The Student Small Grants competition is held two times a year to support UC graduate students and UC postdoctoral researcher activities in all disciplines as related to academic exchange, research training, and scholarly development in areas consistent to UC MEXUS goals. Listed here are the grant recipients, departments, home campuses, UC faculty sponsors and project titles.
Lucia Alcalá, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Barbara Rogoff)
Cultural Variation in Children's Participation in Community-wide Events
Lynnette Arnold, Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Mary Bucholtz)
"Como que era Mexicano": Mexico as a resource for constructing strategic transnational identities
Brandon Brown, Medicine, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Kimberly Brouwer)
Cervical cancer prevention among female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico
Amanda M. Burkhardt, Physiology and Biophysics, UC Irvine
(Faculty Sponsor: Albert Zlotnik)
Potential Role of CXCL17 in human lung diseases
Megan Lorraine Debin, Art History, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Charlene Villaseñor-Black)
Body Traces: Violence and Absence in Contemporary Mexican Performance Art
Elizabeth Derse Crook, Earth and Marine Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Adina Paytan)
In-situ observations of ocean acidification: The "ojos" of Puerto Morelos, Mexico
Joanna Doran, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Irene Bloemraad)
Pathways to Success: The Mexican and Latino Immigrant Experience in an Asset Buildings Program for the Working Poor
Guadalupe Espinoza, Psychology, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Jaana Juvonen)
Cyberbullying Experiences Among Urban, Mexican-American Adolescents: A Daily Diary Approach
Rinat Gabitov, Earth and Space Sciences, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: T. Mark Harrison)
Oxygen isotopes fractionation during coral growth: Effects of kinetic and growth environment on the temperature proxy
Raquel Garcia, Spanish, UC Davis
(Faculty Sponsor: Linda Egan)
Conscious Political Incorrectness: A Legitimate Discourse in Mexican Stand-up Comedy
Tania L. García-Rosas, History, UC Davis
(Faculty Sponsor: Andrés Reséndez)
Vidas Agridulces: Gender and Family in the Veracruz Sugar Industry, 1970-Present
Sebastián Garrido de Sierra, Political Science, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Barbara Geddes)
Explaining the Logic Behind the 1996 Electoral Reform in Mexico
Jonathan D. Gomez, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: George Lipsitz)
El Puente Poetry Workshop
Elizabeth Gonzalez, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Catherine Cooper)
Tridimensional Acculturation, Intra-group Discrimination, and Ethnic Identity Among Indigenous Oaxaqueño/a Adolescents
Andrew Gottscho, Biology, UC Riverside
(Faculty Sponsor: John Gatesy)
Speciation of Phrynosomatid lizards in the Baja California Peninsula: Integrating geology and genomics
Giovanni Hanna, Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Therese A. Markow)
Reproductive biology and population genetics of an invasive Drosophilid: Zaprionus indianus
Alexandro D. Hernández, Ethnomusicology, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Rubén Hernández León)
The Chicano-Jarocho Fandango as Resistance and Cultural Affirmation
Elizabeth Horevitz, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Kurt Organista)
Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care: Toward Reducing Mexican Im/migrant mental health disparities?
Celina E. Kapoor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Matthew Wolf-Meyer)
Reshaping Knowledge and/in Everyday Life: Type-2 Diabetes in McAllen, Texas
Matthew S. Leslie, Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Ronald S. Burton)
Investigating the hydrodynamics of forward-swept dorsal fins and other extreme sexually selected body characters in eastern spinner dolphins
Angélica López, Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Barbara Rogoff)
Spontaneous Help as a Cultural Practice
Danica F. Maxwell, Entomology, UC Davis
(Faculty Sponsor: Edwin Lewis)
Manipulating top-down and bottom-up mortality of a leafminer pest to facilitate mating disruption as a management tool
Sergio F. Nigenda Morales, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Robert K. Wayne)
Understanding the demographic history and adaptation to different environments of the North American marsupial, the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
Quetzalcoatl Orozco Ramírez, Geography Graduate Group, UC Davis
(Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Brush)
Training on field methods and site selection for research project in Oaxaca, Mexico
Kathryn Peiman, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Gregory Grether)
The Effects of Heterospecific Aggression on Winter Habitat Use in a Migrant and Resident Passerine
Alicia M. Romero, History, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Alice Yang)
Portrait of a Barrio: Memory and Visual Culture in Barelas, NM 1900-1969
Monica Romero López, Center for Complex Biological Systems, UC Irvine
(Faculty Sponsor: John S. Lowengrub)
Collaborate with UNAM
Diana C. Rose, History of Visual Art and Culture, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Carolyn Dean)
Pre-Columbian Visual Culture in Contemporary Maya Practices
Nadia T. Rubio-Cisneros, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Jeremy Jackson)
Historical benefits of ecosystem services in Marismas Nacionales wetland
Kristie Soares, Comparative Literature Program, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Carl Gutierrez-Jones)
The Ethics of Relation: A Healing Performance Community Activism Project
Alma Celina Vega, Demography, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Ronald Lee)
The Impact of Social Security on Return Migration Among Mexican Elderly in the U.S.
Germán Vergara, History, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Margaret Chowning)
Heterogenous Landscapes: Modernity, Peasants, and Environmental Change in Nineteenth-Century Valley of Mexico
Beniamino Volta, Anthropology, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Geoffrey E. Braswell)
Ancient Maya cities as complex adaptive systems: An archaeological investigation of urbanism at Uxul, Campeche, Mexico
Michaela Walsh, Communication, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Patrick Anderson)
"Burlando La Migra" Shifting Conceptions of the U.S./Mexico Border
Lorraine Weller, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Faculty Sponsor: Darrel Jenerette)
Mesoamerican farming practices and soil properties in Los Angeles community gardens
Benjamin T. Wilder, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
(Faculty Sponsor: Louis Santiago)
Historical Plant Biogeography of the Midriff Islands of the Gulf of California: 2011 Field Season
Angelica M. Yañez, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Curtiz Marez)
Aztec Dance in Greater Mexico
Martha Beatriz Alvarez Elizondo, Beckman Laser Institute, UC Irvine
(Faculty Sponsor: Elliot Botvinick)
Matrix Stiffness role on cardiomyocytes contraction
Christian Briseno, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Jules Jaffe)
Dormancy in Calanus pacificus californicus: are the copepods safe from predators while overwintering?
Ashley Clark, Human and Community Development, UC Davis
(Faculty Sponsor: Luis Guarnizo)
Contested Space: Comparing Immigrant and Refugee Resettlement Experiences
SCR 43
Timo Fahler, Art History, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: John Pohl)
Biciteka House/Social Art and Education Program
Amber Rose González, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Chela Sandoval)
Another City is Possible: Mujeres de Maíz, Spiritual Activism, and the Cultivation of Sacred Spaces in Los Angeles
SCR 43
Melissa Guzman, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Denise Segura)
Mexican Immigrants and the Making of Spiritual Citizenship: Immigration, Religion and Civic Engagement
SCR 43
Jethro Hernandez Berrones, Anthropology, UC San Francisco
(Faculty Sponsor: Elizabeth Watkins)
Homeopathy and medical education in Mexico, 1920-1930
Matthew Hufford, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
(Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra)
Genetic variation in a domestication gene in the wild ancestor of maize
Jill Jensen, History, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Mary Furner)
An Inter-American dialogue on social policy: U.S. and Mexican social security expertise, 1945-1954
Shelley LaMon, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Juan-Vicente Palerm)
Desde el Sur al Norte: The New Migration of Highland Maya from Chiapas to the United States
Monica Lomeli, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Denise Segura)
Race, Class, and Redevelopment in Downtown L.A.'s Latino and Mexican Small Businesses
SCR 43
Patrick López-Aguado, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Victor Rios)
The Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration on Urban Youth Cultures
SCR 43
Mario Marquez, Radiological Sciences, Medical Sciences B, UC Irvine
(Faculty Sponsor: Joyce H. Keyak)
A novel device for creating void during vertebroplasty for bone metastases
Gabriela Mendoza-García, Dance, UC Riverside
(Faculty Sponsor: Linda J. Tomko)
Bodily Renderings of the Jarabe Tapatio in Early 20th-Century Mexico, Millennial Mexico and the United States: Race, Nation, and Gender
SCR 43
Ana Teresa Villarreal Montemayor, Sociology, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Michael Burawoy)
Domestic Violence in Women's Migration Trajectories Between Mexico and the U.S.
SCR 43
Lydia Zacher, Anthropology, UC Irvine
(Faculty Sponsor: Michael Montoya)
A new medical model for childbirth: Understanding the role of Mexico's emergent professional midwifery
Sonia Maria Arteaga, Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Sri Kurniawan)
Persuasive technology for teenagers' physical activity: A comparative Mexico/U.S.A. study
Maria Natalia Bieletto Bueno, Musicology, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Tamara Levitz)
Curso de Musicología para la Protección y Difusión del Patrimonio Artístico Iberoamericano Robert Stevenson
Seth M. Bybee, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine
(Faculty Sponsor: Adriana Briscoe)
Visual systems evolution of the most primitive true butterflies (Papilionidae: Papilionoidea): Insights towards reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye
Monica Castillejos-Aragon, School of Law, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Malcolm M. Feeley)
How the Supreme Court justices and litigants set the rights agenda in Mexico
Elizabeth Derse, Earth and Marine Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
(Faculty Sponsor: Adina Paytan)
Long-term response of coral reef ecosystems to ocean acidification: A study from naturally occurring, low pH springs in Mexico
Michael Harris, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Viola Miglio)
Speech rhythms of Hispanic bilinguals study
Brian Hawkins, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Wayne A. Cornelius)
CIRA and the H-2C Program: A proposal for reviewing the potential of future immigration policy reform
SCR-43
Gisela Lanzas, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Juan-Vicente Palerm)
Development in the tropics: The case of Plan Chontalpa and its impacts on a rural community in Tabasco, Mexico
Nicolletta Maestri, Anthropology, UC Riverside
(Faculty Sponsor: Wendy Ashmore)
Investigating ancient political landscapes in the Usumacinta Region: Research in the Hinterland of Chinikiha, Chiapas, Mexico
Maritza Maksimow, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Juan Vicente Palerm)
Exploring the Borderlands: Seeking a binational perspective of the Alta-Baja California Borderlands
SCR-43
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Geography, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Richard Walker)
Mexican women's contributions to California agriculture: Knowledge and social networks across borders
Veronica Montes, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: William I. Robinson)
Transnational Mexican families and the construction of their household economic strategies: A multi-sited ethnographic approach
Julie M. Portillo, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Viola Miglio)
Sociolinguistic study of Chicano/Mexican attitudes towards different dialectal varieties of Mexican Spanish
José L. Reynoso, World Arts and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Susan L. Foster)
Dancing modernisms, choreographing politics: Constructions of bodies and subjects crisscrossing the U.S.-Mexican Border
Jose L. Reynoso, World Arts and Cultures, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Susan L. Foster)
Embodiments of social class and modernity: Mexican dancing bodies during the 1930s
Miranda L. Ritterman, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Lia Fernald)
Mexican adolescent perceived social position
Jimena Nélida Rodríguez, Spanish and Portuguese, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Claudia Parodi)
The discourses of maritime travel and the explorations of the California Coast
Paul Rogé, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
(Faculty Sponsor: Miguel Altieri)
Importance of social networks in resilience theory: Case studies from rural Mexico
Oliver Rosales, History, UC Santa Barbara
(Faculty Sponsor: Mario T. Garcia)
Race, segregation and civil rights in California's Central Valley: The origins of a rural social and political crisis, 1933-1984
SCR-43
Stevie Ruiz, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
(Faculty Sponsor: Natalia Molina)
Race, kinship and the making of sexual difference: A case study of court trials and press coverage in Imperial Valley
Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr., Philosophy, UC Riverside
(Faculty Sponsor: Erich Reck)
A new direction for North American philosophy: Toward Mexico
Pamela G. Thompson, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
(Faculty Sponsor: Victoria Sork)
Impact of landscape change on bat pollination in a tropical dry forest in Jalisco, Mexico