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*Note: Students are eligible to receive funding only if they will be enrolling as Stanford students the following academic year.

Graduate Research in Venezuela

The Center for Latin American Studies invites proposals for Stanford graduate student-led research in Venezuela.  Through a generous gift from the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation, CLAS will distribute grants of up to $6,000.  Please submit a CV, brief proposal narrative, complete itemized budget, graduate transcripts, and a letter of recommendation from the thesis advisor to Megan Gorman at megorman@stanford.edu.

Applications are considered on a rolling basis throughout the year until funds expire.

Working Groups

Working Groups consist of a group of students, in collaboration with a faculty advisor, who wish to organize lectures, speaker series, symposia, exchange of working papers, collaborative research efforts, etc. Faculty, visiting scholars, graduate and professional school students, and undergraduates come together in multidisciplinary scholarly exchange of research-in-progress, culture, and perspectives on current events on Latin American topics. There are no limitations on a potential topic or agenda for a Working Group. Awards range from $3,000 to $6,000. For the upcoming 2008-09 academic year, students are encouraged to apply by the proposal deadline: June 27, 2008. Please download the application here.

Monica Miller Walsh Undergraduate Summer Internship Grants

Awards of up to $3,000 to undertake an internship in Latin America. Application deadline is the first Friday in Spring Quarter for the upcoming summer or following academic year.

This summer, the Center is pleased to have awarded funding for eight undergraduates to intern in Latin America.

Ayacucho Fund for Graduate Study

Full fellowships for one year of study at Stanford. Preference for students from Venezuela in the LAS Master's Program, but any student from Latin America will be considered. Apply by first day of classes winter quarter in the preceding year.