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November 10, 20082008 Tinker Symposium
4th Annual Tinker Symposium on Graduate Field Research in Latin America
With grant money from the Tinker Foundation, The University of Arizona funded over 20 graduate students to conduct their original research in Latin America this past summer. The University and Tucson community were invited to come and listen to their experiences and the outcomes of their research on October 30th at the Marriott University Park Hotel.
The keynote speaker was Dr. Susan Eckstein, a professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is a specialist on urbanization, immigration, poverty, rights and injustices, and social movements in the context of Third World Countries. She has also written on agrarian reform, comparative development, and effects of revolution. Her main focus is on Latin America and she is currently working on immigration and its impact across borders, focusing on the Cuban experience in particular. Her talk was entitled “On Immigrant Power: Cuban-Americans and the Presidential Electoral Policy Cycle.”
Graduate students from across campus will discuss their incredible field experiences from Mexico to Argentina. Whether you are interested in alternative energy and the environment, immigration and identity, or public health and education we had something exciting for you.
The Tinker Symposium is organized by the UA Center for Latin American Studies. The Tinker Foundation was created in 1959 with the focus on providing funding for research possibilities in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Additional funding is provided by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Humanities, College of Public Health, the Vice President for Research, International Affairs and the Center for Latin American Studies.
With grant money from the Tinker Foundation, The University of Arizona funded over 20 graduate students to conduct their original research in Latin America this past summer. The University and Tucson community were invited to come and listen to their experiences and the outcomes of their research on October 30th at the Marriott University Park Hotel.
The keynote speaker was Dr. Susan Eckstein, a professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is a specialist on urbanization, immigration, poverty, rights and injustices, and social movements in the context of Third World Countries. She has also written on agrarian reform, comparative development, and effects of revolution. Her main focus is on Latin America and she is currently working on immigration and its impact across borders, focusing on the Cuban experience in particular. Her talk was entitled “On Immigrant Power: Cuban-Americans and the Presidential Electoral Policy Cycle.”
Graduate students from across campus will discuss their incredible field experiences from Mexico to Argentina. Whether you are interested in alternative energy and the environment, immigration and identity, or public health and education we had something exciting for you.
The Tinker Symposium is organized by the UA Center for Latin American Studies. The Tinker Foundation was created in 1959 with the focus on providing funding for research possibilities in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Additional funding is provided by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Humanities, College of Public Health, the Vice President for Research, International Affairs and the Center for Latin American Studies.