Whitten Research Fund 2024-25 Winners

Whitten Research Fund

Winners of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025

Happy New Year Salserxs!  

I am so pleased begin the year sharing with you (below) the winners of the 2024-25 Norm & Sibby Whitten Research Award. Many thanks to the Whitten Research Award Selection Committee Paul Codija (Chair),  Artionka Capiberibe, Giovanna Bacchiddu, and Raphaël Colliaux for their hard work and dedication in evaluating the applications!  Thanks to all applicants for their interest in the award. And special thanks to Norm Whitten for his incredible generosity to SALSA and young researchers.  Huge warm SALSA congratulations, parabéns, ¡felicidades! to the honored awardees!!

• Ana Lucía Araujo Raurau (Clark University): Are Indigenous Territories enough for Indigenous peoples? Exploring land scarcity among Indigenous
• Nehemias Pino (University of Copenhagen):  The political dispute over the conceptualisation of Kichwa Forest Gardens in Ecuadorian Amazonia.
• Matheus Azevedo (Radboud University): Understanding the Dynamics of Language Contact through Psychoactive Plant Lexicon Ecuadorian Amazon
• Daniel Zohar (London School of Economics): Growing agency? Plant subjectivity and its transformations in western Amazonia
• Cintia Cruz Pereira (University of Helsinki): Bridging Indigenous Knowledge and Global Food Policies: The Role of Indigenous Food Systems in Sustainability and Resilience
• Elizabeth Swanson Andi (Arizona State University): Creating the Conditions of Possibility for Kichwa Traditional Ecological Knowledge at the Intersection of Sustainability Science in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
• José Gabriel Davila (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): Documentación del patrimonio de las trampas de pesca murui
• Marie-Eve Courtemanche (Université Laval): Cosmopolitics of the body-territory: Huni Kuin women and contemporary Indigenous art in the Brazilian Amazon
• Roberta Queiroz Hesse (Universidade de São Paulo):  Políticas indígenas do trabalho: pensando sobre corpos e empregos com famílias guarani, kaingang e xetá do baixo Tibagi

Laura Graham, SALSA President