David Scott Palmer Grants Information Session (02/04/26)

Join us on February 4th for an information session on the David Scott Palmer Grants. This event offers prospective applicants a comprehensive overview of eligibility criteria, application procedures, and helpful tips for crafting a successful proposal. Open to both undergraduate and graduate students, the session provides valuable guidance and a chance to have your questions answered.

These small research awards help cover expenses for projects focused on Latin America, including, when permissible, travel to the region. Projects related to Latinos in the U.S. are also eligible. Additionally, funding is available for conference participation. The session will be held in a hybrid format. Please register to attend either in person or via Zoom.

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Statement on Diversity and Inclusion

The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University is proud of BU’s history of diversity and inclusion. BU’s founders opened the University’s doors to all students without regard to religion, race, or gender, and building and sustaining a vibrant community of scholars, students, and staff remains essential to its mission of contributing to and preparing students to thrive in, an increasingly interconnected world.

Success in a competitive, global milieu depends upon our ongoing commitment to welcome and engage the wisdom, creativity, and aspirations of all peoples and the Center for Latin American Studies is vital to the University’s mission of preparing global citizens. We forge concrete initiatives to integrate faculty and students across the university in the promotion of antiracism, diversity, and inclusion from a Latin American Studies perspective. Through our in-depth and interdisciplinary academic programs, as well as through a rich array of talks, lectures, round-table discussions, conferences, and other educational and cultural events, we assist the University in its efforts to create environments for learning, working, and living that are enriched by racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

At the Center for Latin American Studies, we believe in and practice respect for individual differences in life experience, sexual orientation, and religious belief, and we aspire to be free of intellectual parochialism, barriers to access, and ethnocentrism. We appreciate and deeply value the contributions and talents of every member of the Boston University community and invite you to learn more about us.