Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley

2004 Bridges Summer Research Reports

The following are reports filed by 2004 CLAS Summer Research Grant Recipients.

	Alexandra Aquino-Fike Boalt Hall School of Law "Women’s Right to Land and Water in El Salvador and Nicaragua"
Rebecca Bodenheimer Music "Reimagining Rumba as a Folkloric Practice"
	Christopher Clark Integrative Biology "Effects of elongated tails on maneuverability in hummingbirds"
Siri Colom Sociology "Tourist Scenarios in a Changing Cuba"
	Kirstie A. Dorr Ethnic Studies "Reading Rhythm, Producing Place: Geographies of Sound in Andean and Afro-Peruvian Music"
Samantha Ehrlich School of Public Health "Investigating the Sexual & Reproductive Health of Adolescents in Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, the North Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua"
	Michelle Kirian School of Public Health "Evidence-based, community-derived interventions for prevention and control of dengue in Nicaragua"
Tara Lundstrom Boalt Hall School of Law "Challenging the Dominican Republic’s Discriminatory Registration Policies before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights"
	Andra Olivia Maciuceanu Political Science "What does it mean to be Argentine? Xenophobic Tensions and Institutional Responses to the New Immigration in Buenos Aires"
Sebastian Martinez Economics "Cash Transfers and Investments: The Bolivian BONOSOL"
	Anita Milman Energy and Resources Group "The Efficacy of Community Managed Water Systems in Rural Mexico"
Shanti Morell-Hart Anthropology "Stepping Stones toward Paleoethnobotanical Analysis in the Northern Yucatan"
	Drew Propson Spanish and Portuguese "Brazilian Modernism: Landscapes, Cityscapes, and National Identity"
Nelson R. Ramírez Spanish & Portuguese "Graffiti: Writing of Transgression and the New Peruvian Novel"
	Katherine Schlaefer School of Public Health "Health Risk Behaviours of Street Kids in Ecuador"
Caitlin Sislin Boalt Hall School of Law "International Human Rights and Environmental Jurisprudence in Córdoba, Argentina"
	Benjamin Zadik Latin American Studies "The Influence of the Pig in Spain and America during the Colonial Period"
Additional Bridges Summer Research Reports, 2004
Marlene M. Clarke School of Public Health "Sexual Exploitation among Girls and Adolescents in Bluefields, Nicaragua"
Frederico Finan Economics "Evaluating the Impact of Decentralized Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: A Study of Brazil’s Bolsa Escola Program"
Katherine French-Fuller Latin American Studies "Fuzzy Logic: The Washing Machine, Women and Class in 1960s-1980s Chile"
Sarah Lynn Lopez Architecture "The Remittance House: Transnational Architecture in 21st century Mexico"
Miranda Lucia Ritterman School of Public Health "Social Networks and Public Health in Cuba"
Enrique R. Silva City and Regional Planning "The Model Highway: Chilean Neoliberalism, Capital City Planning and the Making of Santiago’s Costanera Norte"
Meg Stalcup Anthropology "Urban Relations: the example of an open market in Rio de Janeiro"
Simeon Tegel Latin American Studies "An Investigation into the Social Impacts of the Camisea Gas Project on the Matsigenka People of the Peruvian Amazon"