2026-09-03
- An interdisciplinary group of faculty members, including faculty from the Department of Latina/Latino Studies, have received a grant from the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to study sanctuary spaces and borderlands. Their first event is on October 8.
News
2026-09-02 - Mirelsie Velázquez, associate chair and associate professor of Latina/Latino studies, has been selected for the 2026-2027 OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship.
2026-08-19 - Gerson Morales is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and a graduate minor in Latina/Latino studies. Read a Q&A with Morales to learn more about his research.
2026-08-10 - Saraí Blanco Martinez co-authored new pedagogical research that identifies four key practices for creating a trauma-informed and healing-centered classroom.
2026-07-29 - Latina/Latino studies professor Aja Y. Martinez and gender and women's studies professor and Latina/Latino studies affiliate Damian Vergara Bracamontes are two of eleven faculty members across campus to receive the Cohen Innovation Award from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and...
2026-05-27 - A new collection of essays co-edited by Angharad N. Valdivia, emerita professor of Latina/Latino studies and the Institute of Communications Research, with alumnae Jillian M. Báez (PhD, ’09, communications) and Diana Leon-Boys (PhD, ’20, communications and media studies, Latina/Latino studies minor...
2026-05-27 - Latina/Latino studies professor Janett Barragán Miranda was awarded funding from the Campus Research Board’s Multiracial Democracy program for her project “From the Streets to the Laboratories: How the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1982-1984) Impacted the Latina/o/x Community.”
2026-05-20 - Dr. Sean Ettinger, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies academic program coordinator, was honored with the 2026 Cathy Acevedo Faculty & Staff Award by La Casa Cultural Latina. The award recognizes faculty or staff who have shown extraordinary commitment to Latina/o students and the campus...
2026-04-27 - Congrats to the class of 2026!
2026-04-22 - Professor José A. de la Garza Valenzuela looks at the experiences of queer migrants, and at how immigration practices shape particular fictions about them, in his new book “Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions.”
2026-04-15 - Professor Natalie Lira was awarded the Humanities Research Lab Award by the Humanities Research Institute and Office of Undergraduate Research to transform the course LLS 100: Introduction to Latina/o Studies into a local community-based research experience.
2026-03-25 - This spring, the Department of Latina/Latino Studies welcomes assistant professor Elena Guzman. Professor Guzman's research studies ritual art and performance in the Afro-Caribbean. She also creates films that focus on the metaphysical and ethereal experiences of African diaspora spirituality. Read...
2026-03-04 - Q&A with Latina/Latino studies and anthropology alum C. Lucio, the executive assistant to the general superintendent for participatory budgeting at the Chicago Park District.
2026-03-03 - "Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes: (NYU Press) is edited by Isabel Molina-Guzmán, Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs in the College of LAS and professor of Latina/Latino studies and communication, and Angharad N. Valdivia, emerita professor of Latina...-
2026-02-25 - Professor Janett Barragán Miranda published a new essay in "California History" on the impact Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) agents have had on Latina/o street food vendors.