Due to little change in the lack of diversity in the Geosciences, a summer camp for girls was created, designed, organized, and implemented by PhD student Aida Guhlincozzi, a Geography major and Latina/Latino Studies minor, and Geology PhD candidate Julia Cisneros.
Moisés Contreras Heads to Italy on a Fulbright
Training Students in Immigration Law
More than a haircut: Father and transgender son Zeke Acosta
Summer Camp for Girls in the Geosciences
The U.S. Census and the Citizenship Question
RICANNESS: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance
Our former student outreach coordinator and recent LLS major alum Zeke Acosta was featured on "Good Morning America" about being transgender and the support from his father and family.
How are artists, activists, and communities resetting the colonial clock? What does it mean to reinterpret political actions as insurgent performances? How might we transform the collaborative possibilities of scholarly work?
More Department News
- The Department invites applications for teaching assistantships for the 2020-2021 academic year. For more information, visit https://lls.illinois.edu/award/teaching-assistantships.
- Daissy Dominguez (Class of 2010, Political Science major) of the Dominguez Legal Justice Center has been an amazing mentor to several of our Latina/Latino Studies majors over the years, providing students with hands-on experience working on immigration legal cases.
Calendar
LLS 357Examines Latina/o, Asian-American, African-American, and Indigenous stories of displacement, (im)migration, and settlement.
LLS 238Focuses on the history and theory of Latina/o social movements.
