The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) invites proposals for interdisciplinary, collaborative research and programming to be hosted during the 2025–27 academic year. Grants under this rubric conform broadly to academic years: climate and conservation; arts and cultures; and politics and peripheries.

• Climate and Conservation: Addressing ecological knowledge, environmental change, conservation practices, and the intersections of science, policy, and local experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Arts and Cultures: Exploring how creative expression, cultural practices, and forms of representation shape understandings of Latin America/Caribbean and its peoples.
• Politics and Peripheries: Considering Latin America and the Caribbean in political terms and also in relation to borderlands and margins, with a focus on geographic, social, economic, and conceptual frameworks for how these “edges” connect to broader regional, international, and global dynamics.

Initiatives

Amazon Initiative – Supports a range of programming and research centered on the multinational, multilingual, and trans-temporal Amazon River region.

Caribbean Initiative – Focuses on the Caribbean, with particular attention to projects that extend beyond a single island or territory, a single cultural or linguistic context, or a single historical period.

La(s) Frontera(s) Initiative – Supports projects exploring borderlands, migration, and transnationalism in Latin America and the Caribbean. This initiative emphasizes the lived experiences of fronteras—geographic, cultural, linguistic, or conceptual—and fosters dialogue across disciplines about how borders shape identities, economies, and political life.

For more information on how to engage with our current research, visit our Opportunities tab