Fellowships | Grants | Awards

EXTERNAL

2020  | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship | $60,000

2020  | Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner Gren Foundation | $40,000

2016 | Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Award on Afro-Latin American Studies. The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (ALARI), Harvard University | Workshop participation

2015 – 2016 | Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Department of Black Studies, University of California Santa Barbara | $27,500

2015 – 2016 | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (Alternate)

2015 | Honorable Mention & Student Choice Award. United States Environmental Protection Agency P3 National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet. Project “Sustainable Sanitation Solutions for Low-Income Urban Households – Phase 2.”. In collaboration with: Jennifer Davis, Gao Nou Moua, Kory C. Russel and Sebastien H. Tilmans – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

2014 | P3 Grant Recipient. United States Environmental Protection Agency. National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet. Project “Sustainable Sanitation Solutions for Low-Income Urban Households – Phase 1.” In collaboration with: Jennifer Davis, Gao Nou Moua, Kory C. Russel and Sebastien H. Tilmans – Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University | $14,996

2012 – 2013 | SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship. Social Sciences Research Council | $18,000

2010 | Travel Grant. XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association

2008 – 2010 | Fulbright Foreign Student Fellowship. Graduate Program at Stanford University | $36,000

2008 – 2009 | Colfuturo Scholarship. Graduate Program at Stanford University | $25,000

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

2023 | Faculty Research Mentor Award. Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE), Division of Undergraduate Education and Student Success | $2,500

2023 – 2024 | Faculty Research Fellowship. Oregon Humanities Center | $10,000 + OPE

2022 – 2023 | Reclaiming our Time IDEAL Grants. Division of Equity and Inclusion (DEI) | $20,000

2022 |Publication Subvention Grant. Oregon Humanities Center | $1,500

2022 | Caregiver Advocate Award. United Academics

2022 | Nominee MLK – Social Justice “Drum Major” Award. Division of Equity and Inclusion

2021 – 2023 | Research Interest Group. Center for the Study of Women in Society| $1,000

2021 | Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies 2021 Faculty Research Seed Grant| $5,000

2021 | Wayne Morse Center Resident Scholar 2021-2022 | $10,000

2019 | Presidential Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (Alternate)  

2019 | 2019-20 Faculty Research Fellowship: VPRI Completion Award. Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon | $10,000 + OPE

2018 | Faculty Research Grant. Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon | $6,000

2017 | Faculty Research Award. Office for Research and Innovation, University of Oregon | $5,000

2017 | CAIT Fellowship – Faculty Learning Community on the Teaching of Identity, Difference and Power. Teaching Engagement Program, University of Oregon | $2,000

2017 | International Research Travel Grant. College of Arts and Sciences| $1,000

2016 | New Junior Faculty Research Award. Office for Research and Innovation | $2,000

STANFORD UNIVERSITY (selected)

2016 | Outstanding Graduate Research and Publication Award. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University | $500

2015 | Small Grants Program. Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University | $1,043

2014 – 2015 | Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. Humanities Center, Stanford University | $26,000 + 1 academic year tuition

2014, 2012 | Graduate Conference Travel Grant. Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University | $433/year

2013 – 2014 | Graduate of Public Service Fellowship. Haas Center for Public Service and Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University | $3,000

2013, 2012 | Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity Grant. Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford University | $1,026 and $3,960

2012 | Dissertation Research Travel Grant. O’Bie Shultz Fellowship in International Studies, Stanford University | $5,000

2012 | Graduate Research Opportunities Fund. School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University | $4,500

2012 | Small Grants Program for Student Research. Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University | $1,500

2011 – 2013 | Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship. School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University | tuition and stipend 1 academic year

UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES (selected)

2003 | Honors Degree in Anthropology. Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia 

2003 | First place winner. Graduate Competition for M.A. Thesis. Sociocultural and International Research Center CESO and Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia