Awards Database

Awards Database

A key goal of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice is to forge stronger relationships between expertise and resources within Southwestern communities and those at the University of Arizona (UA) and encourage outstanding scholarship at the nexus of environment and social justice.

The Awards Database shared here offers a comprehensive record of awards the Haury Program has made to advance those collaborations and to recognize outstanding UA faculty and visiting associates.

Suggested Keywords: Seed Grant, Challenge Grant, Faculty Fellow, Visiting Associate, YWCA, UA, Sociology

Yaqui Ancestral Wheat & Foodways Project

Lead: Alvarez, Maribel (UA Southwest Center)
Partners: Yaqui Traditional Experts

  • Award Date: Jan 2016
  • Award Amount: $60,000
  • Type: Seed
  • Duration: 2 years
  • Status: Completed
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The collaborations between the traditional authorities of Pueblo Vicam in the Yaqui ancestral homeland, Rio Yaqui, Sonora, the Yoem Pueblo in Marana, Arizona and the Southwest Folklife Alliance designed and tested a pilot project for cross-national environmental and social development plan to link Yaqui territories in Sonora and the Tucson basin around the themes of food memory, food justice and food sovereignty. The project collected oral histories, conducted test planting of ancestral wheat varieties, established artisanal workshops and developed a market recovery strategic plan for Yaqui-owned and branded new artisanal wheat products.

Democracy on the Line: the political ecology of legal suspension in the U.S. southern boundary enforcement

Lead: Sundberg, Juanita (University of British Columbia)
Partners: School of Geography and Development

  • Award Date: Feb 2015
  • Award Amount: $12,490
  • Type: Visiting Associate
  • Duration: 12 weeks
  • Status: Completed
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Sundberg visited the University of Arizona to work with collaborators on challenges to the Southwest socio-natural environment growing out of contemporary strategies to enforce the US-Mexico political boundary. Sundberg conducted field work and interviews, and facilitated a panel discussion about border and REAL ID Act issues in September 2015 at the University of Arizona.

Early development of an inclusive approach for scenario-based resilience planning

Lead: Waple, Anne (Second Nature)
Partners: CCASS and Institute of the Environment

  • Award Date: Feb 2015
  • Award Amount: $5,000
  • Type: Visiting Associate
  • Duration: 4 weeks
  • Status: Completed
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Waple worked with faculty and students at the University of Arizona's Institute for the Environment and the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions to develop a set of ideas to form a foundation for collaborative teams to work on adaptation and resilience planning for the metropolitan Tucson area. These efforts included learning about existing planning efforts and local priorities, mini-workshops with City representatives and other stakeholders, and open lectures about resilience efforts.