University of California Berkeley student Andrea Marston was awarded a Tinker Field Research Grant through Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies in the summer of 2013 for travel throughout Bolivia's mining regions. A Ph.D. student in the department of Geography, Andrea traveled to Bolivia to test possible disssertation topics exploring the role of underground mining cooperatives in the economic and political landscape of the altiplano, the high Andean plateau that runs along the western edge of Bolivia.
