Edna Carolina Mayorga Sánchez Winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020 Representations of mental health from an Indigenous Amazonian perspective of the Ticuna ethnic group, between Colombia and Brazil The objective of the research is to identify the mental health representations of the Indigenous Ticuna...
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Maria Ximena Flores Rojas Winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Living with HIV among the Awajún, Peruvian Amazonia Desde el 2005 los awajún del distrito de El Cenepa vienen luchado contra el VIH/SIDA. El objetivo de mi investigación es ampliar la comprensión de las...
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Ronaldo de Queiroz Lima Winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Anacé people: kinship, creation of places and Indigenous leadership This project looks at the elaboration of Anacé ethnicity based on kinship and the creation of places as a production of Indigenous conditions linking the...
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Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020-2021 Application deadline: November 15, 2020 (see guidelines in PDF format) The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2020-2021 supports pre-project travel grants for full- time graduate students in the early stages of formulating their dissertation research proposal. This Grant-in-Aid is to...
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Blanca Yagüe Winner or the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2019 Indigenous foods in Vaupés, Colombia The purpose of this proposal is to get approval from local indigenous leaders and communities to develop my investigation in the Vaupés region, strengthen collaboration, and obtain empirical data that will...
Read MoreMichael Southwood Winner of a Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund Award 2018 Michael Southwood, of the University of St. Andrews, was the winner of a 2018 Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund Award of US$1750, for his research "The Chitonahua: ‘Contact’ and Trauma in the Amazon." The...
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