DIANA SANTILLAN, then a student at George Washington University, Washington, DC, received funding in May 2007 to aid research on 'Intercultural Mediations: Using Radio to Promote Reproductive Health and Gender Equity in the Peruvian Amazon,' supervised by Dr. Catherine Jean Allen. The research project analyzes how a non-governmental organization (NGO) in the Peruvian Amazon constructs messages to promote gender equity and reproductive health, and how river community members interpret these messages and negotiate them with indigenous understandings of gender, health, and reproduction.

DR. FRANK SALOMON, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, received funding in May 2005 to aid research on 'The Patrimonial Khipus of Rapaz, Peru.' A ritual precinct in the central-Andean village of Rapaz contains two remarkable structures: an ancient communal storehouse (Pasa Qullqa) and a non-Christian temple (Kaha Wayi) for sacrifices to the mountain deities. The latter is famous for its in-situ collection of khipu (Andean knot records), an undeciphered prehispanic medium.

DR. FRANK SALOMON, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, was awarded funding in July 2001 to aid research on 'Legacies of Andean Literacy.' 'New Literacy Theory' (NLS), a movement originating in anthropology, argues against unitary models of literacy (from Aristotle through the 'Toronto School'). NLS holds that literacy 'derives its meaning from the social practices which are. ..

ROBERT N. SAMET, then a student at Stanford University, Stanford, California, received funding in October 2008 to aid research on Writing Crime: Journalism, Insecurity, and Narratives of Violence in Caracas, Venezuela,' supervised by Dr. Sylvia Yanagisako. The overarching objective of the dissertation research is to describe the social processes through which violent events are framed as journalistic narratives by focusing on the everyday practices of crime reporters in Caracas.

KRISNA RUETTE, then a student at University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, received funding in October 2006 to aid research on 'Law-Making Processes of Indigenous and Afro-Descendent Movements in Falcon, Venezuela,' supervised by Dr. Ana Maria Alonso. Dissertation fieldwork was conducted between January-December 2007 in Falcon and Yaracuy, Venezuela, in order to examine how law-making processes shape the discourses and practices of social movements competing for state resources.

DAVID M. ROJAS, then a student at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, was awarded a grant in October 2010 to aid research on 'Putting A Price On The Amazon: The Constitution of Environmental Payments in Mato Grosso.' During 2011, the grantee conducted ten months of ethnographic research in Brazil, studying a strategy that will pay Amazonian landholders for not cutting down their forests.