Transnational Fellows
2002 Fellowship Recipients
Jaime Aguila
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Project Title: “Protecting México de Afuera: Mexican Emigration Policy, 1848-1940"
Host Institution: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Neyra Patricia Alvarado Solís
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.
Project Title: “Los tohono o' otham entre dos naciones: un estudio comparativo sobre sus transformaciones culturales en el marco de las relaciones antiguas entre las culturas de lo que hoy es México y Estados Unidos.”
Host Institution: University of Arizona.
Gustavo Alfonso Cano Hernández
Columbia University
Project Title: “The Mobilization of Mexican Immigrants in Chicago and Houston.”
Host Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Martha Idalia Chew Sánchez
University of California- Los Angeles
Project Title: “Masking Inequalities: Gender Performance and Sexuality in Transnational Mexican Communities in the United States. ”
Host Institution: University of Texas at El Paso
Matthew Dunne
University of Texas at Austin
Project Title:“A Comparative Study of the Transnational Aspects of Classical Guitar in Mexico and the United States. ”
Host Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Música.
Elaine M. Hampton
University of Texas at El Paso
Project Title: “Impact of the Maquiladora Industry on Education in Mexico.”
Host Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Programa Latinoamericano de Actividades en Población.
Tomás Martínez Saldaña
Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo Rural, Colegio de Postgraduados.
Project Title: “Los usuarios tradicionales del riego en Nuevo México y en el norte de México.” Host Institution: University of New Mexico.
Char Ullman
University of Arizona
Project Title: “English Matters? Mexican Transmigration and the Negotiation of Language and Identities in a Global Economy.”
Host Institution: CIESAS Occidente.
2003 Fellowship Recipients
Fernando Saúl Alanis Enciso
El Colegio de San Luis, A.C.
Project Title: “El impacto en la frontera México-Estados Unidos de la repatriación masiva de mexicanos durante la Gran Depresión (1929-1934)”.
Host Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso.
Juana de los Angeles Mejía Marenco
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Project Title: “Transnacionalismo femenino: una nueva visión del cuerpo, la maternidad y la salud”.
Host Institution: Hampshire College.
Juan Manuel Mendoza Guerrero
Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa.
Project Title: “Americanización, dieta y vendedores en español en El Paso, Texas, 1910-1920”.
Host Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso.
Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz
University of Texas at Austin.
Project Title: “Shared Sovereignty and Dual-Civic Participation: The Mexican Transnational Community and Mexican Politics.”
Host Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Gustavo Perez-Verdin
Universidad Autónoma Chapingo.
Project Title: “Evaluación de condiciones sociales y económicas en municipios forestales del Estado de Durango”.
Host Institution: Northern Arizona University.
Daniel Ramírez
University of California San Diego.
Project Title: “Migrating or Transgenic Faiths?: Rethinking Religious Pluralism and Cultural Flux in the Oaxacan Diaspora.”
Host Institution: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
Gerald Shane Lewis
Southwest Texas State University.
Project Title: “Prospects for Expanded Transnational, Alternative Tourism in Los Cumbres de Monterrey.”
Host Institution: CIESAS-Noreste.
2004 Fellowship Recipients
Deborah Anne Boehm
University of California, San Diego
Project Title: “Generación Transnacional/Transnational Generation: Gender and Nation Among Youth in a Transmigrant Mexican Community”
Host Institution: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Campus Iztapalapa-Department of Anthropology
Deborah Cohen
Southern Methodist University
Project Title: “Bordering Modernities:Race, Masculinity, and the Cultural Politics of Mexico-US Migration”
Host Institution: Colegio de Michoacán-Centro de Estudios Antropológicos
Tomas Cruz-Cruz
University of Texas at Austin
Project Title: “Effects of remittances on Consumption and Agricultural Practices in the Indigenous Chatino Region of Oaxaca, Mexico”
Host Institution: INAH-Oaxaca
Patricia H. Hamm
Iowa State University
Project Title: “The Transnational Politics of the Mexican Diaspora: A New Form of Doing Politics and its Consequences for U.S.-Mexico Relations”
Host Institution: UNAM-Centro de Investigaciones Sobre America del Norte
Miriam Jiménez Hernández
Lehman College
Project Title: “Transnational concerns: how responsive can members of Congress be?”
Host Institution: Smithsonian Institution-Department of Anthropology
Danna Alexandra Levin Rojo
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Project Title: “¿Conquistadores o Conquistados?: Identidad Hispana, Resistencia Cultural y Relaciones Interetnicas en el Condado de Rio Arriba, Nuevo México”
Host Institution: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque-Department of History
Martin Medina
Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Project Title: “Informal Transborder Recycling in Juarez / El Paso”
Host Institution: University of Texas at El Paso-Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Karen Lee Ogulnick
Long Island University
Project Title: “Empowering Indigenous Women and Children through Popular Education Programs in Mayan, Native American and Immigrant Communities” Host Institution: CIESAS-Centro Sureste
Julia María Schiavone Camacho
University of Texas, El Paso
Project Title: “Mexicans and Chinese in the Formation of Gender, Race, and Nation in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1910-1940”
Host Institution: INAH-CentroHermosillo
2005 Fellowship Recipients
Elda Miriam Aldasoro Maya
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Project Title: The Ñuu savi ethnozoological knowledge in a transnaional community.
Host Institution: University of Texas-Austin
Laura J. Briggs University of Arizona
Project Title: Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption
Host Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ted Henken Baruch College, City University of New York
Project Title: Who Are the "Native Americans" Here? Mexican-Indian Ethnic Identity and New Transnational Immigrant Communities in the Southeastern United States
Host Institution: Colegio de Michoacan
Casimiro Leco Tomas
El Colegio de Michoacan
Project Title: Who Are the "Native Americans" Here? Mexican-Indian Ethnic Identity and New Transnational Immigrant Communities in the Southeastern United States
Host Institution: Museum of the Cherokee Indian
Cristóbal Mendoza Pérez
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
Project Title: Sentido de lugar y procesos migratorios: Trabajadores inmigrantes mexicanos en Santa Fe (Nuevo México)
Host Institution: University of New Mexico-Alburquerque
Efrén Sandoval Hernández
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Project Title: La diversidad de vínculos transnacionales entre Monterrey, Nuevo León, y San Antonio, Texas. Negocios, consumo, turismo y recreación
Host Institution: University of Texas-San Antonio
James Thing
University of Southern California
Project Title: “Social Class and Globalization: Gay Identities among Mexican and Mexican Immigrant Comunities”
Host Institution: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
Patrick W Timmons
Augusta State University
Project Title: The Mexican Press and Capital Punishment:News Reports about the Mexican Nationals Condemned to Die in the United States, 1992 – 2005
Host Institution: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2006 Fellowship Recipients
Matthew A. Lieber
Brown University
Project Title: Political Remittances along the Puebla-New York Migratory Axis
Host Institution: Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla
Kimberly A. Nolan Garcia
University of New Mexico
Project Title: Transnational Advocacy and Labor Rights Enforcement under the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement
Host Institution: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Ethan Philip Sharp University of Texas- Pan American, Edinburg, TX
Project Title: Prison Ministries in Mexico and the Transnationalization of Faith-Based Initiatives
Host Institution: CIESAS- Programa Noreste
Jeffrey Smith Kansas State University
Project Title: The impact of remittances on quality of life and gender roles in rural villages in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico
Host Institution: Instituto de Geografia; UNAM - Mexico City
2007 Fellowship Recipients
Mireya Loza
Brown University
Project Title: “Envisioning the Past: Public Collection and the History of the Bracero Program”
Host Institution: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
Héctor Alberto Reyes Zaga.
University of Minnesota
Project Title: “Migración, literatura y derechos humanos: Un encuentro multidisciplinario en la narrativa contemporánea Mexicana”
Host Institution: Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Suzanne L. Simon.
School for International Training
Project Title: “Plan Puebla Panama: Participatory Challenges in Mexico's Economic Transnationalization and Development”
Host Institution: Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
Julie M. Weise
Yale University
Project Title: “Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the U.S. South, 1910-2010”
Host Institution: Acervo Histórico, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
2008 Fellowship Recipients
William Johnson
Harvard University Project Title: “Trans-Gender Relations in Displaced Indigenous Communities from Jalisco”
Host Institution: Universidad Iberoamericana
Lois Marcus
Loyola University Chicago
Project Title: “Mexican Homosexuality: the Transnational construction of Gay Identities”
Host Institution: UNAM
Nancy Robinson
Florida State University
Project Title: “The Political Economy of Mexico-US Migration: Remesas”
Host Institution: Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Jennifer Lewis
Bowling Green State University
Project Title: “Transnational Health: Impact of Epidemics in the Border Region”
Host Institution: UNAM
2009 Fellowship Recipients
Saul Buñuelos
University of California, San Diego
Project Title: “A genealogy of adult empire: Mexican migrants in the US”
Host Institution: Acervo Historico Diplomatico SRE
Jennifer Chavez
University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: “Health and Migration: A Binational Investigation of Mexicans in the United States and Mexico”
Host Institution: Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Marco Ruiz
University of Maryland
Project Title: Oaxacalifornia the Transnational festivities
Host Institution: Universidad Iberoamericana INALI
Luisa Serna Harvard University
Project Title: “Al Cine: American Films, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Audiences, 1917-1950”
Host Institution: UNAM
2010 Fellowship Recipients
Ken Schweitzer Washington College
Project Title: “Urban Ethnomusicology: A History of Black Music in Mexico”
Host Institution: UNAM
Frank Hernandez
UTSA
Project Title: “Non-Profit Development in Mexico”
Host Institution: ITESM Chihuahua
Delia C. Luna
UT-Arlington
Project Title: “The Mexican Southern Border Controlled by the U.S. Maras.”
Host Institution: Universidad Iberoamericana
Jorge Valdez UNAM
Project Title: “The Violence in the Border a Sheared Responsibility.”
Host Institution: UNAM-Acervo Histórico Diplomático, SRE
Silvana Nunez
University of New Mexico
Project Title: “SB1070 and the impact of Mexican Tourism to Arizona”
Host Institution: Universidad Iberoamericana
2011 Fellowship Recipients
Joseph Wakile
UC-San Diego
Project Title: Transnational Language and Identity
Host Institution: BUAP
Thomas M. Boyer
Miami Dade College
Project Title: “Dual Citizenship and the Election Processes”
Host Institution: Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Cristina Davy
Texas State University
Project Title: “U.S-Mexico Relations During Financial Crisis”
Host Institution: UAM Iztapalapa, Acervo Historico SRE
Charles Arredondo
Columbia University
Project Title: “History of Transnational Diplomacy”
Host Institution: Acervo Historico Diplomatico
Vivian Lopez
California State University, Fresno
Project Title: “Migration and the Literary Arts”
Host Institution: UNAM
2012 Fellowship Recipients
Linda Grant
Carnegie Mellon University
Project Title: ¨Returning migrant youth to Mexico¨
Host Institution: UNAM
Juan Lee
University of Hartford
Project Title: ¨Kino Border Initiative¨
Host Institution: COLEF
Michel Palin
Georgetown University
Project Title: ¨Transnational Partisan Politics in Latin America¨
Host Institution: UNAM
Marcela Urruitia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project Title: ¨Transnational Networking: Technology, migration, and nation destabilization”
Host Institution: Colegio de Postgraduaduos
2013 Fellowship Recipients
Ricardo Mendoza
University of Texas at Austin
Project Title: ¨Cultivating the North American Consensus: Organized Business, Transnational Cultural Politics, and the Rise of Market Values in Mexico¨
Host Institution: UNAM
Robert P. Clark
Columbus State University
Project Title: ¨Campaigns for Peace and Justice in Northern Mexico: Building Transnational Social Movements amid the Drug Wars¨
Host Institution: COLEF
Andrea Campillo
Howard University
Project Title: “U.S. - Mexican Transnational Industrialization”
Host Institution: UNAM
Teresa Fernandez
Florida State University
Project Title: “The Transnational Politics of the Mexican Diaspora: A New Form of identity”
Host Institution: UNAM
