Two UCLA Luskin PhD students have been awarded fellowships through the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program.

Juan Carlos Jauregui of Social Welfare and Andrés F. Ramirez of Urban Planning are among 15 UCLA graduate students to be named Fulbright-Hays fellows, the most chosen from any research university nationwide for the fourth year.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Fulbright-Hays program allows doctoral candidates to study aspects of a society or societies, including their cultures, economy, history and international relations. UCLA’s 2024 Fulbright-Hays fellows come from diverse disciplines and will conduct their research in Colombia, Egypt, Guinea, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Nigeria, Spain and Taiwan.

Jauregui will study in the Amazonian region of Loreto, Peru. His research will explore intersectional stigma, mental health and HIV treatment engagement among LGBTQ+ young people living with HIV in Loreto. The project will prioritize knowledge that will improve community-based services and interventions that address the mental health and HIV care needs of this vulnerable population.

Ramirez will conduct fieldwork in Colombia. His research will examine how Indigenous struggles for urban citizenship challenge property regimes and reconfigure the relations between state and Indigenous people. Working alongside Indigenous urban communities in Bogotá, he will identify oppositional urban planning practices between the state and Indigenous groups, as well as forms of Indigenous sovereignty in the city.

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