Director's Welcome

Bienvenidos! Welcome! Founded in 1996, the Latina/Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is now one of the nation's exemplary interdisciplinary programs in the field of U.S. ethnic and race studies. Our internationally recognized faculty spans the fields of queer and sexuality studies, education, literature, history, media studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and health policy, among many others. The program currently offers more than 30 undergraduate and graduate courses per year, houses two post-doctoral fellowships, and organizes a national biannual conference featuring graduate student work. Together our students and faculty are re-imagining the frontiers of Latina/o Studies with their comparative work on diverse Latina/o communities and cutting-edge scholarship on immigration, citizenship, social movements, contemporary media, literature and cinema.