Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson Receives Tinker Field Research Grant

Joint Anthropology-Linguistics PhD student Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson has received a Tinker Field Research grant to conduct pilot dissertation research in Buenos Aires, Argentina in summer 2016. The Tinker Foundation’s Field Research Grant program provides graduate students with funds for travel to and within Latin America to conduct pre-dissertation research. Mary-Caitlyn will be collecting sociolinguistic interviews of members of fan communities and attendees at Argentina ComiCon. Her dissertation focuses on language and identity of fans of English-language media in different sociolinguistic contexts.