Doctoral Evidence

Acquisition (DEA)
Fellowship
Joseph Holbrook
Thursday, April 01, 2010
 Purpose of DEA Fellowship
 The Doctoral Evidence Acquisition (DEA)
Fellowship is intended to support doctoral
students who have no financial support for
evidence acquisition activities or those
students for whom their current means of
financial support would significantly
interfere their ability to collect the
evidence needed for their doctoral
research.
 Purpose of DEA Fellowship
 Evidence acquisition activities that might
be supported by the DEA Fellowship
include off-campus library or archive
research, field work, experiments
conducted off campus and off-campus
interviews.
 Purpose of DEA Fellowship
 The University Graduate School (UGS) will
make DEA Fellowship awards available
three times per year. DEA Fellowships
provide a stipend of $8,300 per term for
up to 3 semesters.
 Oral History
 There is an urgent need for new research using
oral history methods.
 The generation of students that first became
politically active in Brazil and Cuba in the 1950s
and during the early 1960s are aging and will
only be available for interviews for a few more
years.
 In five years, it will be nearly impossible to
preserve the oral histories of student
movements of this time period.
 Primary Sources
 Primary Documents (letters, conference
proceedings, bulletins and working
papers).
 Oral History - CEDIC
 Oral history audio recordings of interviews
carried out in 1988 through 1990 with 20
former members of JUC.
 Brazilian and Cuban Newspapers
 Correio do Povo (Porto Alegre) and
Correio da Manha (Rio de Janeiro) are
available on microfilm in the Latin
American collection at University of
Florida, Gainesville.
 Diario de la Marina, Diario de las Americas
and La Quincena are available on
microfilm at the University of Miami.
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 The first semester will be in the Archbishops
archives in Havana.
 I digital photos of 650 church documents in
2009 including official correspondence, student
bulletins, newspaper clippings, conference
proceedings, reports, and planning documents.
 I estimate that there another 2000 documents to
be examined that are related to this research.
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 The second semester will be spent at CEDIC at
the Catholic University in São Paulo.
 Last June I listened to, and transcribed 20 hours
of taped interviews.
 I will listen to an additional 50 hours of
interviews in Portuguese, transcribe them and
translate them into English. I will also examine
nearly 2000 documents, including the
correspondence of the national council, related
to JUC and JEC in Brazil.
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 The third semester will be spent in Miami and
Gainesville studying relevant documents,
including correspondence, working papers,
conference proceedings and monthly bulletins. I
will also be conducting interviews with former
members of JUC and JEC. These documentary
and audio sources are crucial to understanding
the transnational development of the Catholic
student movement during the Cold War and
comparing the process of politicization in Cuba
and Brazil.
 Budget
Monthly stipend and $18,564
tuition:
Research in Brazil $5,000

Research in Cuba $3,665

Total Research Costs $27,229

DEA Funding $25,000

Educational loans $2,229