CRS Graduate Student Fellowships 2026-2027
Profiles of CRS Fellows
Center for Regional Studies Fellowship Award Recipients
This year, CRS provided $127,000 in scholarships to twenty-two graduate students enrolled in various departments and programs. The Ph.D. students received $6,000 and the M.A. students received $5,000. Their research titles are listed below.
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| Stephania Alarcón Alcalá | Economics | Understanding Water Scarcity: Measurement and Valuation in the Middle Rio Grande Basin | ||
| Samuel Asare | Economics | Trends in Consumptive Water Use in the Middle Rio Grande Basin: Evidence from OpenET and Policy Implications | ||
| Cameron Chavez Reed | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Land education in geoscience education to engage students in place-based New Mexico geology curriculum | ||
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| Brisa del Bosque | Spanish and Portuguese | Linguistic Ideologies of University-Educated Immigrant Parents and Their Perceptions of Heritage Spanish in the U.S. Southwest | ||
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| Erin Elder | Geography | A Most Uninteresting River”: seeing the Pecos River anew | ||
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| Howard Griego | Chicana/o Studies | Returning to Querencia: An Autoethnography of Genízaro Homeland | ||
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| Gus Guikema | Geography & Environmental Studies | Infrastructures of Survival: Water, Elk, and Conservation in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico | ||
| Jasmine Hernandez | Evolutionary Anthropology | Restoring Identities: Improving Methods for Identification and Repatriation of Migrants Along the US-Mexico Border | ||
| Lacey Hites | Sociology & Criminology | Discretion By Design: Navigating Advising, Bureaucracy, and Categorical Inequality in a Southwestern Minority Serving Institution | ||
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| Jacqueline Kelley-Cogdell | Geography | Diversifying Oral Histories of Agriculture along the Middle Rio Grande | ||
| Grace Leishman | History | A Choral of Black Women’s Voices’: Margaret Prescod and the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders in South Central Los Angeles, 1980s–2010s | ||
| Kaitlin Lewis | Anthropology | Faith on the Border: Polarization, Politics, and Mainline Protestant Revitalization in the Southern New Mexico Borderlands | ||
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Constanza Mier y Teran Ruesga |
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| Health Effects of Toxic Dust from the Shrinking Great Salt Lake |
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Bianca Ruiz-Negrón |
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| Through the Expert’s Lens: Mental Health Professionals and the Psychological Evaluation of Latino/a/x Asylum Seekers |
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| Saif Salih | Community and Regional Planning | The Genizaro Vernacular: The Cultural Landscape of High Mountain | ||
| Sooriyage Salika Dulanjali | Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Peptide-incorporated hydrogels for selective sequestration of radionuclides and heavy metals in aqueous environments to address water quality challenges in New Mexico | ||
| Jane Sawerengera | Economics | Assessing agricultural water users’ willingness to participate in an Environmental Water Leasing Program in the Middle Rio Grande Basin | ||
| Aniket Sharma | Civil, Construction, Environmental Engineering | Assessing Transportation Safety Inequities for Pedestrians and Bicyclists in New Mexico | ||
| Patricia Sotelo Chavira | Biology | Phylogeographic History and Diversification of Sorex monticola Across Sky Island Habitats in the American Southwest | ||
| Angela Stevenson | History | Echoes of the South: The United Daughters of the Confederacy in the U.S. West, 1900-1980 | ||
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| Libby Vigil | Sociology & Criminology | A Comparative Study Between Immigrant Justice and Anti-Carceral Advocacy | ||
| Ziqing Xie | Economics | A Dynamic Bioeconomic Model for Aquaponic Farms | ||
