Northwestern University; and Valeria Añon, Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET. 

About LASA

The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest professional association in the world for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America. With over 13,000 members, over 60% of whom reside outside the United States, LASA is the one association that brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse occupational endeavors, across the globe. LASA's mission is to foster intellectual discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas, promote the interests of its diverse membership, and encourage civic engagement through network building and public debate.

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