Whitten Research Fund 2025-26 Winners

Whitten Research Fund

Winners of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2025-2026

Happy New Year Salserxs!  

I am so pleased to begin the year sharing with you (below) the winners of the 2025-26 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!!

• 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.

Laura Graham, SALSA President