For Educators
Resources for Educators
The Stone Center’s educational outreach program is called the Latin American Resource Center (LARC). LARC promotes the study of all subject matter relating to Latin America at the K-12, community, and university levels. In order to ensure accurate, integrated content for your classroom, we provide services such as teacher training workshops, summer teacher institutes, online curricular materials, a free lending library with films and culture kits, an online Visitor Speaker Bureau featuring faculty and graduate student speakers, and personalized consulting. Please click below to access these resources.
Faculty Resources
Faculty Resources
Funding Opportunities for Faculty
Professional Travel
Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and librarians conducting research on Latin America may apply for professional travel funding to support the following activities:
- Presenting research papers at regional, national, or international conferences
- Serving as officially-designated chairs or panel respondents at a conference
- Participating in board or committee meetings of recognized professional associations
There are two application phases for Professional Travel:
- Academic Year Travel (application due November 1): funding to support professional travel from October 1 through June 30.
- Summer Travel (application due March 31): funding to support professional travel from July 1 through Sept. 30.
Click here to review Professional Travel Additional Guidelines. Download a copy of the sample application here.
Apply here for Professional Travel Funding.
Summer Funding for Fieldwork
The Stone Center provides grants to faculty for fieldwork conducted on Latin America and the Caribbean during the summer months. This grant category encompasses ONLY cost of travel and/or subsistence. Funding applications for any other expenses should be submitted as Special Project Support (see below).
Subsistence allowances follow the domestic per diem rates provided by the U.S. General Services Administration and foreign per diem rates provided by the U.S. Department of State. Download a sample of the Summer Funding for Fieldwork online application here.
Applications due March 1. Download a sample copy of the application here.
Apply here for Summer Funding for Fieldwork (faculty).
Guest Lecture or Performance
The Stone Center provides grants to support individual public guest lectures and performances with significant Latin American content. Priority is given to those events for which there is both programmatic and funding collaboration across multiple departments or units.
This program is not intended to fund large-scale events with costs greater than $1,000. Faculty seeking support for such events should apply for Special Project Support (see below).
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis starting July 1 for each fiscal year (July 1- June 30).
Click here to review Guest Lecture or Performance Additional Guidelines. Download the sample application here.
Apply here for Guest Lecture or Performance Funding.
Special Project Support
On occasion, the Center supports special projects not covered under the funding categories outlined above. Categories include:
- Materials - the acquisition of unique, out-of-the-ordinary research materials not available through the library but essential to the project (books, maps, images, software, etc.)
- Assistance - the service of in-country assistants, consultants, or external laboratories (data collecting, illustration, photography, indexing, scanning, etc.) to advance the faculty member's research
- Large-scale or high-cost events** – events with an expected cost of more than $1,000 such as conferences, workshops, symposia, semester-long lecture series, large scale ensemble musical performance, etc.
- Other - special projects not covered under the guidelines for faculty Summer Funding for Fieldwork or any other Stone Center grant programs
Applications are accepted are on a rolling basis starting July 1 for the fiscal year (July 1-June 30).
Click here to review Special Projects Additional Guidelines.
Apply here for Special Project Support. (Coming soon)
**NOTE: Requests for funding for large-scale or high-costs events are due February 1 for events in the following fiscal year.
Contact Information
Please contact the Stone Center staff with any questions.
About CCSI
About CCSI
The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute evolved out of several years of sustained effort in developing relations with Cuban counterpart organizations for the purposes of academic collaboration and exchange, curricular development, cultural exchange and international development and dialogue. In addition, the Institute fosters and coordinates Cuba-related initiatives in other units of the University, such as in the Schools of Architecture, Social Work, and Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Reflecting the success of these efforts, Tulane University in recent years has had a greater presence of faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students in Cuba than any other American university.
The Institute runs the first and largest US undergraduate study program in Cuba, the Summer in Cuba, and organizes a wide range of lectures and musical events on campus and short courses in Cuba. There is a steady stream of Cuban visitors to the Tulane campus, Cuban intellectuals lecturing in courses, etc. The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute also offers a Speakers Series to the academic community and general public, where experts on Cuba are invited to Tulane to discuss policy and other issues of interest.
Explore our site for more information on resources and organizational networking.
Programs
Programs
Presently, the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute operates Tulane’s Summer in Cuba Program, the first and largest undergraduate program ever nationally offered by a U.S. Center for Latin American Studies. The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute also offers speakers series, symposia, and conferences to the academic community and general public, where experts on Cuba and the Caribbean are invited to Tulane to discuss the culture, literature, visual arts, performance arts – particularly theatre and music, history, economics and other issues of interest. Reflecting our commitment to community outreach, these events are publicized on all major university campuses in New Orleans as well as in the non-academic community.
The Book Exchange and Donation Program is an area where the Institute is expanding its work. This program, operated in conjunction with the Latin American Library of Tulane University, exchanges and donates both fiction and non-fiction books as well as journals and other informational materials. Participating institutions include the University of Havana, the Echeverra Higher Polytechnic Institute, Cuban NGO’s, professional associations and other members of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute’s network of collaborating institutions in Cuba.
Other activities of the Institute include advising, and facilitating travel licensing for professors and graduate students engaged in work in Cuba. The Institute also supports Tulane graduate student fellowships for research in Cuba and the Caribbean. These grants assist in covering airfare and/or lodging expenses during research projects in the area. The Institute works closely with numerous other units of Tulane University to develop, facilitate and implement Cuba-related projects. For example, the Institute has facilitated the efforts of the Tulane School of Law in its work on waterways conservation, environmental impact studies and information sharing with the Directorate of Environmental Policy.
The Institute has also facilitated collaborative research on the development of laws concerning the environment and bio-diversity issues. The Institute works with the School of Architecture in the Cuba-related aspects of their Master of Preservation Studies, which involves extensive study of Cuban architectural preservation efforts throughout the island as well as consultation on neighborhood revitalization efforts in Havana. The Cuba Working Group forms another area of activity of the Institute. The purpose of the working group is to bring together faculty and graduate students from Tulane and other universities to discuss and conduct research concerning Cuba. The objective is to stimulate research while examining issues of mutual interest and concern. This approach also allows participants to move beyond the seminar format and to develop and pursue direct research collaboration, similar to that typically characterizing training in the natural sciences. The working group unites scholars in different fields who together determine the precise focus of their research and training, such as political economy, gender issues, the environment, religious change, and culture. The group is funded by the Institute to pay for research assistance, materials and outside speakers.
