Lara receives multiple fellowships
History Ph.D. Candidate Genesis Lara has received multiple prestigious fellowships to help fund her dissertation research.
Her dissertation project, titled "Revolutionary Dominicanidad: The Dominican Republic and the Caribbean Radical Imaginary," examines the intricacies of revolution, state repression and memory in the Cold War Caribbean through the prism of the Dominican revolutionary period and its aftermath (1961-1980). The awards include:
- IUPLR-UIC Mellon Fellows Program
- UC Davis Graduate Studies Dissertation Year Fellowship
- Latin American and Caribbean Collection, University of Florida Summer Travel Award
- Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Moody Research Grant
Lara is advised by Marian Schlotterbeck.