The Faculty of Humanities (FAHU) at the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) secured 13 research projects in the 2026 Dicyt calls. These awards span the Regular, Postdoctoral, Early-Career, and Research Assistant categories. This success reaffirms FAHU’s leadership in interdisciplinary research, social innovation, and critical thinking, bridging the gap between academic knowledge and contemporary global issues.
These research funds are managed by the Office of Scientific and Technological Research (Dicyt USACH). As a key institutional unit, Dicyt periodically opens internal grant calls for faculty and researchers. These proposals support both new and ongoing research projects across the diverse academic disciplines at the University of Santiago de Chile.
The FAHU-funded projects encompass a broad spectrum of research areas, including historical and political analysis, linguistic and literary studies, and feminist and gender research. Additionally, the initiatives explore health and chronic pain, language education, and contemporary theater. A key highlight is the integration of digital humanities, utilizing computational tools to address contemporary societal challenges. Together, these projects represent high-impact research with both national and international significance.
This achievement represents a milestone for the Faculty, recognizing both established and emerging academic careers. Beyond individual recognition, this success provides a platform to enhance human capital development and collaborative research. By prioritizing open knowledge, the Faculty bridges the gap between the University of Santiago de Chile and the broader community, addressing contemporary challenges through rigorous scholarship.
Dicyt Regular:
-Patricio Pino Castillo (Department of Linguistics and Literature) Cognition and Oral Expression in English as a Foreign Language
-Sebastián Reyes Gil (Department of Linguistics and Literature) Queer Representations in Recent Andean Narrative
-Raquel Rubio Martín (Department of Linguistics and Literature) Analysis and Intervention Proposal Using Praat Software for the Acquisition of Japanese Pronunciation as a Second Language in Spanish-Speaking Students.
Dicyt Postdoctoral Fellowship
-Antoine Faure (School of Journalism) Voices in Conflict: Discursive Strategies of the Media, Experts, and Politicians in Interpreting the Chilean Social Uprising (2019–2025)
-Igor Goicovic Donoso (Department of History) Repression and Collaboration. Mechanisms and Strategies in the Dismantling of Political Violence in Transitional Chile, 1988–1996
-Claudio Pérez Silva (Department of History) “Neoliberalism Starts at Home.” Consumer Education and the Production of Feminine Subjectivities in Chile, 1974–1982
-Hernán Venegas Valdebenito (Department of History) Dockworkers and Machines. Worker Control, Employer Rationalization, and Containerization of Port Operations in Chile: 1970–1981
-Jessica Pujol Durán (Department of Linguistics and Literature – Sponsorship) Disturbing Material Scenarios: Object-Based Aesthetics in Contemporary Chilean Theater.
Dicyt Research Assistant
-Claudia Calquín Donoso (School of Psychology) Corpographies of Chronic Pain. A Sociomaterial Approach to Fibromyalgia in Chile
-Xochitl Inostroza Ponce (Department of History) Intersectionality in the Everyday Power of Andean Women in the Late-Colonial Andean South (1792–1813)
-Cristina Moyano Barahona (Department of History) Historicizing the Political Lexicon of Contemporary Feminism: A Biographical-Conceptual Dictionary
-Édinson Muñoz Arias (Department of Linguistics and Literature) Digital markers of speech and language in extrasylvian dysfunction in neurodegeneration.
Dicyt Initiation
-Marcos Cárdenas Mancilla (Department of Linguistics and Literature) Metonymic expressions in the Spanish-English bilingual lexicon: a machine learning study.