Jorge Coronado awarded a 2025 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society

Jorge Coronado, Director of Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Professor of Andean and Latin American Literatures, has been awarded a 2025 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (APS). Founded in 1743, the APS is the oldest learned society in the United States and is dedicated to the purpose of “promoting useful knowledge.” The Franklin Grant Program is particularly designed to support the costs of travel to libraries and archives and other expenses associated with on-site research. The grant will support research over the summer of 2025.

Coronado will advance work on the book project “Indigeneity and Textuality in Latin America, 1890-1970” by visiting the library of the International Institute for Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. The IISG holds the most important collections in the world of leftist and other publications, particularly periodicals. While at the IISG library, Coronado will consult socialist, communist, anarchist, and other magazines and newspapers published in the central Andean region and other parts of Latin America from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century.