The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund
The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund supports pre-project travel grants for master and doctoral students in the early formulation of their field research. This Grant-in-Aid is to initiate contact and collaborative working relationships with partner institutions and scholars, as well as with local communities. It can both facilitate contacts with local communities for the purpose of acquiring any necessary permissions for the future research and to initiate fieldwork.
Preference is given to research projects in lowland South America that reflect the work and themes of Norman (Norm) and Dorothea (Sibby) Whitten, including, but not restricted to, topics such as Indigenous cosmologies, Indigenous knowledge-production, aesthetics and arts, health, gender, interculturality, cultural transformations, and histories of the present.
Calls for applications
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2025-2026 (deadline: November 30, 2025)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2024-2025 (deadline: November 30, 2024)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 (deadline: November 30, 2023 – extended until December 6, 2023)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 (deadline: November 30, 2022)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2021-2022 (deadline: December 10, 2021)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020-2021 (deadline: November 15, 2020)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019-2020 (deadline: November 15, 2019)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2018-2019 (deadline: November 15, 2018)
- The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2016-2017
Awardees 2025-2026
- Laura Botero (UTexas, Austin): Engendering Extraction: Bodies, Territories, and Indigenous Dispossession in the Making of a Mining Frontier in the Venezuelan-Colombian Amazon.
- Ilona Ciganiková (Masaryk University): Continuity and innovation of Indigenous music in Lowland South America.
- Anna Marie Larsen (Masaryk University): Leadership, Gender, and Well-being Among Indigenous People in Brazil.
- Jhonatan Erik Rodriguez Macuyama (FLACSO, Ecuador): Migración y Etnicidad Kukama-Kukamiria en el eje Carretero Iquitos-Nauta.
- Narciso Abras Turco (FLACSO, Ecuador): Impacto del canon gasífero de Camisea: Poder, violencia estructural y resistencia en la Comunidad Nativa Carpintero Kirigueti, Cusco, Perú.
Past Awardees
2024-2025
- Ana Lucía Araujo Raurau (Clark University).
- Nehemias Pino (University of Copenhagen).
- Matheus Azevedo (Radboud University).
- Daniel Zohar (London School of Economics).
- Cintia Cruz Pereira (University of Helsinki).
- Elizabeth Swanson Andi (Arizona State University).
- José Gabriel Davila (Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Amazonia Campus).
- Marie-Eve Courtemanche (Université Laval).
- Roberta Queiroz Hesse (Universidade de São Paulo).
2023-2024
- Alexandre Aniceto de Souza (Universidade Federal do Amazonas).
- Aline Oliveira (Universidade de Coimbra).
- Austin Howard (Florida State University).
- Elaine Cristina Guedes Wanderley (Universidade Federal do Amazonas).
- Elena Maria Stübinger-Janas (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia).
- Felix Uhl (Philipp University Marburg).
- Josephine Mullen (St Andrews University).
- Lana Gabriela Guimarães Melo (Universidade Federal do Pará).
- Luis Garcia Falcon (Florida International University).
- Marco Ramírez Colombier (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú).
2022-2023
- Meredith Cristina Castro Rios (FLACSO Ecuador).
- Joan Gutiérrez Rodríguez (UNAL-Amazonia, Colombia).
- Alcineis Acate Peres (PPGAS-UFAM, Brazil).
- Alexandra Reichert (Vanderbilt U., USA).
- Carolina Rodriguez Alzza (U. of Texas, Austin, USA).
2021-2022
- Ana Felicien Pérez (UFPA, Brazil).
- Ana Judith Blanco Rojas (UNAL-Amazonia, Colombia).
- Cristian Erazo Romero (U. of St. Andrews, Scotland).
- Mariana Furtado (UFSC, Brazil).
- Rui Harayama (UFSC, Brazil).
- Sidney Castillo (U. of Helsinki, Finland).
- Victor Amante (UFRJ, Brazil).
2020-2021
- Edna Carolina Mayorga Sánchez (UFRJ, Brazil).
- Karen Lorena Romero Leal (U. of Florida, USA).
- Jesús Anzualdo Contreras (PUCP, Peru).
- Grzegorz Palka (U. of St. Andrews, Scotland).
2019-2020
- Maria Ximena Flores Rojas (UFRJ, Brazil).
- Blanca Yagüe Pascual (U. of Utah, USA).
- Ronaldo de Queiroz Lima (UFBA, Brazil).
2018-2019
- Helen Palma Pinedo (UFSC, Brazil).
- Michael Southwood (U. of St. Andrews, Scotland).
2017-2018
- Lorena França Reis e Silva (UFSC, Brazil).
2015-2016
- Gabriel Torrealba (Southern Illinois University).
Selection committee
2025-2026
- Chair: Paul Codjia.
- Comiittee members: Artionka Capiberibe, Giovanna Bacchiddu, and Raphaël Colliaux
2024-2025
- Chair: Paul Codjia.
- Comiittee members: Artionka Capiberibe, Giovanna Bacchiddu, and Raphaël Colliaux
2023-2024
- Chair: Chris Jarrett.
- Comiittee members: Giovanna Bacchiddu, Artionka Capiberibe, Paul Codjia.
2022-2023
- Chair: Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.
- Comiittee members: Giovanna Bacchiddu, Artionka Capiberibe, Chris Jarrett, James Whitaker.
2020-2021
- Chair: Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.
- Comiittee members: Giovanna Bacchiddu, Chris Jarrett, and James Whitaker.
2019-2020
- Chair: Richard Reed.
- Comiittee members: Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, James Whitaker and Giovanna Bacchiddu,
2017-2019
- Chair: Richard Reed
- Comiittee members: Renzo Duin, and Esther Jean Langdon